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Some progressives worry that a new preference for upstart campaigns could challenge the traditional pipelines of power that allow candidates without access to large financial resources to build support while slowly moving up the ranks of local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">benefited from record spending, much of it self-financed\u003c/a>, to become the city’s first mayor elected without any government experience since Jim Rolph in 1911. When Mahan won the mayorship in 2022, he did so after just two years on the city council — the least government experience of any mayor since San Jose voters began directly electing the position in 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle aged man speaks into microphones wearing a blue suit and a white collared shirt with no tie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan at the press conference on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Mahan and Lurie were able to seize on voter discontent over widespread and highly visible homelessness, a rise in shoplifting and commercial burglaries and ongoing disruptions from the pandemic by blaming city hall “insiders.” They argued that their years of experience outside of government — Mahan as CEO of the civic engagement tech platform Brigade, Lurie as founder of the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point Community — would allow them to engineer a culture shift within the municipal bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013667/daniel-lurie-san-franciscos-next-mayor-what-will-that-look-like\">At his victory press conference on Friday\u003c/a>, Lurie promised “a government centered on accountability, service and change” that would move past years of corruption scandals. It was a message with echoes of Mahan’s 2022 campaign call for “common sense, accountability and transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither candidate emerged completely independent of their cities’ existing power structures. Lurie grew up amid San Francisco’s financial elite, and his work with Tipping Point brought him close contact with city leaders trying to reduce homelessness. Mahan was backed by the incumbent mayor, Sam Liccardo, and the city’s powerful business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wunderman said voters viewed these political outsiders as better equipped to take a data-driven approach to reducing homelessness, crime and blight — and more likely to ask tough questions of city department heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like ‘Why do we have so many employees in the city? What are we getting from the work of these departments and the individuals in them?” Wunderman said. “‘What kind of management do we have in place?’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those questions could portend conflict with existing city employees and the unions that represent them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has sparred with municipal worker unions since taking office, and he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958290/san-jose-city-council-approves-agreements-with-unions-to-avoid-strike\">voted against a deal that raised wages and benefits for city employees\u003c/a> last year. Lurie’s relationship with labor is less defined. While he received the support of a few unions, most labor groups backed other candidates in the mayoral race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IFPTE Local 21, which represents municipal workers across the Bay Area’s largest cities, has opposed Mahan and strongly supported Sheng Thao in Oakland. In San Francisco, they recommended only that voters leave former interim mayor Mark Farrell off of their ranked-choice ballots for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our fervent hope that Daniel Lurie’s administration is going to make it a priority to support the workers that actually make this city run,” said Bianca Polovina, president of IFPTE Local 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polovina said the mayoral election results should not be read as a rebuke to organized labor — pointing to the success of a majority of IFPTE-endorsed candidates for supervisor and city council across the three cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='politics' label='More Politics Coverage.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working people across the San Francisco Bay Area are demanding bold leadership that prioritizes high-quality public services,” Polovina added. “Voters are pretty adamant that they want core essential services, they want clean streets, effective public transportation, and comprehensive public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did Mahan and Lurie win without major backing from labor, incumbent elected officials across the political spectrum also opposed them. All of Mahan’s fellow city council members endorsed his 2022 opponent, Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, and not a single sitting San Francisco supervisor picked Lurie as their first choice for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing entrenched interests and the daunting task of introducing themselves to voters, Lurie’s personal wealth and Mahan’s Silicon Valley connections provided them with access to capital, argued Kimi Lee, executive director of Bay Rising, a coalition of progressive groups working to build political power among working-class voters of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we see is that there’s definitely an influence of corporations and billionaires and outside money and venture capitalists,” said Lee, who also noted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">outsized role of a single hedge-fund manager\u003c/a> in funding the Thao recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the losing end of last week’s electoral upheaval were two incumbents, Thao and Breed, who had spent years working their way up the ranks of city government before breaking barriers as their city’s first Hmong-American and Black female mayors, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is still something there, where people overly criticize women, women of color,” said Lee. “They expect higher things from them — just more critical, saying they’re soft on crime…or saying that they’re not someone who can handle this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s lack of experience will be tested quickly, as he will face the immediate challenges of building an administration, establishing relationships within city hall and closing an ongoing budget deficit. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amid continued frustration over the cost of living, public safety and homelessness, voters in the Bay Area’s largest cities are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013761/this-was-not-a-good-election-to-be-an-incumbent\">embracing mayoral candidates and campaigns that promise a shake-up at city hall\u003c/a> — putting aside concerns about experience and stability and embracing political outsiders in this year’s elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, nonprofit founder and philanthropist Daniel Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">toppled incumbent mayor London Breed and bested a field of candidates\u003c/a> with decades of combined city hall experience. In San Jose, Mayor Matt Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#matt-mahan-sails-to-second-term-as-mayor-of-san-jose\">cruised to an early re-election in March\u003c/a>, riding the momentum of his own insurgent victory less than two years ago. And in Oakland, Mayor Sheng Thao \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">was removed from office after an unprecedented\u003c/a> recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates have long rode promises of change to victory, but in Mahan and Lurie, voters in the region’s two largest cities have chosen leaders with a historic lack of government experience who touted their outsider status as evidence of a fresh and independent perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matt Mahan felt like an outsider, and I think Daniel Lurie does, too,” said Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the business advocacy group the Bay Area Council and a former mayoral chief of staff in San Francisco. “I think their campaigns were sort of saying, ‘Things aren’t being run the way they could be, and I could do a better job, and I won’t be afraid to make the changes.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his surprising victory in 2022, Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967395/san-jose-labor-groups-dont-like-mayor-matt-mahan-so-why-does-his-re-election-seem-assured\">faced no organized opposition in the mayoral contest held in March\u003c/a> after the city moved its mayoral elections to presidential years. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013667/daniel-lurie-san-franciscos-next-mayor-what-will-that-look-like\">Lurie prevailed in a ranked-choice election, winning the most first-choice votes\u003c/a> and also drawing second-choice support from voters across San Francisco’s political spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wave of political change in Bay Area cities could have profound impacts on city management, government transparency and local labor unions — especially those representing city workers. Some progressives worry that a new preference for upstart campaigns could challenge the traditional pipelines of power that allow candidates without access to large financial resources to build support while slowly moving up the ranks of local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">benefited from record spending, much of it self-financed\u003c/a>, to become the city’s first mayor elected without any government experience since Jim Rolph in 1911. When Mahan won the mayorship in 2022, he did so after just two years on the city council — the least government experience of any mayor since San Jose voters began directly electing the position in 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle aged man speaks into microphones wearing a blue suit and a white collared shirt with no tie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan at the press conference on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Mahan and Lurie were able to seize on voter discontent over widespread and highly visible homelessness, a rise in shoplifting and commercial burglaries and ongoing disruptions from the pandemic by blaming city hall “insiders.” They argued that their years of experience outside of government — Mahan as CEO of the civic engagement tech platform Brigade, Lurie as founder of the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point Community — would allow them to engineer a culture shift within the municipal bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013667/daniel-lurie-san-franciscos-next-mayor-what-will-that-look-like\">At his victory press conference on Friday\u003c/a>, Lurie promised “a government centered on accountability, service and change” that would move past years of corruption scandals. It was a message with echoes of Mahan’s 2022 campaign call for “common sense, accountability and transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither candidate emerged completely independent of their cities’ existing power structures. Lurie grew up amid San Francisco’s financial elite, and his work with Tipping Point brought him close contact with city leaders trying to reduce homelessness. Mahan was backed by the incumbent mayor, Sam Liccardo, and the city’s powerful business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wunderman said voters viewed these political outsiders as better equipped to take a data-driven approach to reducing homelessness, crime and blight — and more likely to ask tough questions of city department heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like ‘Why do we have so many employees in the city? What are we getting from the work of these departments and the individuals in them?” Wunderman said. “‘What kind of management do we have in place?’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those questions could portend conflict with existing city employees and the unions that represent them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has sparred with municipal worker unions since taking office, and he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958290/san-jose-city-council-approves-agreements-with-unions-to-avoid-strike\">voted against a deal that raised wages and benefits for city employees\u003c/a> last year. Lurie’s relationship with labor is less defined. While he received the support of a few unions, most labor groups backed other candidates in the mayoral race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IFPTE Local 21, which represents municipal workers across the Bay Area’s largest cities, has opposed Mahan and strongly supported Sheng Thao in Oakland. In San Francisco, they recommended only that voters leave former interim mayor Mark Farrell off of their ranked-choice ballots for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our fervent hope that Daniel Lurie’s administration is going to make it a priority to support the workers that actually make this city run,” said Bianca Polovina, president of IFPTE Local 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polovina said the mayoral election results should not be read as a rebuke to organized labor — pointing to the success of a majority of IFPTE-endorsed candidates for supervisor and city council across the three cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working people across the San Francisco Bay Area are demanding bold leadership that prioritizes high-quality public services,” Polovina added. “Voters are pretty adamant that they want core essential services, they want clean streets, effective public transportation, and comprehensive public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did Mahan and Lurie win without major backing from labor, incumbent elected officials across the political spectrum also opposed them. All of Mahan’s fellow city council members endorsed his 2022 opponent, Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, and not a single sitting San Francisco supervisor picked Lurie as their first choice for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing entrenched interests and the daunting task of introducing themselves to voters, Lurie’s personal wealth and Mahan’s Silicon Valley connections provided them with access to capital, argued Kimi Lee, executive director of Bay Rising, a coalition of progressive groups working to build political power among working-class voters of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we see is that there’s definitely an influence of corporations and billionaires and outside money and venture capitalists,” said Lee, who also noted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">outsized role of a single hedge-fund manager\u003c/a> in funding the Thao recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the losing end of last week’s electoral upheaval were two incumbents, Thao and Breed, who had spent years working their way up the ranks of city government before breaking barriers as their city’s first Hmong-American and Black female mayors, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is still something there, where people overly criticize women, women of color,” said Lee. “They expect higher things from them — just more critical, saying they’re soft on crime…or saying that they’re not someone who can handle this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s lack of experience will be tested quickly, as he will face the immediate challenges of building an