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The move came in an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033527/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act\">deport Venezuelan nationals\u003c/a> who Trump alleged were part of Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization on the administration’s foreign terrorist list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a measure has only been taken three times in U.S. history — during the War of 1812 and the first and second World Wars — and can only be employed by a president if they determine that a foreign government is conducting an “invasion” outside of wartime, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11269\">according to Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears that this administration is returning to an effort to regulate ideology among non-civilians in this country,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040480\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on May 15, 2025, in a case challenging the Trump administration’s effort to limit who gets birthright citizenship. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An immigration judge in September ordered that Khalil should be deported for withholding information in his green card application, but his case is still undergoing an appeal. 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Gavin Newsom speaks about California redistricting plans at a press conference at the Democracy Center, Japanese American Museum on August 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Newsom spoke about a possible California referendum on redistricting to counter the legislative effort to add five Republican House seats in the state of Texas. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055461/california-lawmakers-reach-last-minute-deals-on-climate-energy\">last-minute negotiations\u003c/a> on a multi-pronged climate and energy policy deal earlier this fall, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Before she applied for food assistance through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Santa Clara University student Kaylee Jensen remembers the anxiety she felt when thinking about how she was going to juggle paying for her rent with affording her next meal — all while studying miles from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when a staff member from her college’s basic needs program helped her apply for CalFresh, California’s version of SNAP, Jensen said, “it was like ‘night and day’ difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could eat so much better,” Jensen, now 20, said. As a supplementary program, CalFresh is “not something you can really rely on fully, but it honestly changed so much for me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it came to finally being able to afford certain kinds of fresh food, CalFresh “really just unlocked a whole new level of eating for me,” Jensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At SCU, a private college, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/santa-clara-university\">71% of students come from families in the top 20% of earners. \u003c/a>Jensen, a first-generation college student, said she told virtually no one that she was receiving benefits — including her friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students on campus at Santa Clara University on Nov. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“SNAP or EBT is almost like a bad word,” she said. “It’s almost an embarrassing part of shame that you’re holding within you … Like, oh, ‘I’m trying to catch up to everyone else, but I can barely afford to live, let alone to eat.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jensen is no longer using CalFresh, she was one of over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=55416\">41 million people\u003c/a> nationwide who depend on SNAP to put food on the table — a group that’s seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">their November benefits delayed\u003c/a> due to what is now the longest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a> in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">CalFresh recipients in the state have finally begun receiving this month’s benefits \u003c/a>after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">a federal judge’s ruling, and Congress discusses a deal to end the shutdown, President Donald Trump’s administration is now fighting the states in the courts to\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063660/california-moves-to-protect-calfresh-payments-from-federal-confusion-and-chaos\"> “undo” this month’s SNAP money\u003c/a> — leaving recipients in even more confusion and anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown delays have sharply highlighted just how many people in California — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">around 5.5 million people\u003c/a> — rely on SNAP. But among the program’s seniors, families, single parents and veterans, college students like Jensen are a group that’s often overlooked when it comes to depending on CalFresh to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hunger on campus\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over 400,000 public university and college students participate in CalFresh statewide — a number that surprises people, according to Jennifer Hogg, a senior research manager at the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people don’t think of college students when they think of who is impacted by the SNAP shut off,” Hogg said. “But today’s college student is largely lower-income — potentially first-generation — and doesn’t have a ton of financial support from home.” And as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/politics/fact-check-beef-grocery-prices-trump-vis\">groceries have become more and more expensive\u003c/a>, some colleges are also \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6520682/\">located in food deserts\u003c/a>, making it even harder to find fresh, substantial meals.[aside postID=news_12063660 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP.jpg']Jensen noted it’s common for college students to darkly joke among themselves about how little they’ve eaten that day, as they juggle studies and extracurriculars. But that could normalize the hunger, she said. According to \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">a UCLA study\u003c/a> from earlier this year, half of the California college students surveyed said they experienced food insecurity, and 28% of respondents said they’d skipped a meal in the past because they couldn’t afford to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re having to deal with those things, it’s impossible to think about the larger academic responsibilities that you have,” Jensen said. “I couldn’t focus on anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/news/analysis-shows-govt-shutdown-could-lead-to-at-least-414000-college-students-not-receiving-their-nov-calfresh-benefits/\">California Policy Lab’s data\u003c/a> includes students from the 2022 to 2023 academic school year at California Community Colleges, the University of California and the California State University systems. The data does not include students like Jensen, who attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the data, over 58,000 CalFresh recipients are within the University of California system, including Berkeley transfer student LisaMarie Fusco, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062685/eating-for-survival-with-november-snap-delays-how-will-bay-area-families-cope\">told KQED she was “broken-hearted” by the SNAP delays\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m devastated,” she said. “People are really tired. We’re done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to juggling the demands of her academic studies with reduced access to school, “I’ll have to bite the bullet and maybe just continue writing and not think about food,” Fusco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The November delays in SNAP payments due to the government shutdown are keeping around $56 million from the hundreds of thousands of students on CalFresh this month, according to the California Policy Lab’s estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a huge amount of money that we’re talking about — that families and individuals across our state aren’t getting this month, and that isn’t going to support our economy,” Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The view from community colleges\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the government shutdown stretched into October, some college administrators and experts began warning about a possible delay in benefits — and planning for the consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools like Chabot College were immediately “trying to brainstorm how to respond …. even before students were receiving letters from the county about their benefits being impacted,” explained Muna Taqi-Eddin, the college’s CalFresh Outreach Specialist.[aside postID=news_12062743 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-03-BL-KQED.jpg']College campuses quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-Steps-Up-to-Support-Students-Amid-CalFresh-Delays.aspx\">deployed resources\u003c/a> for students, including expanding existing food pantries on campus and distributing grocery gift cards and fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some colleges have also made emergency grants available to affected students. Evergreen Valley College in San Jose secured $100,000 worth of emergency funding for 250 students, according to a college spokesperson. It’s money that the college hopes could help alleviate some pressures facing students, said Sean Dickerson, Evergreen Valley College’s Interim Director of Student Development, Engagement, & Inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his role, Dickerson has encountered students who’ve told him they’ve been unable to focus and engage fully in their studies as they miss their November payments, ahead of their upcoming midterm exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the increase of stress and anxiety,” he said — and students are wondering if they need to decide between “rent or gas or food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all community colleges, Evergreen Valley is required to provide a \u003ca href=\"https://www.evc.edu/basic-needs\">basic needs program\u003c/a> to help provide resources regarding food, housing and transportation for their students, including those on CalFresh. According to the California Policy Lab, around 276,000 students attending a California community college use CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such student on CalFresh is 61-year-old Salimah Shabazz of Chabot College. Shabazz — known to friends and family as Mrs. Mak — recalled walking into her school’s resource center in tears when learning of the delayed November benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suffer from different health problems also. It was in limbo. I didn’t know what I was going to do,” she said. “Thank God for the student resource hub.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the shutdown, the Foundation for California Community Colleges \u003ca href=\"https://give.foundationccc.org/campaign/738630/donate\">launched a fundraising campaign\u003c/a> to assist students during the shutdown and beyond, and “to directly support our students regardless of what happens at the national level,” said Marisela Hernandez, a manager with the foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that their financial aid is not enough to cover all of their living expenses in California,” Hernandez said. “Often our students are having to choose between going to class, or going to work, or being able to provide for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community organizations step up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley student Fusco said she already relies on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/\">Berkeley Food Network\u003c/a>, which operates food pantries and deliveries in the region. And community resources have been a vital lifeline for many CalFresh recipients during an unprecedented moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard#find-food-bank-near-me\">Food banks across the Bay Area\u003c/a> have prepared for the expected surges of people visiting their distribution sites, and local restaurants are providing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">free or discounted meals\u003c/a> for impacted residents, with many focusing on families. And continuing a history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-activists-remember-radical-origins-food-justice-movement\">food justice in schools\u003c/a>, students themselves are collaborating to offer mutual aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: staff members of The Berkeley Student Food Collective, Yesenik Alfaro Puga, Emily Torres-Zepeda, Sadie Muller, Amory Marten and David Cho, at the co-op’s storefront in Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. The student-run grocery aims to provide healthy and low-cost food options to the campus community. