Since President Trump re-entered the White House, his administration has moved to restrict rights for transgender people,

from transition-related medical care for youth to sports participation to identity markers on passports.

William Brangham has an update on these actions, the legal challenges to them, and what may come next.

LGBTQ-plus advocates say that many of President Trump's policies present a critical threat

to the roughly 1% of Americans, that is, some 2.8 million people who identify as transgender.

So for a closer look at some of these moves, we are joined by Alejandra Carabayo.

She's a transgender activist and civil

rights attorney who teaches at Harvard Law School's Cyber Law Clinic. Welcome to the News

Hour. Thank you for having me. After Trump won the election, you told the Harvard Crimson

that these next four years would be really just a matter of survival.

How has that survival been going?

It's been incredibly difficult.

The Trump administration has taken a whole of government approach to target the trans

community and everything from how we're able to identify ourselves on identity documents,

to how we obtain our health care, to even where we go to the bathroom, and even

the ability to serve in the military.

And so for the entirety of the trans community, it really has become a matter of survival,

and that survival has been incredibly difficult.

When you're talking to people in the community and people who are supporters and allies, do they share that same sense of dread as to what's going on?

Absolutely. I think a lot of allies are incredibly concerned with what's happening.

But I think at the same time, it's difficult because there is so much happening.

We're kind of only one small part of everything that is happening between the assaults

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