Folk creator Lucy Dacus precocious announced she is donating to individuals seeking transgender aesculapian operations successful an evident effort to get backmost astatine President Trump’s executive orders regarding sex and transgender individuals.
Dacus, who is one-third of the Grammy-winning all-female euphony radical "boygenius," told her X followers connected Wednesday that she volition springiness $500 to each idiosyncratic who comments connected her presumption with a nexus to donate to their transitions, up to $10,000.
"If trans radical wanna remark country gofundmes, I’m gonna springiness distant 10k successful $500 increments until it’s gone, & if different radical wanna scroll done and marque donations, delight do," Dacus wrote.
Folk instrumentalist Lucy Dacus offered to donate thousands of dollars to the transgender operations of immoderate of her fans this week. The determination seemed to beryllium a effect to President Trump's enforcement bid regarding the U.S. government's attraction of sex and sex. (NBC/Contributor)
"The authorities volition ne'er beryllium the root of our validation oregon protection, we person to bash it ourselves," the vocalist added, signaling she made the connection arsenic a governmental protest.
Dacus’ station came 2 days aft President Trump signed an enforcement order, titled, "Defending women from sex ideology extremism and restoring biologic information to the national government."
The EO clarifies that it is U.S. argumentation to admit 2 sexes, antheral and female, and that men and women are biologically distinct, on with addressing however agencies should grip these directives.
Left-wing critics slammed Trump’s bid immediately. ACLU lawyer and trans idiosyncratic Chase Strangio said this week that it "enhances the hazard that transgender radical look successful society."
Dacus’ station went viral, getting implicit 1 cardinal views successful conscionable implicit a day, on with a multitude of commenters sharing links to their GoFundMe pages wherever the vocalist and her fans could donate to their procedures.
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President Donald Trump holds up an enforcement bid aft signing it astatine an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade lawsuit successful Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
One user, Carter Tucker, asked Dacus to assistance wage disconnected the indebtedness from a caller sex procedure.
"I had my country successful November but inactive person astir 4k I beryllium to the hospital. Anything helps! Thank you for doing this, Lucy!" the idiosyncratic wrote.
Another shared a GoFundMe leafage for their friend, stating, "my homie Patrick abt to person his apical surgery!!!"
The 29-year-old Dacus came retired arsenic queer successful 2016. In summation to her ain pro-LGBTQ activism, she and her "boygenius" bandmates – Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker – constitute euphony exploring LGBTQ themes and unneurotic boast a legion of LGBTQ fans.
During their 2023 tour, the set led a "F--- Ron DeSantis" chant onstage astatine Coachella to protestation the anti-LGBTQ bills the Florida politician signed into law.
The radical besides performed successful resistance successful Nashville that twelvemonth to protestation Tennessee’s instrumentality restricting resistance performances considered "harmful to minors."
The instrumentality was yet struck down successful 2023.
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Dacus did not instantly reply to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.
Gabriel Hays is an subordinate exertion for Fox News Digital.