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.foodcollective.org/\">Berkeley Student Food Collective\u003c/a> is a non-profit “student-governed grocery co-op” located next to the UC Berkeley campus, led by J. Noven, the organization’s executive director. For Noven, the shutdown has highlighted existing problems, from “widespread food insecurity” to a “hollowing out of benefits for students and young people” — but the CalFresh delays were an additional blow to students already struggling to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already, we’ve seen a significant downturn in utilization of EBT at the storefront,” Noven said — from students with dwindling or zero CalFresh funds to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite Noven’s determination to help students and Berkeley residents at this time, the food collective still has its restrictions. A month into the shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture told retailers — including grocery stores or corner stores — that providing discounts to EBT cardholders would be considered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ebt/retailer/retailer-notice/reminder-snap-equal-treatment\">“SNAP violation.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are one of a network of individual or independent grocery stores that really want to be stepping up to support communities that use SNAP, and our hands are being tied by the USDA,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How \u003cstrong>‘a lifeline’ can still be out of reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jensen, the Santa Clara University student, said she got off CalFresh a few months ago. But her experience led her to study food insecurity at her own institution’s basic needs office, learning more about the cost-of-living in one of the most expensive regions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt very alone at this school, in my issues,” Jensen said — but in the course of her research, she said she realized, “‘Wow, there’s a lot of students who are dealing with this.’”[aside postID=news_12063395 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/calfresh-students.jpg']In \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/media/environmental-justice-initiative/2023-24-SCU-Food-Security-and-Basic-Needs-Report.pdf\">a survey of around 830 SCU students\u003c/a>, over a quarter reported “having very low or low food security in 2023.” “It should never be something that anyone’s ashamed of,” Jensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">the UCLA study\u003c/a>, student subpopulations that were most likely to report being food insecure were those who have been in the foster care system, first-generation students and disabled students — disparities that the study’s lead author said showed “food security is also a matter of educational equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her own studies, Jensen also delved deeper into systemic detriments of going without food as a student: \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9370637/\">the lower GPAs\u003c/a>, the higher rates of anxiety and depression, the disproportionate impacts on first-generation students and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many students, even just getting onto CalFresh is an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the UCLA study, over a quarter of food-insecure students who have heard of CalFresh but never used it said they did not know how to apply. Half of them said they hadn’t applied because \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">they didn’t think they’d qualify\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in fact, many more students are eligible for CalFresh than are actually using it. According to Hogg’s UC Berkeley research, 1 in 3 UC undergrads qualify for SNAP benefits, as do 1 in 5 community college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, according to 2019 data, “over a quarter of California high school students participated in CalFresh at some point during high school,” said Hogg. But those numbers then drop off after high school graduation — and a major factor is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calfreshoutreach/res/toolkit/quickreference/regulationquickreference_e_students.pdf\">additional eligibility criteria\u003c/a> college students need to meet to stay on CalFresh, Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians pass The Berkeley Student Food Collective on Bancroft Way in Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. The co-op, known for its focus on affordability and sustainability, displays local produce outside its storefront. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students need to be either a parent, working for 20 hours a week or participating in work-study to keep receiving food benefits when they get to college. Some students may also lose eligibility for CalFresh if they live with their parents. Overall, “there’s a list of things that students have to do — above and beyond the general population — to be eligible for CalFresh,” Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen said that thinking about the back-and-forth court battles still happening over SNAP, and what she called “food benefits being used as a political pawn,” she gets mad. Institutions — the government and colleges alike — need to provide for their students, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The UN has quite literally delegated \u003ca href=\"https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/\">food security as a human right\u003c/a>,” Jensen said. “And it’s a right that Americans aren’t getting … It’s genuinely a lifeline in an extremely unaffordable country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I need to use my voice to speak up for those who can’t, because I was able to not rely on SNAP anymore,” she added. “And that’s something I did hold a lot of pride in myself for — but I also held a lot of pride when I did use SNAP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it came to finally being able to afford certain kinds of fresh food, CalFresh “really just unlocked a whole new level of eating for me,” Jensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At SCU, a private college, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/santa-clara-university\">71% of students come from families in the top 20% of earners. \u003c/a>Jensen, a first-generation college student, said she told virtually no one that she was receiving benefits — including her friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students on campus at Santa Clara University on Nov. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“SNAP or EBT is almost like a bad word,” she said. “It’s almost an embarrassing part of shame that you’re holding within you … Like, oh, ‘I’m trying to catch up to everyone else, but I can barely afford to live, let alone to eat.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jensen is no longer using CalFresh, she was one of over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=55416\">41 million people\u003c/a> nationwide who depend on SNAP to put food on the table — a group that’s seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">their November benefits delayed\u003c/a> due to what is now the longest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a> in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">CalFresh recipients in the state have finally begun receiving this month’s benefits \u003c/a>after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">a federal judge’s ruling, and Congress discusses a deal to end the shutdown, President Donald Trump’s administration is now fighting the states in the courts to\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063660/california-moves-to-protect-calfresh-payments-from-federal-confusion-and-chaos\"> “undo” this month’s SNAP money\u003c/a> — leaving recipients in even more confusion and anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown delays have sharply highlighted just how many people in California — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">around 5.5 million people\u003c/a> — rely on SNAP. But among the program’s seniors, families, single parents and veterans, college students like Jensen are a group that’s often overlooked when it comes to depending on CalFresh to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hunger on campus\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over 400,000 public university and college students participate in CalFresh statewide — a number that surprises people, according to Jennifer Hogg, a senior research manager at the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people don’t think of college students when they think of who is impacted by the SNAP shut off,” Hogg said. “But today’s college student is largely lower-income — potentially first-generation — and doesn’t have a ton of financial support from home.” And as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/politics/fact-check-beef-grocery-prices-trump-vis\">groceries have become more and more expensive\u003c/a>, some colleges are also \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6520682/\">located in food deserts\u003c/a>, making it even harder to find fresh, substantial meals.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Jensen noted it’s common for college students to darkly joke among themselves about how little they’ve eaten that day, as they juggle studies and extracurriculars. But that could normalize the hunger, she said. According to \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">a UCLA study\u003c/a> from earlier this year, half of the California college students surveyed said they experienced food insecurity, and 28% of respondents said they’d skipped a meal in the past because they couldn’t afford to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re having to deal with those things, it’s impossible to think about the larger academic responsibilities that you have,” Jensen said. “I couldn’t focus on anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/news/analysis-shows-govt-shutdown-could-lead-to-at-least-414000-college-students-not-receiving-their-nov-calfresh-benefits/\">California Policy Lab’s data\u003c/a> includes students from the 2022 to 2023 academic school year at California Community Colleges, the University of California and the California State University systems. The data does not include students like Jensen, who attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the data, over 58,000 CalFresh recipients are within the University of California system, including Berkeley transfer student LisaMarie Fusco, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062685/eating-for-survival-with-november-snap-delays-how-will-bay-area-families-cope\">told KQED she was “broken-hearted” by the SNAP delays\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m devastated,” she said. “People are really tired. We’re done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to juggling the demands of her academic studies with reduced access to school, “I’ll have to bite the bullet and maybe just continue writing and not think about food,” Fusco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The November delays in SNAP payments due to the government shutdown are keeping around $56 million from the hundreds of thousands of students on CalFresh this month, according to the California Policy Lab’s estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a huge amount of money that we’re talking about — that families and individuals across our state aren’t getting this month, and that isn’t going to support our economy,” Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The view from community colleges\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the government shutdown stretched into October, some college administrators and experts began warning about a possible delay in benefits — and planning for the consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools like Chabot College were immediately “trying to brainstorm how to respond …. even before students were receiving letters from the county about their benefits being impacted,” explained Muna Taqi-Eddin, the college’s CalFresh Outreach Specialist.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>College campuses quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-Steps-Up-to-Support-Students-Amid-CalFresh-Delays.aspx\">deployed resources\u003c/a> for students, including expanding existing food pantries on campus and distributing grocery gift cards and fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some colleges have also made emergency grants available to affected students. Evergreen Valley College in San Jose secured $100,000 worth of emergency funding for 250 students, according to a college spokesperson. It’s money that the college hopes could help alleviate some pressures facing students, said Sean Dickerson, Evergreen Valley College’s Interim Director of Student Development, Engagement, & Inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his role, Dickerson has encountered students who’ve told him they’ve been unable to focus and engage fully in their studies as they miss their November payments, ahead of their upcoming midterm exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the increase of stress and anxiety,” he said — and students are wondering if they need to decide between “rent or gas or food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all community colleges, Evergreen Valley is required to provide a \u003ca href=\"https://www.evc.edu/basic-needs\">basic needs program\u003c/a> to help provide resources regarding food, housing and transportation for their students, including those on CalFresh. According to the California Policy Lab, around 276,000 students attending a California community college use CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such student on CalFresh is 61-year-old Salimah Shabazz of Chabot College. Shabazz — known to friends and family as Mrs. Mak — recalled walking into her school’s resource center in tears when learning of the delayed November benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suffer from different health problems also. It was in limbo. I didn’t know what I was going to do,” she said. “Thank God for the student resource hub.