Vidya Sethuraman
India Post News Service
In a roundtable discussion, speakers at EMS news brief discussed the policy implications of President Trump’s executive order, the impact on their lives, and attempts to push back. The executive orders issued by President Trump so far include restricting gender-affirming healthcare for transgender people under the age of 19; banning transgender people from joining the military; canceling DEI programs (diversity, equality, etc.) in government, military and other institutions. The President’s executive order has deep, adverse impacts for the nation’s 1.6 million transgender people. It essentially erases transgender people’s existence in legal matters, healthcare, and education sites. The move comes amid a rise in hate crimes against transgender people.
Jordan Willow Evans, Executive Committee, MassEquality said she is a transgender Republican. She said that these executive orders of Trump were formed under the promotion of a small group of people and do not represent the opinions of Americans.
Ilan H. Meyer, Ph.D., Williams Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute and Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University believes that the Trump administration’s executive order targeting LGBTQ+ is “cruel.” He said anyone who knows transgender people knows their journey is an extremely stressful experience because of the harassment they can experience.
Bamby Salcedo, President and CEO of the TransLatina Coalition said they can implement whatever policies they want and can, but they are not going to defeat who we are as people. We hope to empower, above all, young people who feel afraid and insecure and I remind them that we stand on the men of warriors with great strength and we are going to prevail and continue being who we are.
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