Protests continued Monday against the Trump administration’s plans to narrow the legal definition of gender to an individual’s biological sex at birth. In Washington, D.C., demonstrators gathered outside the White House to denounce the proposed rollback of transgender rights, as the hashtag #WontBeErased trended on social media. This is activist Aryah Lester of the National Minority AIDS Council.

Aryah Lester: “No words, no action can erase me and those who stand here with me, as well. We must end willful ignorance in this country. We must end the use of bigotry to frame government policy.”