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the shutdown, the Foundation for California Community Colleges \u003ca href=\"https://give.foundationccc.org/campaign/738630/donate\">launched a fundraising campaign\u003c/a> to assist students during the shutdown and beyond, and “to directly support our students regardless of what happens at the national level,” said Marisela Hernandez, a manager with the foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that their financial aid is not enough to cover all of their living expenses in California,” Hernandez said. “Often our students are having to choose between going to class, or going to work, or being able to provide for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community organizations step up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley student Fusco said she already relies on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/\">Berkeley Food Network\u003c/a>, which operates food pantries and deliveries in the region. And community resources have been a vital lifeline for many CalFresh recipients during an unprecedented moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard#find-food-bank-near-me\">Food banks across the Bay Area\u003c/a> have prepared for the expected surges of people visiting their distribution sites, and local restaurants are providing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">free or discounted meals\u003c/a> for impacted residents, with many focusing on families. And continuing a history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-activists-remember-radical-origins-food-justice-movement\">food justice in schools\u003c/a>, students themselves are collaborating to offer mutual aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: staff members of The Berkeley Student Food Collective, Yesenik Alfaro Puga, Emily Torres-Zepeda, Sadie Muller, Amory Marten and David Cho, at the co-op’s storefront in Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. The student-run grocery aims to provide healthy and low-cost food options to the campus community. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.foodcollective.org/\">Berkeley Student Food Collective\u003c/a> is a non-profit “student-governed grocery co-op” located next to the UC Berkeley campus, led by J. Noven, the organization’s executive director. For Noven, the shutdown has highlighted existing problems, from “widespread food insecurity” to a “hollowing out of benefits for students and young people” — but the CalFresh delays were an additional blow to students already struggling to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already, we’ve seen a significant downturn in utilization of EBT at the storefront,” Noven said — from students with dwindling or zero CalFresh funds to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite Noven’s determination to help students and Berkeley residents at this time, the food collective still has its restrictions. A month into the shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture told retailers — including grocery stores or corner stores — that providing discounts to EBT cardholders would be considered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ebt/retailer/retailer-notice/reminder-snap-equal-treatment\">“SNAP violation.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are one of a network of individual or independent grocery stores that really want to be stepping up to support communities that use SNAP, and our hands are being tied by the USDA,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How \u003cstrong>‘a lifeline’ can still be out of reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jensen, the Santa Clara University student, said she got off CalFresh a few months ago. But her experience led her to study food insecurity at her own institution’s basic needs office, learning more about the cost-of-living in one of the most expensive regions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt very alone at this school, in my issues,” Jensen said — but in the course of her research, she said she realized, “‘Wow, there’s a lot of students who are dealing with this.’”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/media/environmental-justice-initiative/2023-24-SCU-Food-Security-and-Basic-Needs-Report.pdf\">a survey of around 830 SCU students\u003c/a>, over a quarter reported “having very low or low food security in 2023.” “It should never be something that anyone’s ashamed of,” Jensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">the UCLA study\u003c/a>, student subpopulations that were most likely to report being food insecure were those who have been in the foster care system, first-generation students and disabled students — disparities that the study’s lead author said showed “food security is also a matter of educational equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her own studies, Jensen also delved deeper into systemic detriments of going without food as a student: \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9370637/\">the lower GPAs\u003c/a>, the higher rates of anxiety and depression, the disproportionate impacts on first-generation students and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many students, even just getting onto CalFresh is an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the UCLA study, over a quarter of food-insecure students who have heard of CalFresh but never used it said they did not know how to apply. Half of them said they hadn’t applied because \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/blog/calfresh-college-students-food-insecurity\">they didn’t think they’d qualify\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in fact, many more students are eligible for CalFresh than are actually using it. According to Hogg’s UC Berkeley research, 1 in 3 UC undergrads qualify for SNAP benefits, as do 1 in 5 community college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, according to 2019 data, “over a quarter of California high school students participated in CalFresh at some point during high school,” said Hogg. But those numbers then drop off after high school graduation — and a major factor is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calfreshoutreach/res/toolkit/quickreference/regulationquickreference_e_students.pdf\">additional eligibility criteria\u003c/a> college students need to meet to stay on CalFresh, Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_College_students_CalFresh_GH-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians pass The Berkeley Student Food Collective on Bancroft Way in Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. The co-op, known for its focus on affordability and sustainability, displays local produce outside its storefront. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students need to be either a parent, working for 20 hours a week or participating in work-study to keep receiving food benefits when they get to college. Some students may also lose eligibility for CalFresh if they live with their parents. Overall, “there’s a list of things that students have to do — above and beyond the general population — to be eligible for CalFresh,” Hogg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen said that thinking about the back-and-forth court battles still happening over SNAP, and what she called “food benefits being used as a political pawn,” she gets mad. Institutions — the government and colleges alike — need to provide for their students, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The UN has quite literally delegated \u003ca href=\"https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/\">food security as a human right\u003c/a>,” Jensen said. “And it’s a right that Americans aren’t getting … It’s genuinely a lifeline in an extremely unaffordable country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I need to use my voice to speak up for those who can’t, because I was able to not rely on SNAP anymore,” she added. “And that’s something I did hold a lot of pride in myself for — but I also held a lot of pride when I did use SNAP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mere hours after his Jan. 20 inauguration, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> issued an executive order stating that the federal government would recognize only two sexes, male and female. As a result, the State Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5300880/trump-passport-policy-trans-gender-intersex-nonbinary\">immediately eliminated the “X” gender\u003c/a> as an option and suspended its previous policy that permitted transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to update gender markers on their passports.\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5300880/trump-passport-policy-trans-gender-intersex-nonbinary\"> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a back-and-forth in the federal courts following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69623342/orr-v-trump-president-of-the-united-states/\">lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/695759/new-high-say-supreme-court-too-conservative.aspx\">conservative-leaning\u003c/a> Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration \u003cem>can \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-nonbinary-passport-sex-marker-5040c6412e06a072889af30cfae97462\">enforce this policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the latest update is not the end of the road for trans people and gender markers, San Francisco lawyer Alexis Levy said, since “this decision doesn’t dispose of the lawsuit in general.”“That will take several more months at least,” Levy said. “This was\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/rule_23\"> an emergency stay\u003c/a>, which is a very specific subset that’s become a very frequent feature in this administration, and the Supreme Court during this administration.”[aside postID=news_12067497 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/PassportGetty.jpg']\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/update-gender-marker-ID-documents\">California still allows people to change their gender marker\u003c/a> or use “X” on state-issued documents like their birth certificate or their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without\">driver’s license\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy, who\u003ca href=\"https://www.identityaffirmation.org/about\"> specializes in name and gender marker changes\u003c/a> through their nonprofit\u003ca href=\"https://www.identityaffirmation.org/\"> Identity Affirmation Workshop\u003c/a>, said they’ve seen clientele increase “pretty significantly” since the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People saw the writing on the wall,” said Levy, who has been hosting free gender marker and name change clinics with other LGBTQ+ organizations, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DFGt_wDyAJ3/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">the Oakland LGBTQ Center\u003c/a>. “The whole process can be really daunting,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what does changing your name or gender marker on official government documents now entail? KQED spoke to Levy about what trans, intersex and nonbinary people can expect during the lengthy process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please bear in mind that this is not legal advice, and it’s always a good idea to talk to an expert about your individual situation before taking concrete action — especially because current events may have superseded some information online. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump straight to: Organizations and resources offering advice about documentation changes for trans folks.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#updating-passport-sex-field\">What should I know about updating my gender marker on a U.S. passport right now, and what could the risks be?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">How long does it take to update your name or gender marker on your documentation?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">What are the costs associated with officially changing your name or gender marker?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029447\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Alexis Levy poses for a portrait outside the Civic Center Courthouse in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"updating-passport-sex-field\">\u003c/a>What’s the current situation for trans people’s U.S. passports?