Considering Protesting At Your State Capitol 50501? Here are The Deets

We The People will be protesting Trump's destruction of the federal government at State Capitols across the country on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

"This is what beginning of dictatorship looks like" - Ilhan Omar on Elon Musk and Trump
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Some folks hesitate to attend because of the decentralized nature of the protest and concern for their well-being. I was too until I participated at the Keep Families Together protest in my city of Arlington Texas. It changed me for life. Driving home I felt like I left my family there.

BREAKING: Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos revealed in a press release Tuesday that he is the founding force behind 50501, the National Day of Protest Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

The 50501 protest was conceived just ten days ago and has grown into a nationwide movement. It is in response to the fascist takeover of the federal government by Trump and his Project 2025 sycophant oligarchs.

To read more about it, where permits have been secured and start times, visit WE The People sub Reddit r/50501:

Demands

•  For Donald J. Trump to step down or be removed from the presidency through impeachment or other means.
• Conduct mass investigations into politicians appointed by Donald J. Trump.
• Investigate Elon Musk's role within the US government and take appropriate action if any federal or state laws are found to be violated.
•  Overturn or rescind executive orders that infringe on citizen and human rights.
• Strengthen laws on hate speech, including banning displays of Nazi propaganda or salutes.
• Reinstate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) frameworks to promote better conditions for all citizens.

If you can't make to your state capitol look for local protests like this one in Arlington Texas sponsored by the Tarrant County Democratic Party.

I was there proudly waving our transgender flag to support our immigrant community. Trump has begun imprisoning deportees in camps, and most horrifyingly, flights have begun transporting detainees to Guantánamo Bay. As a great-grandchild of refugees who fled Germany with the destruction of the Weimar Republic, I DO NOT CONSENT.

I DO NOT CONSENT to the wholesale destruction of our planet

I DO NOT CONSENT to the stripping away of our body autonomy, our body sovereignty

I DO NOT CONSENT to the targeting and dehumanization of our LGBTQ+ community

I DO NOT CONSENT to ripping apart our immigrant neighbors from their children and their homes

I DO NOT CONSENT to the systematic theft of our labor and our time

I DO NOT CONSENT to the censorship of our speech

I DO NOT CONSENT to extorting our wealth in return for our health

I DO NOT CONSENT to the destruction of the wall between church and state

I DO NOT CONSENT to making allies of our enemies and our enemies into allies

I DO NOT CONSENT to living under the boot of a Fascist regime and unelected oligarchs.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

- The Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776

Trump issues Executive Order Restricting Trans Youth Health Care

Harmeet Dhillon. (2025, January 30). Wikipedia

Donald Trump's executive orders restricting gender affirmative care come as dystopian changes have been made to the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division.

Trump's nominee to lead the assault against trans-affirming care is attorney Harmeet Dhillon, 56, who has spoken out against state laws that protect doctors who provide gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

Harmeet Dhillon believes that "Title IX was passed by Congress to protect women's rights—not the rights of men pretending to be women."

"Title IX was passed by Congress to protect women's rights—not the rights of men pretending to be women." @pnjaban breaks down the latest lawsuits against President Biden's new Title IX rules👇 pic.twitter.com/gfC9GjeyPF

— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) April 30, 2024

Erin Reed as promised weighed in on Donald Trump's Executive Order banning Trans Youth Care.

The Conversation U.S. interviewed Elana Redfield, federal policy director at the Williams Institute, an independent research center at the UCLA School of Law dedicated to studying sexual orientation and gender identity law. She describes the aims of the executive order, how much weight it carries, and how it should be understood in the broader context of legal battles over access to gender-affirming care.

Some key takeaways

The scope of the Executive Order

• Twenty-six states have already restricted gender-affirming care for minors or banned it outright. So the order seeks to extend restrictions to the rest of the country using the weight of the executive branch. However, it’s not a national ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Instead, it’s directing federal agencies to regulate and restrict this form of care.

Does the executive branch have the authority to unilaterally ban federal funding of certain medical treatments?

• The answer is a little mixed. A president might be able to suspend or put a temporary pause on funding a particular type of treatment or service. But the actual parameters of a program – and how agencies should implement them – are determined by Congress and, to some extent, by the courts.

Do private health insurers fall outside the scope of this executive order?

• On the surface, yes. But it’s easy to see how directives from the executive branch can touch broader components of the country’s health care system, including private hospitals and private health insurance.
• For example, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act is a nondiscrimination provision. It says there can be no sex discrimination when it comes to approving health care treatments. This has been interpreted to mean that health insurance plans receiving federal funding cannot deny a policyholder gender-affirming care. However, this interpretation has been blocked by a federal court.

The Conversation has a coveted "Least Biased" rating from Media Bias Fact Check.

Trump’s executive orders can make change – but are limited and can be undone by the courts. First and foremost is U.S. v. Skrmetti presently being decided by the Supreme Court.

The question in this case is whether Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming hormone therapies for transgender minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution. Tennessee’s ban, like every other passed by politicians in recent years, specifically permits these same hormone medications when they are provided in a way that Tennessee considers “consistent” with a person’s sex designated at birth. This means, for example, a doctor could prescribe estrogen to a cisgender teenage girl for any clinical diagnosis but could not do the same for a transgender girl diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

The ACLU argues that Tennessee’s ban is a clear example of discrimination on the basis of sex and transgender status making it a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. We made a similar argument in 2020 when, alongside other legal advocates, we successfully argued in front of the Supreme Court on behalf of LGBTQ clients fired because of their sexual orientation and gender identity, including a transgender woman fired from her job at a Michigan funeral home.