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They have also sent “a very strong and damaging message to citizens about the kind of country they’re living in,” said Maha Ibrahim, a senior attorney at Equality Rights Advocates, a national gender justice nonprofit based in San Francisco.

Ibrahim stressed that the president cannot create law with the stroke of a pen. She also acknowledged that LGBTQ people in red states are more likely to feel the consequences of the executive actions than those in blue states.

“That E.O. is most harmful to states that have already been targeting their own citizens … because they don’t have strong state laws and they don’t have legislatures that intend to strengthen any laws to protect their own citizens,” said Ibrahim, who manages her nonprofit’s Ending Sexual Violence in Education program. “In California, not much effect.”