Organizers estimate 17,000 gather in Raleigh for 2017 Women's March

Health care, the environment, women's rights and love are matters these marchers fear could be trampled by a Trump presidency.

Members of the crowd, bearing homemade signs, flooded Fayetteville Street to voice their opinions just one day after Trump's inauguration.

Organizers estimated 17,000 people turned out for the event. A spokesman for the Raleigh Police Department said the department does not give estimates of crowd sizes because it's difficult to be accurate.

"I'm concerned that women are going to be treated differently because they're a woman, and they think we can't do what men can do," protester Nila Hines said.

"I've never been so depressed after an election as I was this year. many days I stayed curled up in my bed, and I said 'You know what, I just got to get out and speak," protester Sandra Sanchez said.

Raleigh protesters were part of the millions of other people who protested around the United States and the world Saturday.

Cities around the world, such as Sydney, Paris and Copenhagen, joined Raleigh, Charlotte and Washington, D.C., in similar marches. Dozens of other cities in the United States, including Denver, San Francisco and Seattle, held marches, as well. Raleigh's Women's March was one of several marches in cities across the state, including Charlotte, Greensboro, Asheville and Wilmington.

"I've never been so depressed after an election as I was this year. many days I stayed curled up in my bed, and I said 'You know what, I just got to get out and speak," protester Sandra Sanchez said.