Folk artist Lucy Dacus recently announced she is donating to individuals seeking transgender medical surgeries in an apparent effort to get back at President Trump Executive orders As for gender and transgender individuals.
Dacus, who is one-third of the Grammy-winning all-female music group “Boygenius,” told her up to $10,000.
“If trans people want to give a surgery GoFundmes, I’ll give away 10K in $500 increments until it’s gone, and if other people want to scroll through and make donations, please do,” Dacus wrote.
Folk musician Lucy Dacus offered to donate thousands of dollars to the transgender surgeries of some of her fans this week. The move appeared to be in response to President Trump’s executive order regarding the U.S. government’s treatment of gender and sex. (NBC/employee)
“The government will never be the source of our validation or protection, we have to do it ourselves,” the singer added, indicating that she made the offer as a political protest.
Dacus’ post came two days after President Trump signed an executive order entitled, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
The EO clarifies that it is our policy to recognize two genders, male and female, and that men and women are biologically different, along with addressing how agencies should process these guidelines.
Left-wing critics immediately slammed Trump’s order. ACLU attorney and trans person Chase Strangio Said this week it “increases the risk transgender people face in society”.
Dacus’ post went viral, gaining over a million views in just over a day, along with a multitude of commenters sharing links to their GoFundMe pages where the singer and her fans could donate to their procedures.
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President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing an indoor presidential inauguration parade event in Washington, Monday, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
One user, Carter Tucker, asked Dacus to pay off the debt from a recent gender procedure.
“I had my surgery in November but still have about 4K that I owe to the hospital. Anything helps! Thanks for doing this, Lucy!” The user wrote.
Another shared a GoFundMe page for their friend, saying, “My homie Patrick Abt getting his top surgery!!!”
Dacus, 29, came out as queer in 2016. In addition to her own pro-LGBTQ activism, she and her “Boygenius” bandmates—Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker—write music that explores LGBTQ themes and unite a legion of LGBTQ fans.
During their 2023 tour, the band led a “F— Ron Desantis” onstage at Coachella to protest the anti-LGBTQ bills that Florida’s governor signed into law.
The group also performed at Drag in Nashville that year to protest the Tennessee law Limit drag performance considered “harmful to minors.”
The law was final Closes in 2023.
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DACUS did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