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in June, the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts \u003ca href=\"https://www.gladlaw.org/issues/identity-document-updates-for-transgender-people/#:~:text=What%20did%20the%20court%20order,with%20your%20gender%20identity%20if:\">ruled\u003c/a> that the State Department “must allow people with a gender identity different from their sex assigned at birth to self-select the sex designation on their passport,” leaving a brief window of time in which trans Americans could update or renew their documents accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that window is \u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/\">closed once again\u003c/a>. Following \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-nonbinary-passport-sex-marker-5040c6412e06a072889af30cfae97462\">the Supreme Court’s decision on Nov. 6\u003c/a>, all new, renewed and replacement passports will now use the gender marker assigned at birth — and the ‘X’ gender option is no longer available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s still another decision to come from the First Circuit Court of Appeals left, which could lead to another brief window in which trans people can once again adjust their gender markers, this timeline is “really hard to predict,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My advice remains the same: that it is better to have a passport with the wrong gender marker on it than it is to have no passport at all,” they said.[aside postID=news_12021521 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1158696624-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the confusion and anxiety caused by the frequent policy changes, the situation remains “demoralizing” for many trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming people across the country, Levy said — people who were already reeling from the Trump administration’s January executive order affecting their passports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5300880/trump-passport-policy-trans-gender-intersex-nonbinary\">24-year-old trans man told NPR\u003c/a> in February that after filing paperwork to change his gender marker to male on his passport \u003cem>before\u003c/em> Trump’s inauguration, he received a passport marking him as female. \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> actor Hunter Schafer detailed \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@csbvkjbvjkbkjjvkfsjk/video/7473999740842151214?_t=ZT-8u734MhV6Ew&_r=1\">on TikTok\u003c/a> how her new passport lists her as male, despite having female on her government documents since she was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just sort of scared of the way this stuff slowly gets implemented,” Schafer said in her social post, explaining her concerns about possibly being forced to out herself in front of a border patrol agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are never going to stop existing. I’m never going to stop being trans,” Schafer said in her February video. “A letter and a passport can’t change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really no purpose for policies like this one, apart from making the people it affects’ lives miserable,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can people who have changed their gender marker or have “X” still use their passports to travel?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department’s site said that a passport with an “X” marker or that “lists a sex other than [your] sex as defined by the White House executive order” \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/passport-help/sex-marker.html\">will “remain valid until its expiration date,”\u003c/a> and that you can still use it to travel in and out of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the anxiety some may have around traveling these passports, Lambda Legal, \u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/\">an organization serving LGBTQ+ people\u003c/a>, said it’s not aware of any confirmed incidents “where individuals have faced problems leaving or reentering the United States using an unexpired passport issued prior to the 2025 policy changes — including those with an X gender marker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have also been no verified reports of passports being confiscated upon reentry,” the \u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/\">group’s website\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, stressed Lambda Legal, travelers should weigh their personal circumstances, “including how you use your passport, your plans for international travel, and your individual safety needs and risk tolerance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Which documents can I change my name and/or gender markers on?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is no one universal application where you can change your name or gender marker for all of your documents and changing one does not prompt another document to change. You have to do it “manually 100% of the time,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said the four major documents people have historically wanted to change to reflect an update to their name or gender identity are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federal:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports.html\">Passport\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/faqs/en/questions/KA-01981.html\">Social Security card and record\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Amending-a-California-Birth-Record.aspx\">Birth certificate\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/updating-information-on-your-driver-license-or-identification-dl-id-card/\">Driver’s license\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without\"> REAL ID\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California, along with several other states, still allows people to change their gender marker or use “X” on state-issued documents like their birth certificate or driver’s license.[aside postID=news_12028454 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177324845-1020x680.jpg']Other documentation or information that a person might update to reflect a new name or correct gender marker could potentially include: green cards, visas, foreign passports, citizenship certificates, health insurance, insurance and information around banking and credit cards. And name changes, especially, don’t have to be confined to government documents, Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere where your name is attached to it is somewhere where eventually you’re going to have to update it,” said Levy, who went through the name change process themself last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These updates could include mail, magazine subscriptions or their identity at a club or nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can I legally have a change of name and/or gender identity recognized?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To update a lot of your major documentation to reflect a new name and/or correct gender marker, you’ll need to go to\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm\"> your local county court\u003c/a> and obtain a court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, you can ask for the court to recognize:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/name-change/name-match-gender-adult\">A change of name “to make it match your gender identity”\u003c/a> or\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult\">A change of gender identity\u003c/a> or\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult\">A change of both name and gender identity\u003c/a> at the same time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Depending on your individual situation, you will have to fill out \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/fill-forms\">at least two — and potentially several more — forms\u003c/a>, which will be filed with your local clerk (and be sure to make a copy of all of them). See \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/fill-forms\">which forms might be required\u003c/a> to change your name and/or gender identity in California.[aside postID=news_12026245 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ap25023755326447-1020x681.jpeg']Some local courts will ask for their own additional forms to file, which\u003ca href=\"https://courts.ca.gov/find-my-court\"> you can check with your court’s clerk\u003c/a>. Levy notes that some counties may ask for more biographical information for background-checking purposes, including height, weight and place of birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you’ve provided the information required by your county, generally, the clerk will then send the forms to a judge, who will then\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/file\"> sign a name change and gender recognition order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This certified signed order helps you change your \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/name-change/name-adult/get-decree\">other official documents, like state IDs\u003c/a>. You will need\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/get-decree\"> multiple copies of the signed order\u003c/a> to change each document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process is also available to\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/out-state-name-gender-change\"> people born or married in California\u003c/a> but who now live out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Are there any documents I can change without a court order? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Levy said you could change your gender marker on California documents — such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Assembly-Bill-(AB)-218.aspx\">birth certificates\u003c/a> and driver’s licenses/IDs — without a court order, although you’ll still be asked for some \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Assembly-Bill-(AB)-218.aspx\">“specific supporting documentation.”\u003c/a> Name change recognition, however, almost always needs a court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people may still consider obtaining the court order regardless of having their gender marker changed, even if it’s possible to do so in California without the order, Levy said. That includes people born in another state or country that \u003cem>does \u003c/em>require a court order to make such a change. Californians may also consider obtaining the court order as a kind of insurance against potential future changes in federal policy regarding self-selection on gender markers, Levy said, since the Constitution mandates that the federal government. As well as other states, \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIV-S1-1/ALDE_00013015/\">must respect a state court order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureaucratic process of updating a birth certificate without a court order can also be intricate and specific, according to Levy. And since any administrative mistakes on the applicant’s part can lead to long delays, they recommend you consult a legal expert if you choose to go this route.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need permission for a physician to change my name or gender marker?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. After a 2018 law, California residents do not need\u003ca href=\"https://eznamechange.com/transgender-name-change-in-california/\"> a physician’s letter\u003c/a> for a name and gender change petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Once I’ve obtained my court order recognizing my name and/or gender identity change, how can I start updating my documents?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your Social Security card\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can change your name on your Social Security card through\u003ca href=\"https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-01981\"> the Social Security Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The card does not list a person’s gender marker, but \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/documents/know-your-rights-social-security\">the agency said\u003c/a> it “maintains information in its computer records on everyone who has a Social Security number, including name, date of birth, and sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles — as well as the State Department, banks, insurance companies, credit card companies and more — often use the Social Security database to cross-reference and confirm people’s identities. Changing a name with the Social Security Administration is almost always a prerequisite before updating other government IDs (except birth certificates) and insurance, Levy said.