And while men were in the crowd and on the stage, it was an unabashedly female event. Many who addressed the marchers took the time to honor their mothers and to talk about their children. Speakers talked about reproductive rights, birth control, pay inequity, public health, domestic and sexual abuse, education, and peace in a way that seemed to reflect the audience's identification of itself as mothers, daughters, and sisters. Some raised fears that Trump's dismantling of the Affordable Care Act would hurt them and their families.