{"id":6153,"date":"2025-05-30T13:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/trans-attorney-creates-support-network-during-the-dark-days-of-trumpism\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:08:06","slug":"trans-attorney-creates-support-network-during-the-dark-days-of-trumpism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/trans-attorney-creates-support-network-during-the-dark-days-of-trumpism\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Attorney Creates Support Network During the Dark Days of Trumpism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/36785220\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/0c44a4\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/f3f5f9\" height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>Dru Levasseur is the founder of the Trans Legal Professionals Networking Program, a group that, as one might infer, aims to provide social and professional support to trans individuals in the legal industry at a time when the full weight and influence of the U.S. government is threatening their rights as citizens of this country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Levasseur came out as trans more than two decades ago and has been navigating those precarious waters ever since. In the interview, Smith and Levasseur discuss the latter&#8217;s background, the challenges many trans people have historically faced, as well as those they currently encounter, both socially and professionally, and the power of community in challenging times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dru Levasseur is the founder of the Trans Legal Professionals Networking Program, a group that, as one might infer, aims to provide social and professional support to trans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1585,4437,1960,5895,6136,3653,3392,6137],"class_list":["post-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-attorney","tag-creates","tag-dark","tag-days","tag-network","tag-support","tag-trans","tag-trumpism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6169,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions\/6169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}