[aside postID=news_12027050 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1808440413-1020x680.jpg']Lambda Legal, \u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/\">an organization serving LGBTQ+ people\u003c/a>, notes that as of Jan. 31, the Trump administration has directed the Social Security Administration to “stop processing gender marker updates” associated with their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for Trans Equality, a trans advocacy group, has \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/documents/know-your-rights-social-security\">noted\u003c/a> that Social Security benefits are not dependent on sex. However, “when applying for Medicare, Medicaid, or Obamacare health insurance through the marketplace, use the sex that matches Social Security,” the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your driver’s license or RealID\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are state documents, so you can update your name and/or your gender marker \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/updating-information-on-your-driver-license-or-identification-dl-id-card/\">through your local Department of Motor Vehicles\u003c/a>. According to the state, \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/name-change/update-documents\">you should change your \u003cem>name \u003c/em>on your Social Security card\u003c/a> before you request a name update on your driver’s license or RealID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your birth certificate \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can update your name and your gender marker on your birth certificate through the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Amending-a-California-Birth-Record.aspx\"> California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Amending-a-California-Birth-Record.aspx\">Updating your name requires a court order\u003c/a>, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Assembly-Bill-(AB)-218.aspx\">updating your gender marker does not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your passport \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can update your name on your passport through\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-passport/change-correct.html\"> the U.S. Department of State\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>Jump back to: \u003ca href=\"#updating-passport-sex-field\">What should I know about updating my gender marker on a U.S. passport right now, and what could the risks be?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your marriage certificate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you had a public marriage, you can update\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Amending-a-California-Marriage-Record.aspx\"> your name or gender marker on your marriage certificate with the State Registrar\u003c/a>. If you had\u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/county-clerk-recorder/what-difference-between-confidential-and-public-marriage-license\"> a confidential marriage\u003c/a>, you can update your marriage certificate with\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/County-Registrars-and-Recorders.aspx\"> the county recorder’s office\u003c/a> that issued the certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>How long would changing my name or gender marker take?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the state, the decision period in which a judge signs the name change and gender recognition order is \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/file\">six weeks\u003c/a>. But in many cases, this can vary, Levy said, and the process can be delayed even longer if there are mistakes in your paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once the court order is approved, “each of those individual documents takes different periods of time,” Levy said. “So California birth certificates take about four months. … Usually [with] Social Security, you do that, and you get a new card in the mail within two weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>How much money will changing my name and/or gender markers cost?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Name and gender marker changes can be a pricey process, with just some of the costs including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/file\">court petition is $435 to $450\u003c/a>, with\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/ask-fee-waiver\"> some fee waivers available\u003c/a> for people whose household income is below a set amount or who receive public benefits if a judge approves it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Each\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/get-decree\"> copy of a certified order is $40\u003c/a>. (This is free if you qualify for the fee waiver.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reissuing an updated \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/pages/vital-records-fees.aspx#:~:text=*The%20fee%20to%20change/correct,%2429%20per%20copy\">California birth certificate costs $26\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usa.gov/social-security-card#:~:text=Replacing%20a%20Social%20Security%20card,replacement%20online%20or%20in%20person.\">Social Security cards are reissued for free\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An\u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/licensing-fees/\"> updated driver’s license is $36\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Passport renewals are\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/fees.html\"> $130\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need to circulate my name in the local newspaper?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. If you are changing\u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/documents/california-identity-documents\"> your name according to your gender identity\u003c/a>, you do not need to have your name change printed in a newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What if I am worried about my safety?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Court documents are usually public records. If you are in the state witness program or the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/registries/safe-home\"> Safe at Home address confidentiality program\u003c/a>, you can ask to keep your name change confidential by\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm\"> asking your local court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need to be a certain age to update my name or gender marker? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If a person is under 18 and in California, they would need \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/id/NameChangesforMinors/NCTE%20Minor%20Name%20Change%20California.pdf\">parental permission\u003c/a> to change their name and gender marker on their state ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people can also use their preferred names and pronouns in public schools without \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/lgbtq-student-rights-k-12-california-public-schools#:~:text=You%20should%20not%20need%20to,YES.\">having to show any legal documentation\u003c/a>. KQED has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021521/new-year-new-law-know-more-about-your-rights-as-a-trans-student-in-california-schools\"> a guide further explaining the rights of trans students in public K–12 schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029448\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea and Milo Ronquillo sit with attorney Alexis Levy (right) near the Civic Center Courthouse in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Where can trans folks find support and resources around documentation changes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Levy holds regular clinic with their firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.identityaffirmation.org/\">Identity Affirmation Workshop \u003c/a>and said the service is pro bono to anyone living in California or, if they live out of state, born or married in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizations offering advice in this area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/\">Trans Equality\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/helpdesk/\">Lambda Legal’s help desk\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://translifeline.org/resources/id-change-library/\">Trans Lifeline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More about the name and gender marker changing process\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/guide-to-legally-changingyour-name-genderwhile-incarcerated/\"> if you are incarcerated\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nnavarro\">Natalia Navarro\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on March 6 and has been updated to reflect that Alexis Levy’s nonprofit is called Identity Affirmation Workshop.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a back-and-forth in the federal courts following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69623342/orr-v-trump-president-of-the-united-states/\">lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/695759/new-high-say-supreme-court-too-conservative.aspx\">conservative-leaning\u003c/a> Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration \u003cem>can \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-nonbinary-passport-sex-marker-5040c6412e06a072889af30cfae97462\">enforce this policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the latest update is not the end of the road for trans people and gender markers, San Francisco lawyer Alexis Levy said, since “this decision doesn’t dispose of the lawsuit in general.”“That will take several more months at least,” Levy said. “This was\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/rule_23\"> an emergency stay\u003c/a>, which is a very specific subset that’s become a very frequent feature in this administration, and the Supreme Court during this administration.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/update-gender-marker-ID-documents\">California still allows people to change their gender marker\u003c/a> or use “X” on state-issued documents like their birth certificate or their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without\">driver’s license\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy, who\u003ca href=\"https://www.identityaffirmation.org/about\"> specializes in name and gender marker changes\u003c/a> through their nonprofit\u003ca href=\"https://www.identityaffirmation.org/\"> Identity Affirmation Workshop\u003c/a>, said they’ve seen clientele increase “pretty significantly” since the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People saw the writing on the wall,” said Levy, who has been hosting free gender marker and name change clinics with other LGBTQ+ organizations, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DFGt_wDyAJ3/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">the Oakland LGBTQ Center\u003c/a>. “The whole process can be really daunting,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what does changing your name or gender marker on official government documents now entail? KQED spoke to Levy about what trans, intersex and nonbinary people can expect during the lengthy process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please bear in mind that this is not legal advice, and it’s always a good idea to talk to an expert about your individual situation before taking concrete action — especially because current events may have superseded some information online. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump straight to: Organizations and resources offering advice about documentation changes for trans folks.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#updating-passport-sex-field\">What should I know about updating my gender marker on a U.S. passport right now, and what could the risks be?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">How long does it take to update your name or gender marker on your documentation?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">What are the costs associated with officially changing your name or gender marker?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029447\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Alexis Levy poses for a portrait outside the Civic Center Courthouse in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"updating-passport-sex-field\">\u003c/a>What’s the current situation for trans people’s U.S. passports?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in June, the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts \u003ca href=\"https://www.gladlaw.org/issues/identity-document-updates-for-transgender-people/#:~:text=What%20did%20the%20court%20order,with%20your%20gender%20identity%20if:\">ruled\u003c/a> that the State Department “must allow people with a gender identity different from their sex assigned at birth to self-select the sex designation on their passport,” leaving a brief window of time in which trans Americans could update or renew their documents accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that window is \u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/\">closed once again\u003c/a>. Following \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-nonbinary-passport-sex-marker-5040c6412e06a072889af30cfae97462\">the Supreme Court’s decision on Nov. 6\u003c/a>, all new, renewed and replacement passports will now use the gender marker assigned at birth — and the ‘X’ gender option is no longer available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s still another decision to come from the First Circuit Court of Appeals left, which could lead to another brief window in which trans people can once again adjust their gender markers, this timeline is “really hard to predict,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My advice remains the same: that it is better to have a passport with the wrong gender marker on it than it is to have no passport at all,” they said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the confusion and anxiety caused by the frequent policy changes, the situation remains “demoralizing” for many trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming people across the country, Levy said — people who were already reeling from the Trump administration’s January executive order affecting their passports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5300880/trump-passport-policy-trans-gender-intersex-nonbinary\">24-year-old trans man told NPR\u003c/a> in February that after filing paperwork to change his gender marker to male on his passport \u003cem>before\u003c/em> Trump’s inauguration, he received a passport marking him as female. \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> actor Hunter Schafer detailed \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@csbvkjbvjkbkjjvkfsjk/video/7473999740842151214?