Hundreds of advocates gathered on the Capitol steps in Olympia on Monday, urging lawmakers to restore funding for reproductive health care, transgender services and crime victim programs. The rally brought together organizations from across Washington for Planned Parenthood’s Lobby Day and Gender Justice League’s annual Trans Advocacy Day.

Under Donald Trump’s control, federal agents are using a surveillance tool to learn where immigrants, trans people, and abortion seekers live, work, and go to school. They’re called automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and may be watching from a street near you.

“He’s an oligarch,” said Danni Askini, executive director of Washington’s Gender Justice League. “He’s spending millions and millions of his own money backing these measures about trans people, but a year ago, he was pushing something else. He’s a political opportunist.”

A far-right political action committee says it has collected enough signatures to potentially get a trans sports ban onto Washington state’s ballot in November, and that ban would require girls to undergo physical examinations to participate in school sports.

The initiative collected 400,000 signatures, and will be one of the first major attempts to get an anti-trans law onto the ballot in a state that has dubbed itself a “refuge” for transgender people.

Your Least Favorite Initiative Man Is Back: Tech millionaire Brian Heywood’s org, Let’s Go Washington, filed signatures for two anti-LGBTQ initiatives.

Supporters of two citizen initiatives, one focused on parental rights and another on barring transgender athletes from girls’ sports, moved closer Friday to getting those measures before the Washington state Legislature, and potentially voters.

The local civil rights and Transgender advocacy organization Gender Justice League (GJL) announced that it will commit $100,000 in 2026 toward defeating two initiatives, IL26-001 (“the Parents’ Bill of Rights”) and IL26-638 (“Protecting Fairness in Girls’ Sports”).

When former FOX 13 journalist-turned-influencer Brandi Kruse said that FBI Director Kash Patel should investigate the Seattle-based Gender Justice League for “left-wing violence,” GJL’s Kai Aprill-Tomlin immediately started thinking about how to protect the team from violence and threats, he said.

The White House’s recent memorandum, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” represents a dangerous expansion of state power that threatens Trans people and organizations.