The Worcester City Council meeting in Massachusetts was standing room only due to a flood of LGBT activists urging members to make the city a sanctuary for the group. Massachusetts has been an LGBT sanctuary state since 2023 and is among 11 other states with the status.

The Worcester City Council has approved a petition declaring Massachusetts’ second-largest municipality as a sanctuary for “transgender and gender-diverse people” after hearing residents compare the Trump administration to Nazis.

On Tuesday night the city council voted in favor of becoming a sanctuary city for transgender and gender-diverse people.