_t=ZT-8u734MhV6Ew&_r=1\">on TikTok\u003c/a> how her new passport lists her as male, despite having female on her government documents since she was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just sort of scared of the way this stuff slowly gets implemented,” Schafer said in her social post, explaining her concerns about possibly being forced to out herself in front of a border patrol agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are never going to stop existing. I’m never going to stop being trans,” Schafer said in her February video. “A letter and a passport can’t change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really no purpose for policies like this one, apart from making the people it affects’ lives miserable,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can people who have changed their gender marker or have “X” still use their passports to travel?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department’s site said that a passport with an “X” marker or that “lists a sex other than [your] sex as defined by the White House executive order” \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/passport-help/sex-marker.html\">will “remain valid until its expiration date,”\u003c/a> and that you can still use it to travel in and out of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the anxiety some may have around traveling these passports, Lambda Legal, \u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/\">an organization serving LGBTQ+ people\u003c/a>, said it’s not aware of any confirmed incidents “where individuals have faced problems leaving or reentering the United States using an unexpired passport issued prior to the 2025 policy changes — including those with an X gender marker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have also been no verified reports of passports being confiscated upon reentry,” the \u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/\">group’s website\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, stressed Lambda Legal, travelers should weigh their personal circumstances, “including how you use your passport, your plans for international travel, and your individual safety needs and risk tolerance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Which documents can I change my name and/or gender markers on?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is no one universal application where you can change your name or gender marker for all of your documents and changing one does not prompt another document to change. You have to do it “manually 100% of the time,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said the four major documents people have historically wanted to change to reflect an update to their name or gender identity are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federal:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports.html\">Passport\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/faqs/en/questions/KA-01981.html\">Social Security card and record\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Amending-a-California-Birth-Record.aspx\">Birth certificate\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/updating-information-on-your-driver-license-or-identification-dl-id-card/\">Driver’s license\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without\"> REAL ID\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California, along with several other states, still allows people to change their gender marker or use “X” on state-issued documents like their birth certificate or driver’s license.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Other documentation or information that a person might update to reflect a new name or correct gender marker could potentially include: green cards, visas, foreign passports, citizenship certificates, health insurance, insurance and information around banking and credit cards. And name changes, especially, don’t have to be confined to government documents, Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere where your name is attached to it is somewhere where eventually you’re going to have to update it,” said Levy, who went through the name change process themself last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These updates could include mail, magazine subscriptions or their identity at a club or nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can I legally have a change of name and/or gender identity recognized?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To update a lot of your major documentation to reflect a new name and/or correct gender marker, you’ll need to go to\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm\"> your local county court\u003c/a> and obtain a court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, you can ask for the court to recognize:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/name-change/name-match-gender-adult\">A change of name “to make it match your gender identity”\u003c/a> or\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult\">A change of gender identity\u003c/a> or\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult\">A change of both name and gender identity\u003c/a> at the same time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Depending on your individual situation, you will have to fill out \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/fill-forms\">at least two — and potentially several more — forms\u003c/a>, which will be filed with your local clerk (and be sure to make a copy of all of them). See \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/fill-forms\">which forms might be required\u003c/a> to change your name and/or gender identity in California.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some local courts will ask for their own additional forms to file, which\u003ca href=\"https://courts.ca.gov/find-my-court\"> you can check with your court’s clerk\u003c/a>. Levy notes that some counties may ask for more biographical information for background-checking purposes, including height, weight and place of birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you’ve provided the information required by your county, generally, the clerk will then send the forms to a judge, who will then\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/file\"> sign a name change and gender recognition order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This certified signed order helps you change your \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/name-change/name-adult/get-decree\">other official documents, like state IDs\u003c/a>. You will need\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/get-decree\"> multiple copies of the signed order\u003c/a> to change each document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process is also available to\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/out-state-name-gender-change\"> people born or married in California\u003c/a> but who now live out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Are there any documents I can change without a court order? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Levy said you could change your gender marker on California documents — such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Assembly-Bill-(AB)-218.aspx\">birth certificates\u003c/a> and driver’s licenses/IDs — without a court order, although you’ll still be asked for some \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Assembly-Bill-(AB)-218.aspx\">“specific supporting documentation.”\u003c/a> Name change recognition, however, almost always needs a court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people may still consider obtaining the court order regardless of having their gender marker changed, even if it’s possible to do so in California without the order, Levy said. That includes people born in another state or country that \u003cem>does \u003c/em>require a court order to make such a change. Californians may also consider obtaining the court order as a kind of insurance against potential future changes in federal policy regarding self-selection on gender markers, Levy said, since the Constitution mandates that the federal government. As well as other states, \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIV-S1-1/ALDE_00013015/\">must respect a state court order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureaucratic process of updating a birth certificate without a court order can also be intricate and specific, according to Levy. And since any administrative mistakes on the applicant’s part can lead to long delays, they recommend you consult a legal expert if you choose to go this route.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need permission for a physician to change my name or gender marker?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. After a 2018 law, California residents do not need\u003ca href=\"https://eznamechange.com/transgender-name-change-in-california/\"> a physician’s letter\u003c/a> for a name and gender change petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Once I’ve obtained my court order recognizing my name and/or gender identity change, how can I start updating my documents?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your Social Security card\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can change your name on your Social Security card through\u003ca href=\"https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-01981\"> the Social Security Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The card does not list a person’s gender marker, but \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/documents/know-your-rights-social-security\">the agency said\u003c/a> it “maintains information in its computer records on everyone who has a Social Security number, including name, date of birth, and sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles — as well as the State Department, banks, insurance companies, credit card companies and more — often use the Social Security database to cross-reference and confirm people’s identities. Changing a name with the Social Security Administration is almost always a prerequisite before updating other government IDs (except birth certificates) and insurance, Levy said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lambda Legal, \u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/\">an organization serving LGBTQ+ people\u003c/a>, notes that as of Jan. 31, the Trump administration has directed the Social Security Administration to “stop processing gender marker updates” associated with their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for Trans Equality, a trans advocacy group, has \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/documents/know-your-rights-social-security\">noted\u003c/a> that Social Security benefits are not dependent on sex. However, “when applying for Medicare, Medicaid, or Obamacare health insurance through the marketplace, use the sex that matches Social Security,” the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your driver’s license or RealID\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are state documents, so you can update your name and/or your gender marker \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/updating-information-on-your-driver-license-or-identification-dl-id-card/\">through your local Department of Motor Vehicles\u003c/a>. According to the state, \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/name-change/update-documents\">you should change your \u003cem>name \u003c/em>on your Social Security card\u003c/a> before you request a name update on your driver’s license or RealID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your birth certificate \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can update your name and your gender marker on your birth certificate through the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Amending-a-California-Birth-Record.aspx\"> California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Amending-a-California-Birth-Record.aspx\">Updating your name requires a court order\u003c/a>, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Assembly-Bill-(AB)-218.aspx\">updating your gender marker does not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your passport \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can update your name on your passport through\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-passport/change-correct.html\"> the U.S. Department of State\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>Jump back to: \u003ca href=\"#updating-passport-sex-field\">What should I know about updating my gender marker on a U.S. passport right now, and what could the risks be?