Christian Fuscarino, Executive Director of Garden State Equality sits down with Steve Adubato to discuss the impact of President Trump’s executive orders on the LGBTQ+ community and how Garden State Equality is working to protect transgender rights in New Jersey.

As part of the conversation, they discuss the executive order, issued by President Trump on January 20th, which mandates that the federal government only recognize two genders: male and female. As a result, the State Department removed the "X" gender marker option from passports. Fuscarino says, "Why it's an issue for the president that he felt the need to address it on day one, I'm not sure. But it certainly caused a lot of chaos in the community and for federal and local government workers who need to look at identification and know who they're speaking with. Now we have documentation in some situations where it doesn't match the gender of the person that they're speaking with, and so what this really is at its base is an eraser of the transgender identity. It's an eraser of an entire group of people, and we haven't seen this type of behavior since Nazi Germany."