The City of Worcester Is the Latest To Defy Trump by Becoming a Transgender Sanctuary City
Massachusetts’ second-largest city votes 9-2 to protect gender-diverse individuals.

With the Trump administration reversing several transgender rights policies, a small number of cities are responding to the new executive orders by declaring themselves “Sanctuary Cities” for those changing genders.
The most recent municipality to join the fray is Worcester, Massachusetts, where the city council held a 9-2 vote to declare themselves as a sanctuary city for gender-diverse individuals. The move came during a recent city council meeting packed to capacity with more than 200 people in attendance to throw their support behind the measure, which was drafted a month after Councilor-at-Large Thu Nguyen, who is the first non-binary member of the city’s board, claimed to be harassed and misgendered by other city officials, according to CBS News.
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