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“Trans youth know who they are” is a pithy slogan used by many health advocates; a declaration that transgender and gender diverse (trans) adolescents understand their identities with the same strength as their cisgender peers, meaning their peers who are not trans. This slogan affirms the role trans youth may have as epistemic peers in matters related to their identities and the decisions made in collaboration with their families and medical professionals, in accessing medic

No single action of the Trump Administration can be understood in isolation; only the larger context of the administration's genocidal campaign against trans people. Its actions may deploy mechanisms of statecraft, regulatory actions, and policy construction, but they are never so simple as regulatory or policy changes. They have always already been part of a crusade undertaken to push transgender people out of public life, a promise that the president himself campaigned on [

Citations Adams, R. (2025, March 31). Trump makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘Setting us back decades.’ The Guardian . https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-hiv-research-grant-cuts AFP. (2025, March 11). Arrest of pro-Palestinian activist sparks outrage, Trump says “first of many.”  France 24. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250311-arrest-of-pro-palestinian-activist-sparks-outrage-trump-says-first-of-many Ainsworth, C. (2018,