Senate President Karen Spilka pledged that the Senate would reject any piece of “anti-LGBTQ” legislation that is filed in the Massachusetts Legislature in the face of what she described as attacks on the transgender community by the Trump administration.

During a “Trans Day of Visibility” event inside the State House Monday, the Ashland Democrat said the federal government is rolling back protections for transgender people, attacking their health care access, and trying “to force certain trans people back into the shadows.”

“Let me be clear, not a single bill that attacks the hard-won rights of this community will ever make it through my door or the doors of the Massachusetts Senate,” Spilka said. “Massachusetts is not budging, will never budge. We will be here for you. We are not retreating. We are not compromising. Simply put, we are not going back.”

Transgender rights have become a politically contentious topic in the United States — from the ability of biological males to play in women’s sports to transgender individuals serving in the military.

President Donald Trump’s administration has targeted the community, including by getting rid of mentions of transgender people on government websites and passports and attempting to remove them from the armed forces.

The Republican president singled out Maine Gov. Janet Mills at the White House earlier this year during a fiery exchange over a threat to deny federal funding to the state unless officials there banned transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.

Massachusetts has added protections for transgender people into state law over the years.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, signed legislation in 2011 that adds “gender identity” as a protected characteristic to Massachusetts’ employment, housing, credit, and public education anti-discrimination laws and to the state’s hate crimes law, according to GLAD.

Former Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, signed legislation in 2016 that protects transgender people from discrimination in restaurants, libraries, hotels, malls, public transportation, and other public places, according to the organization GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders.

Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll said transgender individuals are facing “the worst threats we’ve ever seen” under the Trump administration.

“I was going to say in a long time, but I think it might actually be ever,” Driscoll said.