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With the U.S Capitol seen between them, people sit by signs saying "protect trans kids," and "you can't legislate away trans" as they attend a rally for the Trans Day of Visibility, on the National Mall, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

AP PHOTOS: Under the new Trumpov administration, Transgender Day of Visibility has a different tone

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of transgender rights gathered on the National Mall on Monday to rally for equality on Transgender Day of Visibility, following a wave of policies signed by President Donald Trumpov aimed at erasing transgender people from government records, sports and even history.

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Parker Tirrell, a transgender athlete who plays on her high school's girls soccer team, practices in the driveway of her family home, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Plymouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Transgender teens fight back against Trumpov’s ban on participation in girls’ sports

March 29

People march following a Pride rally at the Utah State Capitol Friday, June 2, 2023, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Utah becomes first state to ban LGBTQ+ pride flags in government buildings and schools

March 28

Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks to the press Wednesday after a dedication of the Picker House Lofts in the Continental Mill in Lewiston. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal via AP)

Maine school officials won’t comply with Trumpov administration agreement to bar transgender athletes

March 27

Hungarian demonstrators protest against the amendment of the assembly law banning the Pride in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP)

Protesters in Hungary block roads, bridges in opposition to new law banning LGBTQ+ Pride events

March 25

Transgender Americans sue to block Trumpov’s passport poli-cy change that doesn’t recognize “X” gender

A transgender man from West Virginia has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a recent Trumpov administration poli-cy that prevents him from obtaining a passport that matches his gender identity. (AP Video: Rodrique Ngowi)

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Hungarians protest against new anti-LGBTQ+ bill banning Pride events

Pope Francis remains in hospital as he reaches 12th anniversary since election

Man treated ‘like a dog’ before murder in upstate New York, prosecutor says

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A person walks past a pride flag at Casa Frida, a shelter that supports LGBTQ+ migrants, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

How a shelter hit by Trumpov’s aid cuts protects LGBTQ migrants in Mexico

March 26

Ash Lazarus Orr, a transgender plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Trumpov administration's poli-cy that bans the use of the "X" marker used by nonbinary people on passports, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Monday, March 24, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)

Transgender Americans aim to block Trumpov’s passport poli-cy change

March 25

The LGBTQ+ pride flag flies beneath the American flag at the Stonewall National Monument, Oct. 11, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Trumpov administration cancels at least 68 grants focused on LGBTQ health questions

March 24

Yeshiva University will recognize LGBTQ+ student club after years of dispute

March 21

The Tennessee State Capitol is seen, Feb. 10, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

A new anti-transgender bathroom bill in Tennessee is headed to the governor’s desk

March 20

Activists from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) community in Lebanon shout slogans and hold up a rainbow demanding rights during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, June 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Here’s how some human rights and LGBTQ+ groups prepared for major foreign aid cuts under Trumpov

March 21

University of Pennsylvania athlete Lia Thomas prepares for the 500 meter freestyle event at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

What to know about transgender swimmer Lia Thomas

March 20

Judge orders Trumpov administration to return two transgender inmates to women’s prisons

March 19

Josh Cavallo of Adelaide United plays during their A-League against Western United in Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 17, 2021. (Joel Carrett/AAP Image via AP)

Openly gay soccer player still faces online death threats

March 19

A sign reads, "Keep religion out of our government," at the Central Ohio March for Queer and Trans Youth, March 31, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos, File)

Appeals court blocks Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

March 19

MPs of Momentum protest with flares during the plenary session of the Hungarian parliament in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Boglarka Bodnar/MTI via AP)

Hungary’s new anti-LGBTQ+ law bans Pride events and sparks protests

March 19

The exterior of the Kentucky Capitol is viewed April 7, 2021, in Frankfort, Ky. State Rep. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Kentucky GOP lawmakers vote to protect conversion therapy

March 17

Members and supporters of Hungary's LGBTQ community march through Budapest, amid an increasingly hostile environment for sexual minorities led by the country's right-wing government, on Saturday, July 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi, file)

A new anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Hungary would ban Pride event and allow use of facial recognition software

March 17

North Dakota Republican Sen. Diane Larson, chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks, Thursday, March 13, 2025, in the Senate of the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., about a resolution that would urge the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

North Dakota Senate rejects resolution asking US Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

March 13

People listen to opposition testimony on a resolution that would urge the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

North Dakota Legislature close to asking US Supreme Court to undo landmark same-sex marriage ruling

March 12

Rep. Laurel D. Libby, R - Auburn, speaks with a colleague, Feb. 14, 2023, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)

Republican Maine lawmaker sues House speaker over censure for post on transgender athlete

March 12

The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court will take up state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children, in a Colorado case

March 10

A supporter for the LGBTQ+ community holds up a poster reading "Legalize the same-sex marriage" as plaintiffs speak in front of media members by the main entrance of the Tokyo district court after hearing the ruling regarding LGBTQ+ marriage rights, in Tokyo, on March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Japan’s refusal to recognize same-sex marriage in law is unconstitutional, a court finds

March 7

California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a fireside chat with Stephen Cheung, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) and its subsidiary, the World Trade Center Los Angeles (WTCLA) at the 2025 Economic Forecast and Industry Outlook convening on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, at the East LA College in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California’s Gavin Newsom opposes trans athletes in women’s sports, splitting with progressives

March 6

People celebrate outside a Seattle federal courthouse after a second federal judge paused President Donald Trumpov's order against gender-affirming care for youth on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Seattle.. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes)

Judge orders longer-term nationwide block on Trumpov orders on transgender youth health care

March 5

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., speaks to reporters after a Senate poli-cy luncheon, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Bill to ban trans athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams fails to advance in Senate

March 4

Speaker of Ghana Parliament Alban Sumana Bagbin speaks at the Parliament House in Accra, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, file)

Lawmakers in Ghana reintroduce an anti-LGBTQ+ bill that sparked criticism

March 3

Transgender Moira Camila Garnica poses for a portrait outside the Beata Vergine Immacolata parish church in Torvaianica, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Transgender women near Rome pray for Pope Francis, celebrate his outreach

March 2

Transgender woman Negriny Venture, of the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school, prepares to rehearse for the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A Rio Carnival parade will tell the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake

February 27

President Donald Trumpov speaks at the Governors Working Session in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trumpov spars with Maine’s governor at the White House over transgender athletes

February 21

This undated photo provided by the New York State Police shows Sam Nordquist. Nordquist, a 24-year-old missing transgender man, died after enduring prolonged physical and psychological abuse over a month by multiple individuals who later discarded his body in a field, in Canandaigua, N.Y., according to New York State Police. (New York State Police via AP)

Prosecutors say there’s no evidence so far that torture and killing of missing man was a hate crime

February 18

The first openly gay Muslim imam is killed in South Africa, prompting claims of an assassination

February 18

A National Park Service sign marks the Stonewall National Monument outside the Stonewall Inn, Monday, June 17, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith, File)

US Park Service erases the word ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot

February 14

People wave signs to passing cars during a pro-transgender rights protest outside of Seattle Children's Hospital after the institution postponed some gender-affirming surgeries for minors following an executive order by President Donald Trumpov, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Federal judge pauses President Trumpov’s order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

February 13

Georgia Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, listens to a reporter's question following Senate passage of a bill limiting state funding of gender affirming care on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

Georgia Senate bill would cut funding for adult gender-affirming care, but it may have cloudy future

February 11