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In the week since President-elect Donald Trump's victory, the transgender rights organization Advocates for Trans Equality has seen an uptick in the number of community members reaching out in search of resources.

People are scrambling to figure out what they should do next and what they should focus on in order to protect themselves from what they worry will be the inevitable infringement on their freedoms, Ash Lazarus Orr, A4TE's press relations manager, told Salon.

"People are also scared," Orr, who uses he/they pronouns, said in a phone interview.

As Trump readies to take office in January with a Republican-controlled Congress and a favorable Supreme Court behind him, leftist organizers for transgender rights, reproductive freedom and Palestinian liberation are preparing to face greater barriers to expanding the freedoms they seek and having their demands met under his administration.

While activists and their communities are fearful for the future, they remain determined in their ability to affect change and hopeful the solidarity they've built under the Biden administration will be enough to sustain it.