Emergency rally in front of the White House on Wednesday evening. (Photo by Ted Eytan)

Protesters are planning to show up at the White House Wednesday night and Saturday to show vociferous opposition to President Donald Trump’s decision to reinstate a ban on transgender service members.

Trump made the announcement over three tweets on Wednesday morning. His administration has been unable to answer basic questions about what the directive means for current transgender service members.

A 2016 RAND Corporation study found that there are about 2,500 transgender people out of 1.3 million active duty service members, and 1,500 out of 825,000 in the reserves (the upper end of estimates are 7,000 and 4,000 respectively). LGBTQ groups say the total is even higher, around 15,000.

One protest is planned tonight outside the White House, from 7-10 p.m. Another is slated for Saturday from 12 2 p.m., also in front of the White House. (Reminder: there’s one Facebook page that keeps track of most Trump-related protests in the area).

After a year of study, the Defense Department under President Barack Obama announced in 2016 that it would end the prohibition on transgender individuals serving in the military.

Trump reversed the decision, apparently after an internal battle between factions of the GOP over military spending on gender reassignment surgeries. It appears to have caught pretty much everyone by surprise, going much further than what even some House Republicans were originally asking for.

Trump’s decision to roll back Obama-era protections for transgender students also brought sign-wielding protesters to the White House and glitter-y dance protesters to Mike Pence’s house back in February.