Los Angeles City Councilmen Mitch O’Farrell, 13th District, and Mike Bonin, 11th District, on Friday introduced a motion that requests a report back from the city’s Transgender Advisory Council on how best to serve the needs of the community following recent anti-LGBT orders from the White House.

President Donald J. Trump recently rolled back protections for transgender students, and canceled plans to ask Americans for their sexual orientation in the 2020 Census, a move that the councilmen said could jeopardize critical funding for health and human services through various federal departments.

“We have a new president who has surrounded himself with radical ideologues and we must combat their ignorant, phobia-driven, hostile approach to our community at every step,” O’Farrell said. “His policy is mean-spirited, and if we don’t come out swinging, then we are all complicit in diminishing the rights of others.”

The councilmen made the announcement on Transgender Day of Visibility, standing with members of the Transgender Advisory Council, commissioners with the city’s Human Relations Commission and LGBT Senior Lead Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the country to establish a permanent council of transgender community leaders to advise the city on policies that address critical issues facing trans people, such as economic development, public safety, accessibility and public awareness.

“I am hoping to wake up from this nightmare that is President Trump,” said Karina Samala, chair of the city’s Transgender Advisory Council. “Each day brings more disturbing news to our community, as President Trump unravels all our rights, protections, funding and assistance that we achieved through hard work and sacrifice all these years. He is a threat to transgender rights, housing and food programs that we so desperately need.”

According to Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBT civil rights organization, Trump’s potential “religious exemption” would allow federal contractors, as well as others that are subject to Obama-era executive orders and regulations,  to discriminate based on sexual orientation.

The event on Friday included a moment of remembrance for eight transgender women who were murdered in the U.S. since January 1.