administration, establishing relationships within city hall and closing an ongoing budget deficit. After a rocky first year in office in which he was often on the losing end of high-profile votes, Mahan found his footing in 2024 — winning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">unanimous support for his homeless housing plan\u003c/a>, emerging as a leading supporter of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012656/proposition-36-californias-newest-tough-on-crime-measure-appears-headed-for-victory\">new criminal sentencing law approved by California voters\u003c/a>, Proposition 36, and garnering 87% of the vote in his run for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015520/que-pueden-hacer-personas-trans-para-otro-gobierno-trump\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9:45 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s former President Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House in January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907810/the-future-of-trans-rights-in-a-trump-presidency\">advocates for trans communities have expressed their deep concerns\u003c/a> about trans rights over the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final weeks of Trump’s presidential campaign were especially marked by repeated attacks on transgender people, not least at his Madison Square Garden rally, where Trump railed at “transgender insanity” and trans athletes. \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/wake-call-lgbtq-crisis-hotlines-surge-calls-amid/story?id=115811488\">Calls to LBGTQ+ support hotlines have now reportedly surged\u003c/a> in the wake of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the election, “the fear was really, really real,” said Chase Overholt, director of development at Positive Images, a LGBTQIA+ community center in Santa Rosa serving the North Bay. “For my community, for the protection of my rights, my friends’ rights, my friends, access to gender-affirming care across state lines, we knew that Trump was the wrong choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has promised to remove Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender transition treatment to minors. Project 2025 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">a detailed, 900-page policy agenda for the next Republican presidency authored and supported by Trump allies\u003c/a>, former and current Trump staffers and Vice President-elect JD Vance — also calls for \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/project-2025-lgbtq-rights\">rolling back regulations that ban discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and trans status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101907810]On Nov. 12, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907810/the-future-of-trans-rights-in-a-trump-presidency\">KQED Forum hosted a conversation focused on the future of trans rights\u003c/a> in California under Trump. The guest panelists — including Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives — acknowledged that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907810/the-future-of-trans-rights-in-a-trump-presidency\">it’s difficult to offer concrete recommendations right now to trans folks\u003c/a> and their families, given the uncertainty of what’s to come. But amid these attacks, Overholt said, the election “also brought a sense of ‘OK, it’s time to roll up our sleeves even further and get to work, to make sure that folks in this area have the access to the things that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you can still do a few things, even at this early stage. Keep reading for what advocates say trans Californians can do at this moment to find support — and to make themselves feel safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Find — and nurture — community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Our advice is to first check in with your loved ones,” said Jorge Reyes Salinas, communications director at Equality California, the largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization in the United States. “Check in with yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very difficult time where a lot of emotional distress is present, and needs to be acknowledged in the LGBTQ community,” Reyes Salinas said. Turning to others can also help a person feel the weight — and power — of their community in the wake of the election, he said, and help you “understand that we’re not alone and that there are people fighting and fighting for all of our rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overholt also stresses the intersectionality of community and how organizations like Positive Images will also be seeking to collaborate and build strength through partnerships during this time — in a way that acknowledges that “the queer community is not a monolith,” they said. “We have trans folks with differing documentation statuses. We have Black trans folks. We have a lot of friends that need support, that our organization as a queer organization can only do so much [for].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/031_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/031_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/031_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/031_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/031_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/031_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/031_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign reading, “Black Trans Lives Matter” during a march in San Francisco in March, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this time, “our strength is really going to be in coalition-building and leaning on other organizations like NAACP, like Latino service providers, like our local legal aid to make sure that when things arise, we have the resources at our fingertips,” Overholt said. “So that our friends can take swift action to do what they need to do, to either repair some of that trauma or harm that’s been done or protect against it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, know you’re not alone right now, even if it feels like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Get your documentation in order\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“One of the most important things that you can do right now is make sure that your legal documents are in order,” Overholt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re trans and you’re interested in a \u003ca href=\"https://transcare.ucsf.edu/legal-info-and-namegender-changes\">legal name change or gender indicator change\u003c/a>, “you should file that paperwork tomorrow,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/id/\">Read more about making name or gender indicator changes from the Transgender Law Center. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason this is pressing, Overholt said, is “because that’s probably going to be one of the tools [that Californians will have] to protect ourselves and our access to different resources, in terms of gender-affirming care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) has \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/documents\">a state-by-state guide to changing your state and federal documents\u003c/a>, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your legal name\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your driver’s license or state ID\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your birth certificate\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your U.S. Passport\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your Social Security record\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your immigration documents\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013522]If the bureaucracy of name or gender indicator changes feels daunting to embark on right now, Honey Mahogany said that you seek out support and advice from local LGBTQ+ organizations — who may well have special teams on hand to help you with these processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She specifically recommended the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/\">SF LGBT Center\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com/\">SF Transgender District\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://lyon-martin.org/\">Lyon-Martin Community Health Services\u003c/a> for the support they can provide for folks looking to change their name or gender indicator and “getting your ducks, legally, in order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want people to feel safe,” Mahogany said. “And so, at this point, I’m just encouraging all trans people to do what they think will make them feel safest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about equal marriage? While Project 2025 does not explicitly call for overturning same-sex marriages, the ACLU has said \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/project-2025-is-coming-after-lgbtq-americans/\">the document makes many indirect arguments for treating them as second-class partnerships\u003c/a>. Tom Temprano, managing director of external affairs at Equality California, said that it’s “not a coincidence” that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012822/california-prop-roundup-heres-what-passed-and-what-got-rejected\">California voters overwhelmingly voted to pass Proposition 3 last week\u003c/a>, safeguarding the right to same-sex marriage within the state Constitution — a measure put on the ballot by California Democratic lawmakers to protect against possible federal changes to marriage protections. “The Supreme Court and these extremist judges that Donald Trump appointed have made clear that after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">overturning 40 years of precedent on abortion care\u003c/a>, same-sex marriage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913295/lgbtq-advocates-fear-implications-of-overturning-roe-v-wade\">is next\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11913295]In her own life, Mahogany said that she and her partner are now discussing whether they should get married: “Who knows what’s going to happen if they overturn the right to marry federally?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It must be stressed, however: A huge amount just isn’t known right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seek support — and action — from local resources\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike many parts of the country, the Bay Area has a strong network of community centers, resources and advocacy groups serving the LGBTQ+ community. These organizations often offer everything from community building and assistance with access to health care service to referrals for housing and legal resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t been in touch with your nearest organization yet, now is the time, Reyes Salinas said. “See what resources are available, in addition to checking in with any transgender organizations that you’ve been following and seeing what their advice is” in terms of how to be ready for a second Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are just a few of the local and state resources available to trans folks and their families, in person and online:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/program/resources/\">SF LGBT Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.posimages.org/support\">Positive Images Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-transgender-community-services?_gl=1*1cgn943*_ga*MjI1MTYwNTY4LjE3MzA0MDEzMzI.*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..\">San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com/\">San Francisco Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyon-martin.org/\">Lyon-Martin Community Health Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/transgender-support\">Oakland LGBTQ Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">Lyric Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prevention.ucsf.edu/transguide\">UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you don’t live near a center or cannot travel to one, Reyes Salinas recommends visiting \u003ca href=\"https://transfamilysos.org/\">the TransFamily Support Services website\u003c/a>, which has a list of resources around mental health support and legal and medical support agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Speak to your health care provider\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, reach out to them as soon as you can to get their take. For example, you could ask specific questions about what longer-term access to any medications or services you use looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gender-affirming care looks so different to every trans individual,” stressed Overholt — from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to “things that you can access in a salon or a medical esthetics office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this reason, Overholt recommends that you reach out ASAP to “gender [and] queer-affirming individuals that work in those fields where you receive your gender-affirming care and ask them: ‘What’s the most that I can do to prepare myself, to have access to these resources for the most amount of time I possibly can?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Follow California’s plans for a second Trump presidency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Something the experts that KQED spoke to stressed: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">California’s leaders have been clear about their intention to challenge the actions and policies of a second Trump presidency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, these plans have been in the works for a long time, Mahogany said — noting that “there are many of us” in local government “who have been thinking about things and preparing for … the possibility that we would face another anti-LGBTQ administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013535]During Trump’s first presidency, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/california-vs-trump-lawsuits/\">California sued his administration on average about every 12 days\u003c/a> on issues ranging from immigration to the environment. Now, ahead of a second term, the state’s Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">said California has “thought through all of the possibilities of the attacks on our values\u003c/a>, our people, our state, and we expect certain litigation to come or certain actions to come from the federal government and certain litigation that we will take in response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of different scenarios on a lot of different topics, from immigration to the environment to civil rights to gun safety,” Bonta said. “The list goes on, but we are ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temprano of Equality California said that “fortunately, over the past several years, California has already enacted some of the strongest protections, legal protections and supports for LGBTQ people — and specifically trans people — in the entire nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you’re going to be anywhere in this country in a Trump administration as a queer and specifically trans person, California is the safest and most affirming place in the nation to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany emphasized that this planning is taking place on the local level as well as statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Know here in San Francisco, the Office of Transgender Initiatives is hosting conversations with other trans-serving orgs throughout the city, figuring out what the needs are, what people are saying, what people are feeling, and how we get through the next four years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/16/california-remains-the-worlds-5th-largest-economy/\">California is the fifth-largest economy in the world\u003c/a>,” Mahogany said. “We have a lot of power here, and we shouldn’t be afraid to use it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finally, don’t despair — even if that feels like a tall order right now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The advocates KQED spoke to all acknowledged the deep sorrow and grief that many people in the community are feeling right now — and it’s important not to artificially force yourself into coming to terms with anything if you’re just not there yet. But Overholt said that as an organization, Positive Images want to convey that “all hope is not lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='audience-news']“We are staring into some dark times,” he said. “But there will be light, and we’re going to keep working, and we’re going to stay here. We’ve been here for 34 years. We’re going to be here for at least another 34 more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not to say that it’s not going to be difficult, but persistence is going to be key here,” Overholt said. “We know that the emotional effects of trauma, a shared collective trauma like this, are difficult. But there are resources — and we hope that folks are able to lean on those resources to make sure that they can find some peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community has been resilient and has shown that in many times when we’ve been standing alone, we succeeded because of the community power that is behind this movement,” Reyes Salinas said. He noted that the history of LGBTQ+ resistance to oppression may especially bring comfort to younger trans folks who weren’t adults during the first Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a fight that we’re all in together, and we’ve got this because we’ve got us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by KQED’s Brian Krans.