Transgender people are less than 1% of the US population. Yet they’re a political lightning rod

“What he wants is to scare us into being invisible again,” said Rachel Crandall Crocker, the executive director of Transgender Michigan who organized the first Day of Visibility 16 years ago. “We have to show him we won’t go back.”
- April 4, 2025

HARD COPY: Geoff Mulvihill and Jesse Bedayn of the Associated Press explore how the safety and well-being of trans people has been sensationalized and weaponized in politics as of late, particularly by the Trump administration. They begin to piece together some reasons as to how and why “this small population found itself with such an […]