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating your marriage certificate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you had a public marriage, you can update\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/Amending-a-California-Marriage-Record.aspx\"> your name or gender marker on your marriage certificate with the State Registrar\u003c/a>. If you had\u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/county-clerk-recorder/what-difference-between-confidential-and-public-marriage-license\"> a confidential marriage\u003c/a>, you can update your marriage certificate with\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/Pages/County-Registrars-and-Recorders.aspx\"> the county recorder’s office\u003c/a> that issued the certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>How long would changing my name or gender marker take?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the state, the decision period in which a judge signs the name change and gender recognition order is \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/file\">six weeks\u003c/a>. But in many cases, this can vary, Levy said, and the process can be delayed even longer if there are mistakes in your paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once the court order is approved, “each of those individual documents takes different periods of time,” Levy said. “So California birth certificates take about four months. … Usually [with] Social Security, you do that, and you get a new card in the mail within two weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>How much money will changing my name and/or gender markers cost?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Name and gender marker changes can be a pricey process, with just some of the costs including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/file\">court petition is $435 to $450\u003c/a>, with\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/ask-fee-waiver\"> some fee waivers available\u003c/a> for people whose household income is below a set amount or who receive public benefits if a judge approves it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Each\u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/gender-recognition/gender-name-adult/get-decree\"> copy of a certified order is $40\u003c/a>. (This is free if you qualify for the fee waiver.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reissuing an updated \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/pages/vital-records-fees.aspx#:~:text=*The%20fee%20to%20change/correct,%2429%20per%20copy\">California birth certificate costs $26\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usa.gov/social-security-card#:~:text=Replacing%20a%20Social%20Security%20card,replacement%20online%20or%20in%20person.\">Social Security cards are reissued for free\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An\u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/licensing-fees/\"> updated driver’s license is $36\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Passport renewals are\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/fees.html\"> $130\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need to circulate my name in the local newspaper?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. If you are changing\u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/documents/california-identity-documents\"> your name according to your gender identity\u003c/a>, you do not need to have your name change printed in a newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What if I am worried about my safety?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Court documents are usually public records. If you are in the state witness program or the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/registries/safe-home\"> Safe at Home address confidentiality program\u003c/a>, you can ask to keep your name change confidential by\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm\"> asking your local court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need to be a certain age to update my name or gender marker? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If a person is under 18 and in California, they would need \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/id/NameChangesforMinors/NCTE%20Minor%20Name%20Change%20California.pdf\">parental permission\u003c/a> to change their name and gender marker on their state ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people can also use their preferred names and pronouns in public schools without \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/lgbtq-student-rights-k-12-california-public-schools#:~:text=You%20should%20not%20need%20to,YES.\">having to show any legal documentation\u003c/a>. KQED has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021521/new-year-new-law-know-more-about-your-rights-as-a-trans-student-in-california-schools\"> a guide further explaining the rights of trans students in public K–12 schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029448\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea and Milo Ronquillo sit with attorney Alexis Levy (right) near the Civic Center Courthouse in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Where can trans folks find support and resources around documentation changes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Levy holds regular clinic with their firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.identityaffirmation.org/\">Identity Affirmation Workshop \u003c/a>and said the service is pro bono to anyone living in California or, if they live out of state, born or married in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizations offering advice in this area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/\">Trans Equality\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lambdalegal.org/helpdesk/\">Lambda Legal’s help desk\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://translifeline.org/resources/id-change-library/\">Trans Lifeline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More about the name and gender marker changing process\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/guide-to-legally-changingyour-name-genderwhile-incarcerated/\"> if you are incarcerated\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nnavarro\">Natalia Navarro\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on March 6 and has been updated to reflect that Alexis Levy’s nonprofit is called Identity Affirmation Workshop.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday morning announced moves to protect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062743/shutdown-san-francisco-sf-cal-fresh-snap-november-grocery-card-ebt-meals-prepaid-debit-contra-costa\">food benefits\u003c/a> that California has paid out after the U.S. Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-november-benefit-issuance11-8\">called on states\u003c/a> over the weekend to halt and unwind payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing for a temporary restraining order against the federal government, joined by \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/continuing-fight-full-november-snap-benefits-attorney-general-bonta-co-leads\">23 attorneys general\u003c/a> and three governors, comes as the USDA told states to “immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025” during the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whiplash the president and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins have given Americans in recent weeks, the steps they’ve taken to prevent vulnerable families from putting food on the table, are unnecessary, unconscionable and unlawful,” Bonta said. “We refuse to stand by and allow it to continue without a fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">started in early October\u003c/a>, has led to delayed payments for people on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and has, according to Bonta, sparked “confusion and chaos” that was “concocted by the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=55416\">41 million people\u003c/a> depend on SNAP, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/#:~:text=Earlier%20today%2C%20a%20court%20ordered,access%20the%20food%20they%20need.\">around 5.5 million\u003c/a> on California’s version, known as CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food benefits have been at the center of the clashes between courts, states and the administration. Last week, a federal judge ordered Trump’s administration to make a payment that would \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-orders-trump-administration-fully-fund-snap-benefits/story?id=127273708\">fully fund\u003c/a> the month of November. The administration has already ignored a previous order to resume some payments and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/snap-food-stamps-shutdown-trump.html\">appealing this most recent decision\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11939767 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1322106041-scaled-e1762809304939.jpg\" alt=\"two hands hold a plastic card that reads 'golden state advantage'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Berkeley resident holds his Golden State Advantage Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court’s decision prompted states, including California, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">reinstate benefits \u003c/a>on people’s EBT cards. According to Bonta, “the vast majority” of Californians on CalFresh “have received full funding” — payments that the USDA is now attempting to claw back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-november-benefit-issuance11-8\">the USDA on Saturday\u003c/a>, “failure to comply with this memorandum may result in USDA taking various actions, including cancellation of the Federal share of State administrative costs and holding States liable for any overissuances that result from the noncompliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts is pausing this request, with \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/continuing-fight-full-november-snap-benefits-attorney-general-bonta-co-leads\">a hearing on the matter set for later Monday\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12062743 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-03-BL-KQED.jpg']“If any of that back and forth left you with whiplash, you are not alone,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he later emphasized, “I want every SNAP beneficiary to know we are fighting for you tooth and nail to make sure that you can be fed. And that there will be no revocation or undoing of the benefits that you have loaded onto your cards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An end to the federal government shutdown is in sight. Eight Democratic senators \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5604135/senate-shutdown-breakthrough-snap-legal-battle-cop30-climate-summit-starts\">broke rank to join Republicans\u003c/a> on Sunday in making a deal to reopen the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown in October was triggered primarily by Democrats trying to secure extended subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which supports \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-takes-aim-obamacare-historic-federal-shutdown-hits-40th-day-2025-11-09/\">lower-income Americans’ access to health care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current deal does not guarantee the extended subsidies but is based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-5603659/government-shutdown-senate-agreement\">an informal agreement\u003c/a> that Republicans will vote to extend them in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They got a promise that they would bring up a bill. Well, what’s that? They’re gonna vote for it? Is he gonna sign it? What’s the promise? What’s a promise? Them is fighting words,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Protests are expected as Turning Point USA, the conservative student group founded by Charlie Kirk, makes its final college tour stop at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> on Monday evening, two months after the controversial founder was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056113/charlie-kirks-assassination-and-the-rise-of-political-violence\">shot and killed\u003c/a> at a Utah university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk was originally set to headline the sold-out appearance as part of the American Comeback Tour, a series of college campus visits across the country that were meant to mark a triumphant year for the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Republicans’ sweeping 2024 congressional wins to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the theme was “definitely very resonant of the current climate on the national level,” said John Paul Leon, the president of UC Berkeley’s TPUSA chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055641/after-kirks-death-trump-targets-critics-in-expanding-free-speech-fight\">Kirk was killed\u003c/a> during the opening leg of his tour in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, though, the organization has rebranded the events to memorialize him, calling the dozen or so stops that resumed two weeks after his death “This is the Turning Point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “a sort of notion that everyone’s now coming together to play their part and try to fill in the gap that was the giant that Charlie Kirk left,” Leon told KQED. Appearances at the University of Mississippi and Auburn University have featured his wife, Erika, Vice President JD Vance, Eric and Lara Trump, among other high-profile conservative figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300 people are expected to attend Monday’s event at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, which will feature comedian and actor Rob Schneider and author and “Christian apologist” Frank Turek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063635\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UCBerkeleyZellerbachHallGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UCBerkeleyZellerbachHallGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UCBerkeleyZellerbachHallGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UCBerkeleyZellerbachHallGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California, on Oct. 9, 2018. