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How could the team of Jackie Robinson and Jaime Jarrín — with appreciation nights this season for seven ethnic groups, the LGBTQ+ community and labor unions — possibly want anything to do with a commander-in-chief who has declared all things DEI verboten and wants to gut labor rights?

While Harris didn’t mention Trump by name, she was clearly referring to rollbacks of protections for minorities, women, the LGBTQ+ community among others in her remarks.

The Trump administration is reviewing the curriculum of a sex education program in California for medical accuracy and age appropriateness, a move that has sparked backlash from LGBTQ+ advocates worried about queer and transgender sexual health information being censored.

Jorge Reyes Salinas, spokesperson for LGBTQ+ civil rights organization Equality California, called Gradison’s statement misleading.

He devoted his adult years to championing the causes of people he believed were treated as second-class citizens, including immigrants, farmworkers, women and members of the LGBTQ+ community.