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In her own life, Mahogany said that she and her partner are now discussing whether they should get married: “Who knows what’s going to happen if they overturn the right to marry federally?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It must be stressed, however: A huge amount just isn’t known right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seek support — and action — from local resources\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike many parts of the country, the Bay Area has a strong network of community centers, resources and advocacy groups serving the LGBTQ+ community. These organizations often offer everything from community building and assistance with access to health care service to referrals for housing and legal resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t been in touch with your nearest organization yet, now is the time, Reyes Salinas said. “See what resources are available, in addition to checking in with any transgender organizations that you’ve been following and seeing what their advice is” in terms of how to be ready for a second Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are just a few of the local and state resources available to trans folks and their families, in person and online:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/program/resources/\">SF LGBT Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.posimages.org/support\">Positive Images Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-transgender-community-services?_gl=1*1cgn943*_ga*MjI1MTYwNTY4LjE3MzA0MDEzMzI.*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..\">San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com/\">San Francisco Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyon-martin.org/\">Lyon-Martin Community Health Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/transgender-support\">Oakland LGBTQ Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">Lyric Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prevention.ucsf.edu/transguide\">UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you don’t live near a center or cannot travel to one, Reyes Salinas recommends visiting \u003ca href=\"https://transfamilysos.org/\">the TransFamily Support Services website\u003c/a>, which has a list of resources around mental health support and legal and medical support agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Speak to your health care provider\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, reach out to them as soon as you can to get their take. For example, you could ask specific questions about what longer-term access to any medications or services you use looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gender-affirming care looks so different to every trans individual,” stressed Overholt — from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to “things that you can access in a salon or a medical esthetics office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this reason, Overholt recommends that you reach out ASAP to “gender [and] queer-affirming individuals that work in those fields where you receive your gender-affirming care and ask them: ‘What’s the most that I can do to prepare myself, to have access to these resources for the most amount of time I possibly can?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Follow California’s plans for a second Trump presidency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Something the experts that KQED spoke to stressed: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">California’s leaders have been clear about their intention to challenge the actions and policies of a second Trump presidency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, these plans have been in the works for a long time, Mahogany said — noting that “there are many of us” in local government “who have been thinking about things and preparing for … the possibility that we would face another anti-LGBTQ administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Supporters of criminal justice reform in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012656/proposition-36-californias-newest-tough-on-crime-measure-appears-headed-for-victory\">suffered major losses in last week’s election\u003c/a>. Yet, even those who pushed to rein in the state’s progressive movement warn against seeing the election as a repudiation of those reforms entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most high-profile ballot box outcomes: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-36\">A resounding win for Proposition 36\u003c/a>, which rolled back some criminal justice reforms embraced by voters just a decade ago. And the ousting of progressive prosecutors in two of the state’s largest counties, Los Angeles and Alameda. Los Angeles DA George Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/la-district-attorney-progressive-loses-re-election-gascon-rcna175906\">was handily defeated in his reelection bid\u003c/a>, while Alameda County DA Pamela Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">was voted out in a recall just two years into her term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s just a ratification that Californians are ready for something more moderate than the progressive reforms that we’ve seen in the last few years,” said Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, who helped write Proposition 36. “It was too much too fast, and it resulted in a lot of negative consequences that people could see with their own eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reisig doesn’t see this moment as a return to the tough-on-crime laws that dominated California politics for decades. He and other prosecutors have campaigned for years to pass something like Proposition 36, which increased criminal penalties for repeat thieves and drug users by rolling back portions of an earlier ballot measure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Proposition 47 went too far. And this kind of brings it back to the middle,” he said, noting that the ballot measure emphasized treatment for drug users and gave prosecutors wide discretion to decide whether someone should face a felony charge if they repeatedly steal or are caught possessing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11975692]The measure’s passage with more than 70%of voters backing it – support that came from every corner of the state, Reisig said, “doesn’t negate the righteous arguments that the system needed to be corrected coming out of the ‘90s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the argument law enforcement and conservative politicians made for years against reform,s including Proposition 47, which made most low-level thefts and drug charges misdemeanors instead of felonies. Four years ago, prosecutors and retailers tried unsuccessfully to pass a more draconian rollback of Proposition 47 that focused solely on incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, they took a different tack, leaning into the need for more treatment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012013/can-tough-on-crime-prop-36-solve-theft-drug-use-and-homelessness-despite-no-new-funding\">even though Proposition 36 provides no new funding for those types of programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lenore Anderson, who wrote Proposition 47 and has been a leading national voice for criminal justice reform as president of the Alliance for Safety and Justice, said it’s striking that Proposition 36 was not framed to voters as a return to the harsh incarceration policies of the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proponents of the campaign talked about mass treatment. They talked about a balanced approach to public safety,” she said. “And in that regard, I don’t think you can walk away from looking at how the proponents ran that campaign and say, this was a referendum on criminal justice reform. It just wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12012013]Anderson argues that Proposition 36, which she opposed, was successful precisely because it borrowed cues from the reform movement in focusing on rehabilitation over incarceration. She said those who supported reforms need to better address public concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters have been asking for solutions to the crime and fentanyl issue for years now. And I do think there has been a problem in communicating real-world solutions to concerned Californians,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Bazelon, a fellow at Yale Law School who wrote a book about prosecutor’s power, says the election results reflect public frustration with visible problems like homelessness, fentanyl use and viral videos of shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may explain why progressive district attorneys in both Los Angeles and Alameda counties lost their jobs last week. Gascón, who rode into office four years ago, at the height of the 2020 racial justice protests, promised to roll back his predecessor’s tough policies. 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Juan Ciscomani clinched the Republican House majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats had viewed California — and those competitive districts — as a key piece of their plan to retake the House majority. Although the party has gained ground within the state delegation, Democratic hopes for wider gains were dashed, leaving Republicans to control both chambers of Congress as President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">In the 41st District, which includes the Riverside County cities of Corona, Menifee and Palm Springs, Calvert defeated Democrat Will Rollins in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009362/riverside-rematch-will-help-decide-which-party-controls-the-house\">rematch of the 2022 election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a hard-fought victory that shows voters want someone who will put results over partisan politics,” Calvert said in a statement. “Together, we’ll continue working to secure our border, bring down prices for working families and ensure law enforcement has all the tools they need to keep our communities safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican gains across the Inland Empire may have boosted the 16-term incumbent. Trump visited the Coachella Valley in the closing weeks of the campaign and currently holds a narrow lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in Riverside County, which President Joe Biden won by 8 percentage points in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007594/democrats-are-hoping-to-flip-this-central-valley-house-seat-it-wont-be-easy\">Valadao defeated Rudy Salas\u003c/a> in a rematch from 2022 when Valadao narrowly bested the former Assemblymember. Valadao, a dairy farmer first elected to the House in 2012, appeared to expand his support from 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest returns from the 22nd District show Valadao leading Salas 53% to 47%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao will return to Washington as one of the two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will continue reaching across the aisle to find solutions to increase the Valley’s water supply, make energy more affordable, ensure our law enforcement are well-funded to keep communities safe, create good-paying jobs, and improve our healthcare system,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further north in the 13th District, near Merced, Rep. 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Democrats were exasperated when Garcia won reelection in 2022 despite the removal of the conservative enclave of Simi Valley during the redistricting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014032 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20161109_203307_qed-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitesides, the former CEO of Virgin Galactic, gave more than $1 million to his campaign and ran on a moderate platform supporting tax cuts and more funding for police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the honor of a lifetime to be elected to serve our district in Congress and deliver for Santa Clarita, the Antelope Valley, and the San Fernando Valley,” Whitesides said in a statement. “In Congress, you can count on me to fight to create more good local jobs, lower everyday costs, build safe communities, protect Social Security and Medicare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in Southern California, incumbent Republican \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008573/asian-american-voters-are-key-in-this-orange-county-congressional-race\">Michelle Steel\u003c/a> is narrowly leading Democrat Derek Tran in the 45th District — although recently counted ballots from Orange and Los Angeles counties have significantly narrowed Steel’s advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another Orange County election, Democrat Dave Min defeated Republican Scott Baugh in the 47th District. 