The reelection of Donald Trump has left many transgender and nonbinary people across the US feeling a sense of unease — and sometimes outright fear — that his administration will accelerate the yearslong conservative campaign for states to block gender-affirming care, which is headed to the Supreme Court next month. The GOP made gender a building block of its 2024 platform, and Trump has vowed to enact a slew of federal restrictions on trans youth and adults — piling on the wave of anti-trans laws that are already being passed and proposed at the state level.
In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, CNN sent disposable cameras to 10 transgender and nonbinary people across the US to document all aspects of their lives.
• Taylor Alxndr: The 31-year-old has become a fixture of Atlanta’s drag scene and cofounded the nonprofit Southern Fried Queer Pride. It’s one of the organizations already mobilizing ahead of Trump’s inauguration, hoping to help transgender Southerners get access to hormone replacement therapy, name and gender changes before January.“These last eight years from both administrations and all the powers that be have just really exhausted trans people,” Alxndr said, noting that even under President Joe Biden, conservative lawmakers have pushed a wave of anti-trans laws. “Looking to the next four years, it just feels even more exhausting. Like, ‘What’s next? What’s the next hurdle that we have to go through?’”
