•There are fears that more GOP-governed states will approve legislation limiting transgender rights and will reject proposals to expand such rights. Transgender people “are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,” said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues. Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, was cautiously optimistic that the military’s new policy would survive. During the presidential campaign, Trump sent mixed signals about his approach to transgender rights. Dru Levasseur, Transgender Rights Project director for the LGBT-rights group Lambda Legal, said postelection worries were particularly intense among transgender youths and immigrants, and transgender people of colour.

Source: thestar November 20, 2016 23:24 UTC