Several hundred people turned out for a "Do Not Comply" rally against President Donald Trump and his administration's anti-trans agenda. Since Trump took office in January, he has issued several executive orders affecting the trans community, including a ban on military service, ban on trans women and girls playing on female sports teams, and an order doing away with "gender ideology," stating there are only two sexes, male and female, which are defined at conception. Transgender and queer language has also been removed from the websites of national monuments, such as Stonewall in New York City. The March 1 protest was held at Turk and Taylor streets in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, which was the site of the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria riots against police harassment. The building that once housed Gene Compton's Cafeteria was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places, the property granted such status specifically for its connection to the transgender movement in the U.S. The rally also honored recent trans people lost to violence, including Sam Nordquist, Tahiry Broom, and Ra'Lasia Wright. The rally was organized by the TurkxTaylor Initiative, El/La TransLatinas, TGI Justice Project, Trans March, Gay Shame, and others.
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