Folk artist Lucy Dacus recently announced that she is donating to individuals seeking transgender medical surgeries in an apparent attempt to get back at President Trump executive orders As for genderqueer and transgender individuals.
Dacus, who is one-third of Grammy’s “Boygenius” group, told her followers on Wednesday that she will give $500 to anyone who comments on her status with a link to donate to their transitions, UP to $10,000.
“If trans people want to comment on GoFundmes surgery, I’ll give 10k in $500 increments until it’s gone, and if other people want to step up and donate, please do,” Dacus wrote.
Folk musician Lucy Dacus has offered to donate thousands of dollars to some of her fans’ transgender surgeries this week. The move appeared to be in response to President Trump’s executive order regarding the US government’s handling of sex and gender. (NBC/Contributor)
“The government will never be the source of our validation or protection. We have to do it ourselves,” the singer added, signaling that she made the offer as a political protest.
Dacus’ post comes two days after President Trump signed an executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
The EO clarifies that it is U.S. policy to recognize the two sexes, male and female, and that men and women are biologically different, along with addressing how agencies should submit those directives.
Left-wing critics immediately slammed Trump’s order. ACLU attorney and trans person Chase strangio He said this week that it “increases the risk that transgender people face in society”.
Dacus’ post went viral, garnering more than a million views in just over a day, along with scores of commenters sharing links to their GoFundMe pages where the singer and her fans could donate to her cause.
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President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it at a closed-door presidential inauguration event in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
One user, Carter Tucker, asked Dacus to help pay off debt from a recent fertility procedure.
“I had surgery in November but I still owe the hospital about 4K. Anything helps! Thank you for doing this Lucy!” User wrote.
Another shared a GoFundMe page for his friend, stating, “My Homie Patrick Abt having the best surgery !!!”
29-year-old Dacus came out as queer in 2016. Along with her own pro-LGBTQ activism, she and her “Boygenius” band—Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker—write music that explores LGBTQ themes and together boast a legion of LGBTQ fans.
During their 2023 tour, the band led “F — Ron Desantis” on stage at Coachella to protest anti-LGBTQ legislation signed into law by the governor of Florida.
The group also performed at Drag in Nashville that year to protest Tennessee’s law Limiting withdrawal performance considered “harmful to minors”.
The law was in the end demolished in 2023.
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Dacus did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
