Trans rights—civil rights—are undergoing a discriminative federal attack. The Trump Administration has flooded the United States’ legal system with increasingly transphobic, generally oppressive, and ostensibly legal Executive Orders, many “calling for widespread discrimination against transgender people in their public and private lives.” [1] Under legal ambiguity created by Erie v. Tompkins and limitations on the federal control over municipal resources in Printz v. United States, local governments can begin to utilize legal autonomy to resist the Trump Administration's discriminatory Executive Orders. Municipal resistance of Executive Orders at this scale remains mostly untested in courts, but with such immediate and drastic threats to civil rights, legal experimentation and ambition is necessary.

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