Nearly 40 years ago, disability advocates struck a deal with Republican lawmakers, who agreed to give their votes in exchange for excluding trans people from landmark federal disability protections. But a new rule proposed by the Trump administration aims to reverse that. This time, though, disability rights advocates are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the LGBTQ+ community to extend civil rights protections to people who were historically left out. That has been a principle of the disability rights movement for decades,” Claudia Center, legal director of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, told The 19th. She and other disability advocates tried to negotiate with the Republican senators whose support they needed.