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There was a small demonstration at UC Berkeley, and about 100 people marched through the streets of San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly, the response has felt muted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the main outcome for many people who might have been out protesting is the feeling of being dispirited, the feeling of being humbled, the feeling of being out of touch with a lot of America,” said Jon Krosnick, a political psychologist at Stanford University. “Those aren’t the kinds of emotions that are inspiring a protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people KQED spoke with said election results left them feeling defeated. Some are unsure what real impact another march will have. And a significant number of the young people who were coming of age during Trump’s first term say they’re disillusioned with the Democratic Party. While there haven’t been mass protests in the streets, all of these contingents say they are looking toward Trump’s second term and preparing to fight it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Flynt, who is a member of the General Union of Palestine Students at San Francisco State, said there wasn’t a possible election outcome that made Trump’s victory worth protesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t ignore the biggest anti-war movement in over half a century internationally, but also across campuses all across the United States, and expect young people to be excited,” he told KQED. “You can’t move to the right on immigration, brag about building Donald Trump’s border wall, prosecuting transnational gangs, demonizing immigrants and expect Democrats and young people to vote for the Democratic Party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian protesters have been a force on Bay Area college campuses since Israel began its war in Gaza after a Hamas-led attack killed 1,200 people in October 2023. Activists have criticized the Biden administration’s financial support for Israel throughout the war, which has now killed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011429/these-gen-z-voters-are-choosing-kamala-harris-but-gaza-is-still-a-sticking-point\">42,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the presidential election, SF State’s General Union of Palestine Students, along with local pro-Palestine campus organizations, encouraged members not to vote for either Trump or Harris, running a “No more votes for genocide” campaign on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to declare our full support for Palestinian liberation and will not be fooled by a two-party system that continues to be complicit and in full support of the genocide in Gaza,” the organization posted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DBybbr9pPpu/\">Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people between the ages of 18 and 29 did vote at a significantly lower rate — 42% compared to 52% — than in 2020, according to Tufts University’s \u003ca href=\"https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/overall-youth-turnout-down-2020-strong-battleground-states\">Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even among those who were fans of Harris, Krosnick said the election’s circumstances are different now than they were in 2016. Then, it felt implausible that someone who used inflammatory language like Trump would be elected. There was outrage that he lost the popular vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, he won the electoral college more handily and is leading in the popular vote by more than a two-point margin. There’s much less shock because he’s held office before. In general, the feeling is more resignation than anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether those feelings linger or turn into determination and defiance will be an important indicator of how national politics will trend in the near future, Krosnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the part of America that supports the Democratic Party becomes deactivated as a result of this, then the momentum of the Republican Party is going to be tremendous in the coming decades,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans also gained a majority in the Senate, flipping four seats. Control of the House of Representatives has not yet been decided, but Republicans have already picked up two seats from Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protest will be critical for balancing the scales,” Krosnick said, adding that demonstrations will rely on young people to be successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, it’s easier for young people to take the time, he said. They also haven’t seen the political pendulum swing left and right as many times and, in the past, have usually been less disillusioned with the impact they can make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot more people just are taking their time to kind of process, accept what this means and then move forward,” said Zoe Tweedie, the president of the Stanford University chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and Brian Yan, another one of SF State’s General Union of Palestine Students leaders, do believe that young people will activate around Trump’s policies once he is in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yan and Flynt are focused on how the Trump administration handles the war in Gaza. They expect Trump, who has urged Israel to “finish the job” in Gaza, will be less critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think with Trump in office, this could galvanize people,” Yan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They see the second Trump term as an opportunity for Democrats to rally around the pro-Palestine movement and move toward the progressive wing of the party.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12013226,news_12012421,forum_2010101907754\"]“We’re hoping that we see something similar to the attitude around [Black Lives Matter],” Flynt said. “When Donald Trump became president — [creating] the 1776 project, calling BLM terrorists, calling antifa terrorists — all of a sudden, we see \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881731/a-front-row-seat-at-the-woke-theatre\">Nancy Pelosi wearing a Kente cloth\u003c/a>, on her knee, putting her fist up for the Black Lives Matter movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tweedie expects people to focus less on protest and more on advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what you’re going to see and what I’m already seeing a lot more of is rather than negative campaigns, positive campaigns,” she said. “The ACLU is investing time into, ‘How can we protect rights that we’re scared we’re going to lose?’ rather than ‘How can we protest against Trump?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students she’s spoken with want to focus on issue-driven organizing efforts. Tweedie believes state-level mutual aid campaigns and legal fights where abortion restrictions, anti-transgender laws and crackdowns on immigration are the most severe will likely lead Democrats’ resistance to whatever the incoming administration chooses to target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yan agrees that just because there hasn’t been mass protest on the streets doesn’t mean people aren’t focused on how to face the next four years. One of the biggest questions being considered is: “How do we fight back?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe people are thinking it can’t just be big marches through the streets. We have to get organized,” he told KQED. “How do we be more tactful about how to fight back and when? Because the repression is only going to get worse under Trump, and we have to start thinking through, ‘How do we get through that, and how do we keep each other safe?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, California housing advocates are bracing for how a second term could impact the state’s notoriously high home prices, rents and rates of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump promised to fix the country’s growing housing affordability crisis by slashing mortgage rates, reducing regulations and opening federal land for housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark contrast to his first term when housing policy was largely absent from either major candidate’s presidential platforms. This time around, that’s changed, and Trump has recognized housing affordability is a problem, said Matthew Schwartz, executive director of the policy organization the California Housing Partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the Trump administration has four years to fulfill a promise to make housing more affordable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, just how that happens is a point of concern among many California lawmakers, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">to call for a special session\u003c/a> of the Legislature to strategize ways to counteract the more harmful aspects of Trump’s proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are we going to strengthen — from a legal perspective, as well as a policy perspective — the policies that are in place in California,” state Sen. Aisha Wahab (D-Fremont) said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, policymakers in California are wrestling with Democrats’ losses this election — not just nationally but also inside California. Two statewide ballot measures that would have directly helped residents better afford housing — by \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=5&year=2024\">raising money for new affordable housing\u003c/a> and allowing local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=33&year=2024\">strengthen tenant protections\u003c/a> — both failed. A third measure, which would raise \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=32&year=2024\">the minimum wage\u003c/a>, also \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures\">appeared headed toward defeat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us not to have approved propositions that could have supported the people that we say we care about — I think we’re in an identity crisis,” said Nikki Beasley, executive director of Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services. “We say one thing, but we’re actually doing something completely different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how other California housing advocates are thinking about \u003ca href=\"#A\">housing supply\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#B\">federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#C\">homelessness\u003c/a> under a second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Housing supply\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State officials have tasked cities with planning for about 2.5 million new homes in their respective jurisdictions by 2030. But, the number of new homes and apartments that can actually get built is determined by a number of factors; two of the most important are the cost of construction and the amount of red tape developers have to cut through before they can actually build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Lewis, a spokesperson for California YIMBY, said the federal government’s role in local policymaking is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s mostly about some tax policies and funding mechanisms, but not much else,” he said. “What this really points back to is that the role of the state Legislature is even more important now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While lawmakers in California have made significant strides in passing bills to encourage more housing development, many cities have upheld policies or enacted new ones to slow growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta and the state’s housing department have launched several lawsuits against cities in recent years — including Elk Grove, Huntington Beach, Portola, and most recently, the city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/about-hcd/newsroom/governor-newsom-takes-action-against-norwalk-its-unlawful-shelter-ban\">Norwalk\u003c/a> — for violating state housing laws and preventing new housing from being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most likely outcome [of the Trump presidency] is slightly worse than the status quo,” Lewis said. “But even that won’t change if the cities won’t reduce their barriers to build more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the cost of constructing housing, however, Trump’s promises to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013409/immigrant-advocates-anticipate-fight-against-trump-border-policies\">crack down on illegal immigration\u003c/a>, if realized, could grind “the construction industry to a halt,” said Russell Lowery, executive director for the California Rental Housing Association. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/EW-Construction-factsheet.pdf\">23% of the construction industry nationally (PDF)\u003c/a> is made up of undocumented immigrant workers, according to the Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would have a negative impact on supply no matter what,” he said. “If you don’t have people who can build the product, you’re not going to increase supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs could also make the cost of construction materials more expensive, Lowery said. Trump promised to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/trump-trade-policies-will-fuel-freight-rates-consumers-pay-price.html\">blanket tariffs of 10% to 20% on all imports\u003c/a>, which could raise the cost of imported construction supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/how-us-trade-policy-contributes-our-insane-construction-materials-costs\">2018 report from the Cato Institute\u003c/a>, a libertarian think tank, the cost of construction materials increased dramatically after Trump instituted tariffs and trade restrictions during his first term in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it is still unknown how Trump’s policies will shape the housing supply. Lowery said it could take years, perhaps after Trump has left office, to determine the effect his administration had on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The changes that happen at the federal level take time to change the behavior and really impact the rental market in individual states, certainly in a state as large as California,” he said. “It took years to get us into this crisis, and it’s going to take — no matter who is in charge — years to get out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The extent to which a second Trump administration can force its agenda on California remains to be seen, but affordable housing and homelessness policy experts say federal funding could be used as both a carrot and a stick to influence state action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several experts listed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) budget as top concerns. During Trump’s first term, White House officials proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and-moderate-income\">slashing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/president-trump-proposes-drastic-cuts-affordable-housing-programs\">federal funding\u003c/a> for affordable housing, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/fiscal-year-2024-budget-sees-significant-increase-huds-native-american-programs\">\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Congress rebuffed some of those requests\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. With Republicans likely to take control of Congress this year, that guardrail is less secure, said Christopher Martin, policy director at Housing California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could probably move these things now under a new Congress that is just as radically motivated as he is,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon Rapport, California state policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, is most worried about efforts to defund rental subsidy programs for lower-income people, known as Housing Choice Vouchers or Section 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts to those programs lead directly to more people falling into homelessness,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/socal-connected/the-rise-of-homelessness-in-the-1980s#:~:text=The%20second%20key%20event%20was,to%20curtail%20them%20were%20introduced\">citing evidence\u003c/a> that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/proposed-cuts-public-housing-threaten-repeat-1980s-housing-crisis\">rise of\u003c/a> mass \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa127.pdf\">homelessness\u003c/a> in the ’80s corresponded with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/#:~:text=The%20recession%20of%20the%201980s,in%201990)%20and%20in%20subsidized\">major cuts to HUD programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that’s one area where the state could step in to help mitigate the impacts of potentially reduced federal funding. Rapport agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise, we will see significant increases in homelessness for sure,” she said, though she acknowledged the state’s budget deficit presents a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trump-administrations-proposed-mixed-status-housing-rule-another-form-family\">previously endorsed\u003c/a> calls for the eviction of all noncitizens, including those in mixed-status families, from federally subsidized housing, a policy proposal that also appears in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-15.