Massive Women's March Planned After Trump's Inauguration Runs Into Huge Problem: Report

WASHINGTON, DC — An astonishing 126,000 people have indicated they are going to attend the "Women's March on Washington" the day after Donald Trump's Jan. 20 Inauguration to protest the president-elect, but they've run into one very big problem: they don't have a permit.

The Women's March on Washington Facebook page has blown up since being created shortly after Trump's surprising upset win over Hillary Clinton, with 218,000 indicating that they are interested in going and more than half that figure confirming their attendance as of Wednesday afternoon. But WTOP reports that other groups have beaten the march organizers to filing a permit for the area on Jan. 21, 2017. The march is planned to include as many as 200,000 people marching from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House.

National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst said the permit hasn't been denied, they just need to figure out a way to accommodate the request, and officials are currently working to do so.

March organizers say that their goal is to stand up for women's rights after an election that featured "rhetoric [that] has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us," the Facebook page says.

"In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore," it continues. "The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us."

Image via Women's March on Washington