I have watched in horror over the past three weeks as Donald Trump has tried, with a great deal of success, to roll back decades of progress in human rights for LGBTQIA+, underrepresented, marginalized, poor, and otherwise disadvantaged people throughout the United States.
What has been most horrifying to me is not the craven depravity of Trump's executive orders—this I expected, and anyone who didn't either wasn't paying attention or was in denial—but rather the rapidity with which so many public and private institutions to me have thrown in the towel.
Hospitals ending gender-affirming care, universities stripping DEI from their web sites, corporations shutting down DEI programs, the NFL removing "end racism" from its on-field paint… Whether these institutions are too cowardly to do the right thing and stand up to Trump, or merely showing their true colors now that they have air cover from the government, the impact is the same: real people suffering, real people erased from society.
You have two roles to play in pushing back against this:
(1) Obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. There should be no unanimous consent, no streamlined movement of bills through Congress, no unchallenged procedural step in the degradation of our rights.
(2) Get the word out to the people of this country about what's happening and make sure they know Trump and the GOP are to blame. Humanize it, personalize it, find real stories of real people who are suffering. Don't let people look away.
We need you in the fight.
Thank you.