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a> — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">900-page policy playbook\u003c/a> from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy document advocates for doing away with federal commitments to the \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/\">Housing First\u003c/a> approach to homelessness, which prioritizes permanent housing and supportive services. Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">disavowed the agenda\u003c/a> despite the fact that many of its authors \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/politics/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation.html\">served in his first administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the driver of what does work in California,” said Alex Visotzky, senior California policy fellow at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “It’s partially because of California’s commitment to Housing First that the state-funded [Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program] \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/california.business.consumer.services.and.housing.agency/viz/HHAPReport/Overview\">has made 40,000 permanent housing placements\u003c/a> since the beginning of 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Republican-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23504323/housing-first-homelessness-houston-homes\">backlash against Housing First\u003c/a> in recent years, championed most fervently \u003ca href=\"https://ciceroinstitute.org/research/housing-first-is-a-failure/\">by the Cicero Institute\u003c/a>, has helped bring about the rise of punitive approaches to dealing with homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first-term rhetoric and promises for a continuation of those policies point to an extreme agenda, advocates for people experiencing homelessness said, but one which they say mirrors an anti-homeless approach some state and local leaders in California have already embraced.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12013909,news_12012553,news_12012489\"]“We already see it manifesting in cities across California, and the new administration is just going to supercharge it,” said Eric Tars, senior policy director for the National Homelessness Law Center. “We see the next four years as posing a real threat to the rights of homeless people, and that will likely cause a severe growth of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his first term, Trump repeatedly disparaged California over its homelessness crisis, calling it “a disgrace to the nation,” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/10/trump-pushing-major-crackdown-homeless-camps-california-with-aides-discussing-moving-residents-government-backed-facilities/\">pushed for a crackdown on homeless encampments\u003c/a> in the state. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/02/trump_we_may_intercede_on_homelessness_crisis_in_california.html\">floated taking unilateral action\u003c/a> on homelessness in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and aides reportedly discussed moving people living on the streets into government facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s built on that foundation with \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-ending-the-nightmare-of-the-homeless-drug-addicts-and-dangerously-deranged\">promises\u003c/a> to relocate houseless people to “tent cities,” with doctors and social workers on site and institutionalize those with severe mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has also vowed to divert money spent aiding Ukraine and on “shelter and transport of illegal aliens” to \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-ending-veteran-homelessness-in-america\">addressing homelessness\u003c/a>. He’s said he would “ban urban camping wherever possible” and have violators arrested unless they accept drug treatment or services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court removed a significant hurdle to implementing that vision earlier this summer when it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">gave cities the green light\u003c/a> to enforce camping bans regardless of whether or not they have shelter beds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, jurisdictions across California have passed new anti-camping ordinances, and Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">pressured local officials\u003c/a> to seize the opportunity to clear encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eve Garrow, senior policy analyst and advocate at the ACLU of Southern California, wants to see the state push back against a Trump 2.0 agenda, which she calls an “existential threat” to people living on the streets, with a “strong and unequivocal commitment for equal rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sees little appetite for that now among elected leaders who’ve taken an increasingly aggressive approach to the crisis but hopes the political calculus could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could represent a turning point for policy in California if the Newsom administration and local governments are viewed as following in lockstep with a Trump administration,” she said. “It could be a wake-up call and an opportunity to pivot away from Trump-like policies and move in a direction that is effective and caring and nonviolent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the Trump administration has four years to fulfill a promise to make housing more affordable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, just how that happens is a point of concern among many California lawmakers, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">to call for a special session\u003c/a> of the Legislature to strategize ways to counteract the more harmful aspects of Trump’s proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are we going to strengthen — from a legal perspective, as well as a policy perspective — the policies that are in place in California,” state Sen. Aisha Wahab (D-Fremont) said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, policymakers in California are wrestling with Democrats’ losses this election — not just nationally but also inside California. Two statewide ballot measures that would have directly helped residents better afford housing — by \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=5&year=2024\">raising money for new affordable housing\u003c/a> and allowing local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=33&year=2024\">strengthen tenant protections\u003c/a> — both failed. A third measure, which would raise \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=32&year=2024\">the minimum wage\u003c/a>, also \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures\">appeared headed toward defeat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us not to have approved propositions that could have supported the people that we say we care about — I think we’re in an identity crisis,” said Nikki Beasley, executive director of Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services. “We say one thing, but we’re actually doing something completely different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how other California housing advocates are thinking about \u003ca href=\"#A\">housing supply\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#B\">federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#C\">homelessness\u003c/a> under a second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Housing supply\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State officials have tasked cities with planning for about 2.5 million new homes in their respective jurisdictions by 2030. But, the number of new homes and apartments that can actually get built is determined by a number of factors; two of the most important are the cost of construction and the amount of red tape developers have to cut through before they can actually build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Lewis, a spokesperson for California YIMBY, said the federal government’s role in local policymaking is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s mostly about some tax policies and funding mechanisms, but not much else,” he said. “What this really points back to is that the role of the state Legislature is even more important now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While lawmakers in California have made significant strides in passing bills to encourage more housing development, many cities have upheld policies or enacted new ones to slow growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta and the state’s housing department have launched several lawsuits against cities in recent years — including Elk Grove, Huntington Beach, Portola, and most recently, the city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/about-hcd/newsroom/governor-newsom-takes-action-against-norwalk-its-unlawful-shelter-ban\">Norwalk\u003c/a> — for violating state housing laws and preventing new housing from being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most likely outcome [of the Trump presidency] is slightly worse than the status quo,” Lewis said. “But even that won’t change if the cities won’t reduce their barriers to build more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the cost of constructing housing, however, Trump’s promises to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013409/immigrant-advocates-anticipate-fight-against-trump-border-policies\">crack down on illegal immigration\u003c/a>, if realized, could grind “the construction industry to a halt,” said Russell Lowery, executive director for the California Rental Housing Association. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/EW-Construction-factsheet.pdf\">23% of the construction industry nationally (PDF)\u003c/a> is made up of undocumented immigrant workers, according to the Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would have a negative impact on supply no matter what,” he said. “If you don’t have people who can build the product, you’re not going to increase supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs could also make the cost of construction materials more expensive, Lowery said. Trump promised to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/trump-trade-policies-will-fuel-freight-rates-consumers-pay-price.html\">blanket tariffs of 10% to 20% on all imports\u003c/a>, which could raise the cost of imported construction supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/how-us-trade-policy-contributes-our-insane-construction-materials-costs\">2018 report from the Cato Institute\u003c/a>, a libertarian think tank, the cost of construction materials increased dramatically after Trump instituted tariffs and trade restrictions during his first term in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it is still unknown how Trump’s policies will shape the housing supply. Lowery said it could take years, perhaps after Trump has left office, to determine the effect his administration had on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The changes that happen at the federal level take time to change the behavior and really impact the rental market in individual states, certainly in a state as large as California,” he said. “It took years to get us into this crisis, and it’s going to take — no matter who is in charge — years to get out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The extent to which a second Trump administration can force its agenda on California remains to be seen, but affordable housing and homelessness policy experts say federal funding could be used as both a carrot and a stick to influence state action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several experts listed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) budget as top concerns. During Trump’s first term, White House officials proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and-moderate-income\">slashing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/president-trump-proposes-drastic-cuts-affordable-housing-programs\">federal funding\u003c/a> for affordable housing, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/fiscal-year-2024-budget-sees-significant-increase-huds-native-american-programs\">\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Congress rebuffed some of those requests\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. With Republicans likely to take control of Congress this year, that guardrail is less secure, said Christopher Martin, policy director at Housing California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could probably move these things now under a new Congress that is just as radically motivated as he is,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon Rapport, California state policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, is most worried about efforts to defund rental subsidy programs for lower-income people, known as Housing Choice Vouchers or Section 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts to those programs lead directly to more people falling into homelessness,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/socal-connected/the-rise-of-homelessness-in-the-1980s#:~:text=The%20second%20key%20event%20was,to%20curtail%20them%20were%20introduced\">citing evidence\u003c/a> that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/proposed-cuts-public-housing-threaten-repeat-1980s-housing-crisis\">rise of\u003c/a> mass \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa127.pdf\">homelessness\u003c/a> in the ’80s corresponded with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/#:~:text=The%20recession%20of%20the%201980s,in%201990)%20and%20in%20subsidized\">major cuts to HUD programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that’s one area where the state could step in to help mitigate the impacts of potentially reduced federal funding. Rapport agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise, we will see significant increases in homelessness for sure,” she said, though she acknowledged the state’s budget deficit presents a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trump-administrations-proposed-mixed-status-housing-rule-another-form-family\">previously endorsed\u003c/a> calls for the eviction of all noncitizens, including those in mixed-status families, from federally subsidized housing, a policy proposal that also appears in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-15.