When Jim Obergefell and John Arthur boarded a charter medical jet one summer day in 2013 to exchange vows, national attitudes towards same-sex marriage were shifting. That May, a record-high 51% of American adults said they were in favor of allowing queer couples to marry,

Some veterans of the marriage equality movement see similarities between their struggles and battles over trans rights. The Senate voted 51-49 to begin debating Trump’s policy bill. It’s still unclear whether Republican leaders can find enough votes to pass the measure and send it back to the House.

Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court’s landmark same-sex marriage case, urges LGBTQ advocates not to let their guards down.