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More than 15,000 people marched peacefully through downtown Vancouver on Saturday to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s views on women’s rights.

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It was one of dozens of protests organized across the world in support of the Women’s March on Washington — coinciding with Trump’s first day in the Oval Office — in reaction to the new president’s perceived views on female, minority and LGBTQ rights and threats to defund planned parenthood.

In Vancouver, a Facebook event page had amassed nearly 8,000 RSVP confirmations from local participants the night before the march. But on Saturday, the crowd in downtown Vancouver was estimated by local authorities to number almost twice that, including people of all genders and numerous races and religions. Many were children or adults attending their first ever public demonstration.

Among the many signs spotted in the crowd was one made up of a tiny crocheted cartoon uterus. One said: “We are not ovary acting, we are demanding fundamental human rights” Another read: “Not my president, still my problem.” There was no shortage of marchers wearing pink knitted “pussy hats”.