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a> — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">900-page policy playbook\u003c/a> from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy document advocates for doing away with federal commitments to the \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/\">Housing First\u003c/a> approach to homelessness, which prioritizes permanent housing and supportive services. Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">disavowed the agenda\u003c/a> despite the fact that many of its authors \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/politics/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation.html\">served in his first administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the driver of what does work in California,” said Alex Visotzky, senior California policy fellow at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “It’s partially because of California’s commitment to Housing First that the state-funded [Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program] \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/california.business.consumer.services.and.housing.agency/viz/HHAPReport/Overview\">has made 40,000 permanent housing placements\u003c/a> since the beginning of 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Republican-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23504323/housing-first-homelessness-houston-homes\">backlash against Housing First\u003c/a> in recent years, championed most fervently \u003ca href=\"https://ciceroinstitute.org/research/housing-first-is-a-failure/\">by the Cicero Institute\u003c/a>, has helped bring about the rise of punitive approaches to dealing with homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first-term rhetoric and promises for a continuation of those policies point to an extreme agenda, advocates for people experiencing homelessness said, but one which they say mirrors an anti-homeless approach some state and local leaders in California have already embraced.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President-elect Trump announced Sunday night that Tom Homan, his former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will join his second administration to oversee border control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his role as “border czar” — which does not require Senate confirmation — Homan will be in charge of the southern and northern U.S. borders, as well as “all Maritime and Aviation Security,” Trump said in his \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113462412414821782\">post on Truth Social\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin,” Trump wrote, adding that “there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear what role Homan will take, since managing immigration requires coordination between several agencies under the Department of Homeland Security.[aside postID=news_12011983 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Homan, a former police officer and Border Patrol agent, has worked under six presidents during his three decades in law enforcement. He was executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Obama. During that administration, ICE carried out a record number of deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honan repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/trump-2024-rnc-milwaukee#former-acting-ice-director-tells-undocumented-immigrants-to-start-packing\">praised Trump\u003c/a> for being the one who did the most to secure the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday’s announcement was largely expected, as Trump had said \u003ca href=\"https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/07/15/rnc-chair-whatley-trump-project-2025\">over the summer\u003c/a> that he would tap Homan to help oversee immigration policies in his potential second term. Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference in July, Homan \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/14/nx-s1-5037992/trump-immigrants-border-mass-deportation-presidential-race-migrants\">told undocumented immigrants\u003c/a> to “wait till 2025,” adding, “If you’re here illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump comes back in January,” Homan said. “I’ll be on his heels coming back. And I will run the biggest deportation operation this country’s ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">Homan was behind Trump’s controversial family separation policy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Homan was the face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration during his tenure as acting director of ICE from January 2017 to June 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, he often appeared at White House press briefings to defend his agents’ arrests of undocumented immigrants and call for stronger enforcement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/10/politics/tom-homan-border-czar-ice-donald-trump/index.html\">according to CNN\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-says-he-will-install-fomer-ice-chief-tom-homan-as-new-border-czar/2019/06/14/db9a88d4-8ea8-11e9-b08e-cfd89bd36d4e_story.html\">applauded Trump\u003c/a> for “taking the shackles off” ICE by allowing agents to make a broader range of arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Homan was one of the architects behind its controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/\">family separation policy\u003c/a>. More than 5,500 children of immigrants were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018 under the administration’s short-lived “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116738450/how-the-family-separation-policy-came-to-be\">Zero Tolerance\u003c/a>” policy. According to the Department of Homeland Security, as of April, there were still 1,401 children \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/24_0422_sec_frtf-interim-progress-report-final-508.pdf\">without confirmed reunification\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump signed an executive order stopping family separations in June 2018 after much condemnation from lawmakers and the public, and the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961048895/justice-department-rescinds-trumps-zero-tolerance-immigration-policy\">officially rescinded it\u003c/a> days after President Biden took office in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homan retired in frustration in 2018 when the White House failed to move his nomination toward Senate confirmation, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-says-he-will-install-fomer-ice-chief-tom-homan-as-new-border-czar/2019/06/14/db9a88d4-8ea8-11e9-b08e-cfd89bd36d4e_story.html\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>He became a Fox News contributor, joined the conservative Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/politics/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation.html\">contributed to Project 2025\u003c/a>, its controversial blueprint for reshaping the federal government\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump had sought to distance himself from Project 2025 during his campaign, even though it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/05/g-s1-32720/what-is-project-2025-trump-election\">overlaps with his own agenda\u003c/a>. Trump made immigration a major part of his campaign and has vowed to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country without authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">Homan has warned undocumented immigrants to ‘start packing’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Homan spoke about how such deportations would work in an interview on Fox \u003cem>Sunday Morning Futures \u003c/em>hours before his appointment was announced, saying it would be a “well-targeted, planned operation, conducted … by the men of ICE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we go out there we’re gonna know who we’re looking for, we most likely know where they’re going to be and it’s gonna be done in a humane manner,” Homan said, adding that it will focus on the “public safety threats and the national security threats first.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12013409,news_12013693,news_12013535\"]But those groups won’t be the only targets, Homan told \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mass-deportation-plan-cost-consequences-60-minutes-transcript/\">CBS’ \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last month. 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And analysts from the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute and the Niskanen Center project that lower — potentially even negative — net migration to the U.S. would hurt the country’s economy, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5181327/trump-election-economy-tariffs-deportations\">NPR has reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homan is not the only appointee that Trump has named for his upcoming term. He announced last week that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/07/nx-s1-5183242/trump-chief-of-staff-susie-wiles\">Susie Wiles\u003c/a> will be his chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Trump offered Rep. Elise Stefanik, the New York Republican who chairs the House Republican Conference, to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> said he would eliminate the Department of Education and cut funding to K–12 schools as he campaigned. He denounced efforts by the Biden administration to forgive student loans. Now that the former president has been reelected, his second term in office is almost certain to spell trouble for public education, including in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>, home to the largest public school system in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California education officials are already calling on President-elect Trump to protect public school funding but are preparing for the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond addressed concerns at a press conference on Friday, surrounded by teachers holding “Education is for everyone” and “Protect all students” signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a partisan issue,” he said. “This is an issue of continuing to assure that students have access to the resources that they are entitled to under the law. And we will continue to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump follows through on his vow to abolish the Department of Education, California could face a nearly $8 billion loss in funding for public education. If that happens, Thurmond said he would call on the state Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office to backfill that funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll see where things end up, but we are already prepared to take legislative action and steps to protect funding in education,” Thurmond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s already heard from educators worried about the threat to their most vulnerable students, including those from immigrant families, as well as those enrolled in special education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘If the U.S. Department of Education is abolished, does that mean that we’re getting rid of special education services for California students?’ And let me be clear: We will not be ever getting rid of special education services in the great state of California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term, he rolled back many Obama-era protections for marginalized students, including students of color and transgender students. Then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded Obama’s Title IX guidance for transgender students, which allowed them to use restrooms and locker rooms that matched their gender identity. Trump’s administration also tossed Obama-era civil rights efforts in schools, including a policy aimed at preventing schools from disproportionately disciplining students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every education-related rollback was successful. For instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/trump-budget-would-make-massive-cuts-to-ed-dept-but-boost-school-choice/2017/03\">Trump tried to cut funding\u003c/a> to the Department of Education by 13% and eliminate popular programs like after-school programs and teacher training, but a Republican-controlled Congress rejected those efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, California educators are worried about the damage a second Trump presidency could do to their schools and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure we have a safe space for every student, regardless of their immigration status,” said Jeff Freitas, president of the California Federation of Teachers and a high school math teacher. “We want to make sure this is a safe space for every LGBTQ+ student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decrease in funding would be especially troublesome in the Bay Area, where local school districts are already under financial strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Unified School District is currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006395/sf-school-district-should-focus-on-budget-before-deciding-on-campus-closures-breed-says\">facing a massive budget deficit\u003c/a>, which has forced it to consider closing and merging some schools, causing outcry among parents, teachers and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s school district is also grappling with a big budget deficit of $174 million. On Friday, the district announced \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\"> to merge 10 campuses\u003c/a> to reduce costs.