Donald Trump’s massive landslide victory is a crushing defeat for women, migrants, religious and racial minorities, and especially for the transgender community.

Armed with the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling and with the mandate he received from a conservative electorate, the second Trump administration promises to be a bleak period for transgender Americans.

Transgender women should brace themselves for attacks from the White House and a slate of anti-trans legislation from the GOP controlled House and Senate.

Trump mercilessly mocked transwomen in his hate filled MAGA rallies, and his presidential campaign spent millions on ads attacking the trans community. This anti-trans messaging has already done incalculable harm to this disenfranchised community, but the worst is yet to come.

Why all this hate directed at a marginalized community that makes up less than one percent of the population? Trump used anti-trans hysteria as a wedge issue to consolidate his support from the evangelical community.

I am not trans, gay or bisexual, but I am an American who believes that we should all be treated with love and respect. The greatness of a democracy is manifest when we treat our religious, racial, political, and sexual minorities the same as everyone else.

Today I am trans, and I call on all freedom-loving Americans to identify with the trans community, and to stand by them.

It’s time to stop crying over the devastating election results, and time to start planning how we can protect the rights of the LGBT community under the fascist Trump regime.