For the second time in as many weeks, U. Minnesota far-left student activists marched through campus to denounce Donald Trump’s election victory.
They also spoke about the “Transgender Day of Remembrance.”
The UMN Students for a Democratic Society, joined by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee and Asians For Palestine, among other things protested Trump’s alleged policies for “rolling back” rights for transgender individuals, The Minnesota Daily reports.
These “rollbacks” include prohibiting transgender students to play on sports teams aligning with their identity, and the use of restrooms based on same.
Jess Braverman of the group Gender Justice claimed Trump might also ban the “changing [of] names and pronouns on official educational documents.”
Trump also has spoken in favor of a law banning what he deemed the “sexual mutilation” of minors (what others refer to as “gender-affirming care”).
The UMN activists “highlighted” aspects of Trump’s first term being “hard on minority and LGBTQ+ communities (no examples were given by the Daily other than the above), and in honor of the Transgender Day of Remembrance one SDS speaker talked about her transgender friend’s suicide.
“Far too many trans lives are lost each year,” the speaker said. “Trans people are subjected to higher murder rates, and suicide is far too common.”
Other worries were Trump’s possible implementation of Project 2025 (which “could make life much harder for many Americans”), and his “past scandals and controversy.”
The SDS’s Freyja Wolfe “emphasized the value [of] the voices of a student body” (her own referred to Trump as a “transphobic, homophobic, classist, racist asshole”), and told the crowd that, despite Trump’s victory, they “have power […] specifically on this campus.”
Wolfe had been arrested earlier in the year during an anti-Israel protest and told CBS News that, even though she used the term “genocide” with regards to Israel’s actions, she didn’t “actually fully understand” its definition.
“[B]ut I have seen a lot of experts call it that,” she said.
SDS member Isaac Stets said the UMN anti-Trump protests “are not ending anytime soon.”
“We’re going to be putting effort into keeping our presence for the winter,” Stets said. “I know that’s an issue in a lot of organizing, and we’re very committed to keeping the energy flowing in any way possible while innovating new tactics to do that.”
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