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12013558,news_12013269,forum_2010101907754\"]“At a time when we’re facing a fiscal cliff for other reasons, losing $10 million here or $10 million there … it would be really serious for us,” said Sam Davis, outgoing president of the Oakland Unified School District board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal funding accounts for about 7% of the district’s funding, according to Davis. That includes funding for Title I programs, which provide academic opportunities for lower-income students, as well as for special education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the district’s funding, though, comes from the state. And Davis said he’s encouraged by Thurmond’s commitment to backfill funding should the federal dollars go away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term in office, Davis said the district didn’t face significant cuts despite Trump’s focus on education privatization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last time around, what we saw was an incompetent administration and a lot of infighting, so they weren’t very effective at implementing their agenda,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, Davis said the guardrails have come off, and he’s worried about the extreme plans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">laid out in Project 2025\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said he’s most concerned for the more vulnerable students in the district, especially those from immigrant families. Oakland has one of the highest proportional populations of students who have been in the U.S. for fewer than three years in the state, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to supporting our families through this difficult time,” he said. “I think we just need to be clear-eyed about the fight that we have on our hands over the next four years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“At a time when we’re facing a fiscal cliff for other reasons, losing $10 million here or $10 million there … it would be really serious for us,” said Sam Davis, outgoing president of the Oakland Unified School District board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal funding accounts for about 7% of the district’s funding, according to Davis. That includes funding for Title I programs, which provide academic opportunities for lower-income students, as well as for special education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the district’s funding, though, comes from the state. And Davis said he’s encouraged by Thurmond’s commitment to backfill funding should the federal dollars go away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term in office, Davis said the district didn’t face significant cuts despite Trump’s focus on education privatization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last time around, what we saw was an incompetent administration and a lot of infighting, so they weren’t very effective at implementing their agenda,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, Davis said the guardrails have come off, and he’s worried about the extreme plans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">laid out in Project 2025\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said he’s most concerned for the more vulnerable students in the district, especially those from immigrant families. Oakland has one of the highest proportional populations of students who have been in the U.S. for fewer than three years in the state, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to supporting our families through this difficult time,” he said. “I think we just need to be clear-eyed about the fight that we have on our hands over the next four years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Following President-elect Trump’s victory — which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/g-s1-33274/2024-election-how-trump-won-takeaways\">fueled by male voters\u003c/a> and to many looked like a referendum on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5175072/how-the-gender-gap-played-out-in-the-2024-election\">reproductive rights\u003c/a> — some young American women are talking about boycotting men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea comes from the South Korean movement known as 4B, or the 4 No’s (\u003cem>bi\u003c/em> means “not” in Korean). It calls for the refusal of dating men (\u003cem>biyeonae\u003c/em>), sexual relationships with men (\u003cem>bisekseu\u003c/em>), heterosexual marriage (\u003cem>bihon\u003c/em>) and childbirth (\u003cem>bichulsan\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest in the 4B movement has surged in the days since the election, with \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/1854312789847720088\">Google searches spiking\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/search/user?q=4bmovement&t=1731019154913\">hashtag taking off\u003c/a> on social media. Scores of young women are exploring and promoting the idea in posts on platforms like \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/shellshockkk/status/1854310178398593523\">TikTok\u003c/a> and X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s time for American women to participate in our own 4B movement,” one woman \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/chrissturnsgf/status/1854228285439250733\">posted on TikTok\u003c/a>. “If men won’t respect our bodies, they don’t get access to our bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lalisasaura/status/1854042360415412584\">one tweet\u003c/a> with over 470,000 likes. “We can’t let these men have the last laugh … we need to bite back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to close off your wombs to males,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/solitasims/status/1854042435695129072\">another viral post\u003c/a>. “This election proves now more than ever that they hate us & hate us proudly. Do not reward them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several recent tweets from far-right men with large social media followings would seem to illustrate their point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholas Fuentes, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier — whom Trump was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1139742844/republicans-denounce-trump-dinner-white-supremacist-nick-fuentes\">criticized for hosting at a dinner\u003c/a> at his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022 — \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1854015641218355621\">tweeted,\u003c/a> “Your body, my choice. Forever,” as the results turned in Trump’s favor on Election Night. The tweet got 40,000 likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media users have since \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RachelCharleneL/status/1854378042728022417\">noticed a pattern of men commenting\u003c/a> that phrase, or similar, on women’s TikTok posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, Jon Miller, who describes himself as a moderate and “fair & balanced political commentator,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MillerStream/status/1854247807735214298\">tweeted on Wednesday\u003c/a>, “women threatening sex strikes like LMAO as if you have a say.” The post has gotten over 50 million views, sparked considerable backlash and was appended with a community note clarifying that sex without consent is rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ju Hui Judy Han, a gender studies professor at the University of California Los Angeles who also specializes in Korean studies, says the growing interest in 4B at this moment is understandable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, this is about American women trying to find sources of leverage, sources of empowerment that can, in the short-term, make them feel like they have some agency … in these dire times, with the election and \u003cem>Roe v. 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That’s one of the reasons South Korea has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/1163341684/south-korea-fertility-rate\">lowest fertility rate in the world\u003c/a>, down to 0.78% in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low fertility rate has been a source of alarm among Korean policymakers, and criticism by anti-feminists who blame 4B and other similar movements, Han says. But she says it would be a stretch to blame 4B for causing the decline in childbirths, and in fact, sees it as a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about young women saying to policymakers: ‘You want us to get married and have children, you have to make this world a better place for us to live,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was elected in 2022, campaigned in part on abolishing the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, which coordinated and implemented policies promoting women’s rights. That move was condemned by many women in South Korea and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/save-gender-equality-ministry-in-south-korea/\">human rights groups\u003c/a> internationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>High-profile incidents spurred feminist movements like 4B\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A series of events over the past near-decade fueled the South Korean feminist movement and the rise of 4B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was the 2016 murder of a 23-year-old woman in a public bathroom in Seoul’s central Gangnam Station, which the perpetrator later \u003ca href=\"https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/744756.html\">said he did\u003c/a> because “women have always ignored me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of feminists and a lot of women came together and posted sticky notes all over the station talking about their own stories,” says Shruti Sivakumar, an Indiana University senior who is writing her capstone on the 4B movement. “And that was just sort of a reboot, I guess, of feminist activism in Korea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, South Korea experienced a rise in what the country calls “\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6154837/open-shutters-south-korea-spycam-molka/\">digital sex crimes\u003c/a>,” with hidden cameras recording women in public areas like bathrooms and changing rooms and uploading the footage to pornographic websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those factors, combined with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37971085\">presidential corruption scandal\u003c/a> in 2016, saw millions of South Koreans protesting in the streets for various causes, Han says, and women’s rights was one of them. Those protests continued in the years that followed as the #MeToo movement took hold in the U.S. and around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a rise in online feminist activism around the same time, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/07/29/487832991/south-korea-is-contending-with-a-gamergate-of-its-own-over-a-t-shirt\">controversial social movement\u003c/a> known as Megalia. Another, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/06/703749983/south-korean-women-escape-the-corset-and-reject-their-countrys-beauty-ideals\">Break the Corset\u003c/a>, saw young South Korean women smashing their makeup palettes and cutting their hair short in defiance of beauty standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter 4B, somewhere around 2019. It doesn’t have an elected leader or membership structure. It spreads on social media and through word of mouth, and there’s no way to know exactly how many women have participated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a church, it’s not a cult. It’s more, I think, kind of a state of mind and a set of priorities,” Han said. “What I think is most important is that it’s about women recognizing that they’re in a collective struggle, and that there’s a collective sense of frustration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4B is a commitment not without consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Han says given the dire situation in South Korea — including a \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10788386/\">notably high suicide rate\u003c/a> among women in their 20s — the 4B movement isn’t coming from a playful or flippant place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Sivakumar describes it as a “last resort” for women who are trying to disentangle their lives from the patriarchy in the name of lasting social and economic independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not meant to be a movement or a form of activism that you’re able to just pick up for one month and just drop as soon as you find someone that you really like and want to talk to,” she added. “It’s supposed to be sort of a form of sacrifice, that for the rest of your life you’re going to be independent from men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That commitment can come with consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feminists — including 4B participants — in South Korea have faced considerable backlash, especially from men, Han said. For example, the country’s president last year suggested that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/south-korea-fertility-rate-feminism.html#:~:text=President%20Yoon%20Suk%2Dyeol%2C%20elected,'ve%20seen%2C%20is%20retaliation.\">feminism is to blame\u003c/a> for blocking “healthy relationships” between men and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Han thinks it likely that American women exploring 4B could see backlash from their immediate circle just for “exercising their right to do these obvious things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Declaring yourself to be a feminist in an anti-feminist world can have consequences,” Han said. “I think any sort of refusal to participate in the status quo could obviously have some negative consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As some social media users have pointed out, 4B is as much about cutting ties with men as it is \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/rusticfem/status/1854251241062433247\">supporting other women\u003c/a>. Sivakumar says the intended target is women’s autonomy rather than necessarily seeking to punish men, calling it an “individual effort on behalf of women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The support of a collective is what makes the movement so powerful, Han said, adding that she hopes it will lead to more hands-on organizing for social change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One individual refusing to have sex is just one individual refusing to have sex,” Han said. “But when they recognize other women doing the same thing or wanting to share their frustration and their pursuit of agency in doing something collectively, now that’s a start of something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could 4B catch on in the US?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many in the U.S. see Trump’s victory as a referendum on women’s rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former president has been accused of sexual misconduct by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/g-s1-29963/stacey-williams-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein\">dozens of women\u003c/a> dating back decades and was found \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1175071486/jury-finds-trump-liable-for-sexual-abuse-in-e-jean-carrolls-civil-case\">liable for sexual abuse\u003c/a> by a jury. Despite saying he opposes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/08/1243363396/trump-abortion\">nationwide abortion ban\u003c/a>, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-was-able-kill-roe-v-wade-rcna84897\">has bragged\u003c/a> about appointing the Supreme Court justices who led to the reversal of \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em>. His running mate, Vice President-elect Vance, drew widespread ire for his comments about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5055616/jd-vance-childless-cat-lady-history\">childless cat ladies\u003c/a>” over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Vice President Harris had made \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/10/nx-s1-5099060/harris-campaign-abortion-reproductive-freedom-bus-tour-ivf-trump\">protecting abortion rights\u003c/a> a central feature of her ultimately unsuccessful campaign to become the first female president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump made narrow gains among both women and men compared to 2020, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latinos-black-voters-0f3fbda3362f3dcfe41aa6b858f22d12\">Associated Press\u003c/a> — but won men in every single age group. Exit polls show \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/exit-polls-2024-election/?itid=lk_inline_manual_31\">55% of American men\u003c/a> voted for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I completely see the appeal right now after the election, I’m just so angry with men as a whole,” said Keara Sullivan, a 25-year-old comedian based in Brooklyn who has been hearing a lot about 4B online in recent days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan feels strongly that women “should stop dating and marrying and having sex with men who actively vote against their human rights.” But she has concerns about aspects of the 4B movement, including worrying that women abstaining from sex could be seen as playing right into ultra-conservatives’ wishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Sullivan thinks it’s a good thing that people are talking about a U.S. 4B movement. