Adrian Connor

After a slow start, demonstrations against President Donald Trump are picking up — in both size and location. On April 5, more than 100,000 demonstrators filled the National Mall in Washington, D.C. — part of the largest nationwide protest yet of Trump’s second term. The protest in the nation’s capital was one of more than 1,400 protests across the country, with future protests in the works.

“Yes, amazing organizers, yes! Yes, affirming trans kids, yes!” A group of organizers chanted on a warm February night outside a Manhattan elementary school after leaving a chaotic, hourslong education council meeting. Gathered in support of trans and nonbinary students, they are the Coalition of Aunties & Friends for Liberation, also referred to as Aunties & Friends: activists, parents, educators, students, and allies—many of them queer and transgender.