Folk artist Lucy Dacus recently announced she is donating to individuals seeking transgender medical operations in an apparent attempt to get back at President Trump’s executive orders regarding gender and transgender individuals.
Dacus, who is one-third of the Grammy-winning all-female music group “boygenius,” told her X followers on Wednesday that she will give $500 to each person who comments on her status with a link to donate to their transitions, up to $10,000.
“If trans people wanna comment surgery gofundmes, I’m gonna give away 10k in $500 increments until it’s gone, & if other people wanna scroll through and make donations, please do,” Dacus wrote.
“The government will never be the source of our validation or protection, we have to do it ourselves,” the singer added, signaling she made the offer as a political protest.
Dacus’ post came two days after President Trump signed an executive order, titled, “Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government.”
The EO clarifies that it is U.S. policy to recognize two sexes, male and female and that men and women are biologically distinct, along with addressing how agencies should handle these directives.
Left-wing critics slammed Trump’s order immediately. ACLU lawyer and trans person Chase Strangio said this week that it “enhances the risk that transgender people face in society.”
President Trump wasted no time signing a slew of executive orders on Day 1, including those that:
- Direct DOJ not to enforce TikTok “divest-or-ban” law for 75 days
- Halt 78 Biden-era executive actions
- Withdraw from the Paris climate accord
- End all federal cases and investigations of any Trump supporters
- Revoke protections for transgender troops
- Pardon about 1,500 people criminally charged in the Jan. 6 attack, while commuting the sentences for six
- Overhaul the refugee admission program to better align with American principles and interests
- Declare a national emergency at the US-Mexico border
- Designate drug cartels and Tren de Aragua as foreign terrorist organizations
- Reverse several immigration orders from the Biden administration, including one that narrows deportation priorities to people who commit serious crimes, are deemed national security threats or were stopped at the border
- Rescind a policy created by the Biden administration that sought to guide the development of AI to prevent misuse
- Rescind a Biden-era policy that allowed federal agencies to take certain initiatives to boost voter registration
- Rescind the 2021 Title IX order, which bans discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation in education programs that get federal funding
- Revoke Biden’s recent removal of Cuba from US state sponsors of terrorism list
- Order federal employees back to work in office five days a week
- Order a federal hiring freeze, including exceptions for posts related to national security and public safety and the military
- Direct every governmental department and agency to address the cost-of-living crisis
- Restore freedom of speech and prevent censorship of free speech
- End the “weaponization of government against the political adversaries of the previous administration”
- Impose 25% tariffs on products from Mexico and Canada as of Feb. 1
- Reverse Biden sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank
- Reverse Biden order requiring 50% of new cars sold in 2030 be EVs
- Proclaim that there are two biological sexes: male and female
- End diversity, equity and inclusion programs within federal agencies
- Establish Department of Government Efficiency
- Institute enhanced screening for visa applicants from certain high-risk nations
- Reopen Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration
- Order attorney general, secretary of state and secretary of homeland security to “take all appropriate action to prioritize” prosecution of illegal aliens who commit crimes
- Withdraw US from Global Minimum Tax agreement
- Institute a 90-day pause in the issuance of US foreign aid
- Order the attorney general to pursue the death penalty for killing of a law enforcement officer or any capital crime committed by an illegal immigrant
- Order the secretaries of commerce and the interior to restart efforts to route water from California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the state
- Withdraw the US from the World Health Organization
- Order Treasury Department to explore creation of External Revenue Service
- Revoke security clearances for ex-national security adviser John Bolton and 51 intelligence officials who said Hunter Biden laptop bore “classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation.
- Declare the border crisis an “invasion” and order the attorney general and secretaries of state and homeland security to “take all appropriate action to repel, repatriate, or remove any alien engaged” in such
- Formally rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” and Alaska’s Mt. Denali to “Mt. McKinley”
Dacus’ post went viral, getting over one million views in just over a day, along with a multitude of commenters sharing links to their GoFundMe pages where the singer and her fans could donate to their procedures.
One user, Carter Tucker, asked Dacus to help pay off the debt from a recent gender procedure.
“I had my surgery in November but still have about 4k I owe to the hospital. Anything helps! Thank you for doing this, Lucy!” the user wrote.
Another shared a GoFundMe page for their friend, stating, “my homie Patrick abt to have his top surgery!!!”
The 29-year-old Dacus came out as queer in 2016. In addition to her own pro-LGBTQ activism, she and her “boygenius” bandmates – Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker – write music exploring LGBTQ themes and together boast a legion of LGBTQ fans.
During their 2023 tour, the band led a “F— Ron DeSantis” chant onstage at Coachella to protest the anti-LGBTQ bills the Florida governor signed into law.
The group also performed in drag in Nashville that year to protest Tennessee’s law restricting drag performances considered “harmful to minors.”
The law was eventually struck down in 2023.