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Following President-elect Trump’s victory — which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/g-s1-33274/2024-election-how-trump-won-takeaways\">fueled by male voters\u003c/a> and to many looked like a referendum on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5175072/how-the-gender-gap-played-out-in-the-2024-election\">reproductive rights\u003c/a> — some young American women are talking about boycotting men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea comes from the South Korean movement known as 4B, or the 4 No’s (\u003cem>bi\u003c/em> means “not” in Korean). It calls for the refusal of dating men (\u003cem>biyeonae\u003c/em>), sexual relationships with men (\u003cem>bisekseu\u003c/em>), heterosexual marriage (\u003cem>bihon\u003c/em>) and childbirth (\u003cem>bichulsan\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest in the 4B movement has surged in the days since the election, with \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/1854312789847720088\">Google searches spiking\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/search/user?q=4bmovement&t=1731019154913\">hashtag taking off\u003c/a> on social media. Scores of young women are exploring and promoting the idea in posts on platforms like \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/shellshockkk/status/1854310178398593523\">TikTok\u003c/a> and X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s time for American women to participate in our own 4B movement,” one woman \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/chrissturnsgf/status/1854228285439250733\">posted on TikTok\u003c/a>. “If men won’t respect our bodies, they don’t get access to our bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lalisasaura/status/1854042360415412584\">one tweet\u003c/a> with over 470,000 likes. “We can’t let these men have the last laugh … we need to bite back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to close off your wombs to males,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/solitasims/status/1854042435695129072\">another viral post\u003c/a>. “This election proves now more than ever that they hate us & hate us proudly. Do not reward them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several recent tweets from far-right men with large social media followings would seem to illustrate their point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholas Fuentes, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier — whom Trump was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1139742844/republicans-denounce-trump-dinner-white-supremacist-nick-fuentes\">criticized for hosting at a dinner\u003c/a> at his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022 — \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1854015641218355621\">tweeted,\u003c/a> “Your body, my choice. Forever,” as the results turned in Trump’s favor on Election Night. The tweet got 40,000 likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media users have since \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RachelCharleneL/status/1854378042728022417\">noticed a pattern of men commenting\u003c/a> that phrase, or similar, on women’s TikTok posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, Jon Miller, who describes himself as a moderate and “fair & balanced political commentator,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MillerStream/status/1854247807735214298\">tweeted on Wednesday\u003c/a>, “women threatening sex strikes like LMAO as if you have a say.” The post has gotten over 50 million views, sparked considerable backlash and was appended with a community note clarifying that sex without consent is rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ju Hui Judy Han, a gender studies professor at the University of California Los Angeles who also specializes in Korean studies, says the growing interest in 4B at this moment is understandable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, this is about American women trying to find sources of leverage, sources of empowerment that can, in the short-term, make them feel like they have some agency … in these dire times, with the election and \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> behind us,” Han told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, she was surprised to see it take off so suddenly this week, in large part because the movement is so specific to South Korean society and what she describes as its “culture of compulsory marriage” and childbirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where did 4B come from — and could it catch on somewhere else?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For context, gender inequality is deeply rooted in South Korea\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Han describes 4B as a relatively small movement that began as an offshoot of the growing feminist movement in South Korea, driven by structural misogyny and gender discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Korea ranked 99 out of 146 in the World Economic Forum’s 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2024/digest/\">Global Gender Gap Index\u003c/a>, and for decades has had the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/03/1135162927/women-feminism-south-korea-sexism-protest-haeil-yoon\">largest pay gap\u003c/a> among the countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) — it was 31% in 2021, compared to about 16% in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Economist’s glass-ceiling index ranked it the \u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/glass-ceiling-index\">worst OECD country\u003c/a> for working women in 2022, in part because of strict maternity leave policies that force many women to choose between career and family. That’s one of the reasons South Korea has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/1163341684/south-korea-fertility-rate\">lowest fertility rate in the world\u003c/a>, down to 0.78% in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low fertility rate has been a source of alarm among Korean policymakers, and criticism by anti-feminists who blame 4B and other similar movements, Han says. But she says it would be a stretch to blame 4B for causing the decline in childbirths, and in fact, sees it as a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about young women saying to policymakers: ‘You want us to get married and have children, you have to make this world a better place for us to live,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was elected in 2022, campaigned in part on abolishing the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, which coordinated and implemented policies promoting women’s rights. That move was condemned by many women in South Korea and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/save-gender-equality-ministry-in-south-korea/\">human rights groups\u003c/a> internationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>High-profile incidents spurred feminist movements like 4B\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A series of events over the past near-decade fueled the South Korean feminist movement and the rise of 4B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was the 2016 murder of a 23-year-old woman in a public bathroom in Seoul’s central Gangnam Station, which the perpetrator later \u003ca href=\"https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/744756.html\">said he did\u003c/a> because “women have always ignored me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of feminists and a lot of women came together and posted sticky notes all over the station talking about their own stories,” says Shruti Sivakumar, an Indiana University senior who is writing her capstone on the 4B movement. “And that was just sort of a reboot, I guess, of feminist activism in Korea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, South Korea experienced a rise in what the country calls “\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6154837/open-shutters-south-korea-spycam-molka/\">digital sex crimes\u003c/a>,” with hidden cameras recording women in public areas like bathrooms and changing rooms and uploading the footage to pornographic websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those factors, combined with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37971085\">presidential corruption scandal\u003c/a> in 2016, saw millions of South Koreans protesting in the streets for various causes, Han says, and women’s rights was one of them. Those protests continued in the years that followed as the #MeToo movement took hold in the U.S. and around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a rise in online feminist activism around the same time, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/07/29/487832991/south-korea-is-contending-with-a-gamergate-of-its-own-over-a-t-shirt\">controversial social movement\u003c/a> known as Megalia. Another, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/06/703749983/south-korean-women-escape-the-corset-and-reject-their-countrys-beauty-ideals\">Break the Corset\u003c/a>, saw young South Korean women smashing their makeup palettes and cutting their hair short in defiance of beauty standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter 4B, somewhere around 2019. It doesn’t have an elected leader or membership structure. It spreads on social media and through word of mouth, and there’s no way to know exactly how many women have participated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a church, it’s not a cult. It’s more, I think, kind of a state of mind and a set of priorities,” Han said. “What I think is most important is that it’s about women recognizing that they’re in a collective struggle, and that there’s a collective sense of frustration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4B is a commitment not without consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Han says given the dire situation in South Korea — including a \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10788386/\">notably high suicide rate\u003c/a> among women in their 20s — the 4B movement isn’t coming from a playful or flippant place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Sivakumar describes it as a “last resort” for women who are trying to disentangle their lives from the patriarchy in the name of lasting social and economic independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not meant to be a movement or a form of activism that you’re able to just pick up for one month and just drop as soon as you find someone that you really like and want to talk to,” she added. “It’s supposed to be sort of a form of sacrifice, that for the rest of your life you’re going to be independent from men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That commitment can come with consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feminists — including 4B participants — in South Korea have faced considerable backlash, especially from men, Han said. For example, the country’s president last year suggested that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/south-korea-fertility-rate-feminism.html#:~:text=President%20Yoon%20Suk%2Dyeol%2C%20elected,'ve%20seen%2C%20is%20retaliation.\">feminism is to blame\u003c/a> for blocking “healthy relationships” between men and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Han thinks it likely that American women exploring 4B could see backlash from their immediate circle just for “exercising their right to do these obvious things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Declaring yourself to be a feminist in an anti-feminist world can have consequences,” Han said. “I think any sort of refusal to participate in the status quo could obviously have some negative consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As some social media users have pointed out, 4B is as much about cutting ties with men as it is \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/rusticfem/status/1854251241062433247\">supporting other women\u003c/a>. Sivakumar says the intended target is women’s autonomy rather than necessarily seeking to punish men, calling it an “individual effort on behalf of women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The support of a collective is what makes the movement so powerful, Han said, adding that she hopes it will lead to more hands-on organizing for social change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One individual refusing to have sex is just one individual refusing to have sex,” Han said. “But when they recognize other women doing the same thing or wanting to share their frustration and their pursuit of agency in doing something collectively, now that’s a start of something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could 4B catch on in the US?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many in the U.S. see Trump’s victory as a referendum on women’s rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former president has been accused of sexual misconduct by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/g-s1-29963/stacey-williams-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein\">dozens of women\u003c/a> dating back decades and was found \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1175071486/jury-finds-trump-liable-for-sexual-abuse-in-e-jean-carrolls-civil-case\">liable for sexual abuse\u003c/a> by a jury. Despite saying he opposes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/08/1243363396/trump-abortion\">nationwide abortion ban\u003c/a>, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-was-able-kill-roe-v-wade-rcna84897\">has bragged\u003c/a> about appointing the Supreme Court justices who led to the reversal of \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em>. His running mate, Vice President-elect Vance, drew widespread ire for his comments about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5055616/jd-vance-childless-cat-lady-history\">childless cat ladies\u003c/a>” over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Vice President Harris had made \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/10/nx-s1-5099060/harris-campaign-abortion-reproductive-freedom-bus-tour-ivf-trump\">protecting abortion rights\u003c/a> a central feature of her ultimately unsuccessful campaign to become the first female president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump made narrow gains among both women and men compared to 2020, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latinos-black-voters-0f3fbda3362f3dcfe41aa6b858f22d12\">Associated Press\u003c/a> — but won men in every single age group. Exit polls show \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/exit-polls-2024-election/?itid=lk_inline_manual_31\">55% of American men\u003c/a> voted for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I completely see the appeal right now after the election, I’m just so angry with men as a whole,” said Keara Sullivan, a 25-year-old comedian based in Brooklyn who has been hearing a lot about 4B online in recent days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan feels strongly that women “should stop dating and marrying and having sex with men who actively vote against their human rights.” But she has concerns about aspects of the 4B movement, including worrying that women abstaining from sex could be seen as playing right into ultra-conservatives’ wishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Sullivan thinks it’s a good thing that people are talking about a U.S. 4B movement. 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