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        White House puts trans rights groups in counterterrorism crosshairs
      The Trump administration’s new security directive frames “radically pro-transgender” groups as potential domestic threats while omitting any mention of right-wing extremism.
 
   Assistant to the US President for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka attends a US Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag raising ceremony at the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 9, 2026. 

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