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The Trump administration has targeted transgender people as a central tenet of its approach to government. Soon after Donald Trump鈥檚 inauguration, transgender American citizens who tried to found that the government was insisting on misgendering them. Trump has also from serving in the U.S. military and that allow transgender students to participate in athletics.

Such attacks have serious consequences, including influencing people once thought to be allies to transgender people, such as California Governor . Newsom, who has been interviewing right-wing, pro-Trump white supremacists on his new podcast, recently declared his opposition to transgender students participating in athletics.

A transgender college student from Southern California who is studying art history at a university on the East Coast spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the seriousness of Trump鈥檚 attacks. He used the pseudonym 鈥淥wen鈥� to protect his identity for fear of retaliation.聽