Pogrom!

All around the country there is an organized movement against us to wipe us out of existence!

CT trans community and Trump orders: Government is in ‘conflict with their existence’: advocate

The Hartford Courant

By Elijah Polance | UConn Journalism

March 14, 2026

In the year since President Donald Trump took office, he has signed five executive orders directed toward the transgender community.  

Framed as protections for women and children, the orders target recognition and inclusion of transgender individuals in federally funded programs and schools.

The first order said the federal government will only recognize “male” and “female” as acceptable genders, based on one’s sex assigned at birth – affecting a variety of things from prison and immigration detention to U.S. passports. A pair of orders targeted what the Trump administration called “gender ideology” in public schools and other organizations.

Connecticut is still a safe harbor for trans people

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Still, transgender people and allies in Connecticut say the orders have made the lives of transgender people more difficult and makes it feel as if their own government is against their existence.

We have been pretty good with Democrat governors but... but... the state is really a purple state. Unlike many states the legislature is just about 50/50, neither party have enough votes to override a veto.

In the 2025 session, the Republicans introduced bills that:

• Would have banned gender-affirming medical care for minors,
• A “parental rights” bills requiring parents to be told of their transgender child,
• A book banding legislation,
• An anti-trans sports bill.

We are only one elections away from becoming like Texas or Florida!

William Tong, attorney general for Connecticut, joined a lawsuit with other states to stop the executive order from going into effect. He said it was among the many policies the Trump administration has used that are “all about intimidation and anticipatory compliance.”

“If you marginalize people, if you deny them health care, if you call them names, if you say that they’re illegitimate, if you say that their concerns are not real, if you say it’s a lifestyle choice and not a medical factor condition, if you say that the health care that are provided is not actually health care, if you do all of those things, not only do you marginalize people — which in and of itself causes fear and anxiety — but you empower other people to go after them,” Tong said in an interview.

Here is a problem I see: people are no longer following mainstream media.

I was with a group of transgender people, from young to old. What I heard from the younger generation was that Gov. Lamont is anti-trans.

Why?

Because he “allowed” trans care centers to close.

When it was pointed out that it was Trump & Company cutting Medicaid and Medicare funding, they still believed the governor could have done something to keep them open. What, exactly, was he supposed to do?

When I was an executive director, we participated in a series of town halls. Over and over again, I heard people say we needed to pass a non-discrimination bill. But we already had passed it two years earlier. The majority of attendees didn’t even know the law existed.

That means people are missing the progress that has been made here in this state.

I see our job as education:

Educate the public about who we are, and educate our own community about the protections we already have. Maybe that means something as simple as posters listing the laws.

And it’s our job to know those laws—for two reasons:

• First, so we understand when we are protected.
• Second, so we understand where the gaps in those protections still exist.