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Courtesy the National Organization for Marriage

A 'Free Speech Bus' has begun a tour around the East Coast of the United States to rally against transgender people. The tour aims to raise awareness to what the campaign calls "the truth of gender." Organizers include several anti-LGBTQ groups, including National Organization of Marriage, International Organization for the Family (IOF) and CitizenGO.

The bright orange tour bus, complete with cartoon depictions of a cartoon boy and girl, reads: "It's biology: Boys are boys...and always will be. Girls are girls...and always will be. You can't change sex. Respect all."

The bus began touring on Wednesday in New York City, and was reportedly vandalized after two days on the road. According to USA Today, two people scratched the bus, spray-painted slogans like "Trans Liberation" and cracked windows with a hammer when the bus was parked near the United Nations headquarters.

Brian S. Brown, president of NOM and IOF, said in a news release that gender is "fixed, immutable and complementary. Rather than perpetuate a lie that gender can be changed based on emotions and feelings, we should encourage people to embrace and love who they were made to be."

Brown and the organizations he leads oppose same-sex marriage. In 2012, he launched a global "Dump Starbucks" campaign through NOM to protest the company's support for gay couples to marry.

Some groups promoting human rights, including LGBTQ rights, called the FreeSpeechBus "hateful." Jessica Stern of OutRight Action International wrote: "Broadcasting a message that erases and denies the reality that transgender and intersex children and youth exist is irresponsible, factually misleading, disrespectful, and dangerous. This vehicle is part of the reason trans youth are driven to suicide."

The bus plans to stop in Boston for two days, on Monday, March 27 and Tuesday, March 28. The group's schedule also includes stops in New Haven, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.