74Supporters converged on statehouses nationwide, at the Capitol Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., and were planned as far away as Mexico City and Lisbon.
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People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, by the Capitol in Washington.
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Mac Gordon Frith, 6, left, who is here supporting his sibling, Caleta Frith, 9, right, who is non-binary, uses a hula hoop during a rally on the Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, by the Capitol in Washington.
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Dawn Whitlow, of Virginia Beach, Va., center, attends a rally as part of Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, by the Capitol in Washington. "I'm here to support the LGBT and Trans community," says Whitlow, who says she is bisexual, "with myself and my nieces being the same way I want to support them the way I wasn't supported."
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Attendees of the Transgender Day of Visibility rally in Montana lay down on the floor in the state Capitol rotunda in an event inspired by "die-ins" held by AIDS activists in the 1980s, Friday, March 31, in Helena, Mont. The effort was to "visibly lay our bodies in this space and claim this space as our own," said Izzi Milch, senior advocacy manager with Forward Montana, a nonprofit dedicated to helping younger residents to get engaged in politics and shape policies. A performer, who goes by the name Natalita, led participants in a chant saying: "My body is my own. I am in control."
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A protester outside the Kansas Statehouse holds a sign after a rally for transgender rights on the Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, in Topeka, Kan.
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Ian Benalcazar, far right, a 13-year-old transgender boy from Lawrence, Kan., speaks outside the Kansas Statehouse during a rally on Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, in Topeka, Kan. Ian is among more than 100 people, including many transgender youth, who came to the Statehouse to protest bills before Kansas lawmakers that would roll back transgender rights.
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Some of the more than 100 participants listen to speakers at rally outside the Kansas Statehouse on Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, in Topeka, Kan. Republican lawmakers in Kansas and other states are pursuing several hundred proposals that would roll back transgender rights, including measures to ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports and to prohibit gender-affirming medical care for minors.
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Greg Green, the executive director of Transgender Awareness Alliance, smiles at a Transgender Day of Visibility event in Columbia, S.C., Friday, March 31.
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Dylan Michael Turner, 27, stands outside a Transgender Day of Visibility event in Columbia, S.C., Friday, March 31.
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Hundreds of people gather on the lawn of the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier, on Friday March 31, in support of transgender rights.
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Charlie Draughn, of Chisago, Minnesota, speaks at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier, on Friday March 31, in support of transgender rights. The Vermont rally is one of many being held across the country on Friday. Draugh, who attends boarding school in Vermont said he was angry that groups are trying to control his life and turn him into something he is not.
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Chandra Bossard and her daughter Kai, 10, of Dummerston, Vt., attend a rally at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier, on Friday March 31, in support of transgender rights. The Vermont rally is one of many being held across the country on Friday.
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A demonstrator waits for the start of a march to celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility in Lisbon, Friday, March 31.
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Demonstrators clap their hands during a march to celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility in Lisbon, Friday, March 31.
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