The third annual Women’s March and rally took place one day after march organizers released a sweeping 68-page Women’s Agenda document that includes strongly worded support for LGBT equality, including a call for Congress to pass the LGBT rights bill known as the Equality Act.

Organizers said the Washington march was one of more than 300 marches and related events held on Saturday in U.S. cities and abroad in which hundreds of thousands of women and their allies participated. Most observes familiar with the first two women’s marchers said Saturday’s event drew far fewer people in D.C., New York and Los Angeles than the 2017 and 2018 Women’s Marches. Some observers said the smaller turnout could have been due to a controversy surrounding allegations of anti-Semitism among members of the national Women’s March organization.

But the two trans women speakers at the rally and LGBT participants in the Washington march praised march leaders for bringing together what they called a diverse coalition of progressive organizations and individuals, including Jewish, African American and Latino leaders who strongly support an agenda of intersectionality.

The two trans speakers, Jewish community activist Abby Stein and Bamby Salcedo, who serves as president and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, were selected along with two lesbians to serve on the Women’s March’s 31-member Steering Committee.

“I’m a trans woman and a Jewish queer,” Stein told several thousand people assembled for the rally at Freedom Plaza and surrounding streets. “I’m here today with my Jewish family and with my LGBTQ and transgender family,” she said. Read more via Washington Blade