In recent months, some of the nation’s most elite universities have folded under the Trump administration’s demands to ban transgender students from bathrooms, sports, and even recognition altogether. Hospitals, too, have caved to federal funding threats designed to force compliance with discriminatory policies. But one place has emerged as a bulwark of resistance: local school boards. When faced with the same threats — to lose millions in federal funding unless they betray their transgender students and teachers — these communities have refused to back down. First it was Virginia , then Denver and Chicago . Now, New York City Public Schools, the largest public school system in the country, has joined them, declaring it will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands.

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