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also likely to draw protesters, as previous TPUSA appearances at University of California campuses have. In 2019, conservative activist Hayden Williams and anti-TPUSA protesters got into a fight on Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza, where he’d been invited to recruit students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At nearby UC Davis, protesters and counter-protesters, some wearing Proud Boys apparel, clashed with pepper spray and knocked over security barricades ahead of a planned speaker event in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 12:30 a.m., three people were arrested while trying to hang a cardboard bug and post anti-TPUSA fliers on Sather Gate in protest, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/3-arrested-at-uc-berkeley-while-installing-large-bug-ahead-of-tpusa-event/article_c65ad4c0-2c69-4d6f-b630-ba111573fd5a.html\">the \u003cem>Daily Californian\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Kirk’s shooting, UC President James Milliken sent a letter \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/uc-operations/systemwide-community-safety/_files/letter-from-president-milliken-chancellors-re-high-visibility-event-guidance.pdf\">advising campuses\u003c/a> to review procedures for events “where speakers or performers and the crowds they draw require extra security attention.” The letter urged schools to use indoor venues and add longer and more thorough “door opening” protocols such as security sweeps, bag checks and ticket scanning.[aside postID=news_12055641 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00438_TV-KQED.jpg']Leon said Berkeley’s TPUSA club is taking additional security measures to ensure safety. Attendees will need a photo ID and won’t be allowed to bring bags or water bottles into the venue. Noisemakers, signs and banners are also prohibited, and other items could be deemed prohibited at the door, according to the event’s description online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the school would not share its security planning ahead of Monday’s tour stop, but he said it will follow campus policies for major events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Kirk’s killing, Leon said TPUSA has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/after-charlie-kirks-assassination-young-conservatives-work-to-carry-on-his-message-2\">significant growth\u003c/a>, even at the notoriously progressive campus in Berkeley. Last year’s weekly meetings averaged fewer than 30 students, he said, but their smallest crowd this fall has been about 60.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a national movement,” Leon said, adding that many Berkeley students who were previously afraid to join “have this deep, deep sense that they need to do something about what’s going on in the world,” blaming the left for a rise in political violence and polarizing rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Kirk, who founded TPUSA at 18, advocated for free speech, limited government and values that “maintain the traditions and cultures of the West, not destroy them, not hate the West.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, however, have long considered Kirk’s positions and debate style to be divisive if not outright bigoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2234173687-scaled-e1762806816541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Kirk throws hats to the crowd after arriving at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah. Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was speaking at his “American Comeback Tour” when he was shot in the neck and killed. \u003ccite>(Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He called Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former appeals court judge for the District of Columbia and member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1938631309930496221?lang=en\">diversity hire\u003c/a>” and the Rev. 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"content": "\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/south-bay\">South Bay\u003c/a> transit officials work to bring the long-awaited BART extension through downtown San José to life, they’re also scrambling to form a “Plan B” for how to keep the project moving if President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> derails a massive chunk of pledged federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the extension still faces many hurdles and financial uncertainties, it’s currently estimated to cost about $12.7 billion and open in 2037. Under President Joe Biden, the Federal Transit Administration last year promised $5.1 billion to support it, and local officials had secured another roughly $7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, which is building the six-mile, four-station extension for BART, at the time celebrated the commitment from Washington and said it would be critical to making the project a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during Trump’s second term, local leaders have grown increasingly concerned about the potential for the federal funding to be cut off or delayed, and have pressed top project officials to put together a backup plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve asked it every month recently, and I’ll continue to ask, what the status of a plan B is,” San José Mayor Matt Mahan, who chairs a VTA subcommittee intended to more closely oversee the project, said at an October meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in uncharted waters in Washington. If it becomes clear that the [federal funding] may not be in the works for us for many years, what’s our progress on having a more … radical Plan B so that we continue to have a project?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063142\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 938px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12063142 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/VTA_Graphic-Board_Aerial-Alignment-Map_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"938\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/VTA_Graphic-Board_Aerial-Alignment-Map_0.jpg 938w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/VTA_Graphic-Board_Aerial-Alignment-Map_0-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The four-station South Bay BART extension is expected to extend the system through San José and up to Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Valley Transportation Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Responses from top project officials at VTA have so far left a lot to the imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Maguire, the chief megaprojects delivery officer leading the effort, said in October that after hearing from board members about the concerns, he and his team are working on what the agency calls an “adaptive plan” and expect to deliver it to the board next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The adaptive plan will address the specific risk of not knowing when the federal share will be available. We will explore what options best address this risk and report back early next year,” Maguire said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an interview with KQED in early October, Maguire said it is “hard to see” what the specifics of a Plan B might look like, noting that the primary focus for the agency has been figuring out the logistics of building the 53-foot-diameter tunnel the extension will run through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, earlier this year, began its first heavy construction, with crews building a “launch structure” — essentially a massive, reinforced hole in the ground where a future $76 million tunnel-boring machine can be dropped into the earth to begin digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062941 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction crews work at the West Portal site as part of the project to bring BART through downtown San José on Nov. 4, 2025 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even with the $5.1 billion commitment from the federal government, combined with county taxes and state funds totaling nearly $7 billion, the six-mile, four-station extension is still over budget by roughly $700 million to $1 billion, officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA staff have been working for the last year to slash costs to bring the project in line with the $12.1 billion in what they hope will be the available pot of money, through trims such as axing a maintenance yard and parking garages and simplifying station designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some board members have raised the potential of harsher cuts — especially if federal funding doesn’t materialize soon — including cutting some stations out of the extension altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA must prove that it can build the project within a timeline and cost that Federal Transit Administration overseers approve in order to formally apply for the funding, something Maguire said the agency plans on doing in late 2026 or early 2027.[aside postID=news_12053738 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg']But if Trump or his Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy were to unilaterally pull back the funding commitment before then, it could deal another blow to a project that has already faced significant challenges, including yearslong delays, harsh internal audits and billions of dollars in cost increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the level of concern about Trump’s potential influence is mixed among officials and experts, he has already intruded on other big transit projects, banking on significant federal support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s administration earlier this year clawed back $4 billion from California’s in-progress high-speed rail project, denigrating the long-delayed infrastructure work in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in mid-October, remarks to reporters, Trump said a $16 billion rail project in New York and New Jersey, known as the Gateway project, was “terminated,” in part, analysts said, to politically punish Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has championed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since those initial comments, mixed signals from the administration about its intentions for the Gateway have only sown more \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/2025/10/27/another-rail-headache-for-new-york-new-jersey-courtesy-of-trump/\">concern and consternation, and fueled anxiety in the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s dire,” Santa Clara City Councilmember Suds Jain, a member of the VTA board and oversight subcommittee, told KQED about the president’s potential to complicate the South Bay project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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already struggling with a budget deficit, to help backfill the funding, or to simply “outlast” Trump, by using existing local and state funds to build portions of the project until the president is out of office, and then apply for the federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stacey Hendler Ross, a VTA spokesperson, told KQED the agency believes the project has strong support, based on reports from the agency’s lobbyists in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a matter of if [the project] will receive federal funding, but when,” Hendler Ross said in an email.[aside postID=news_12059533 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg']The Federal Transit Administration, in an emailed statement, said its staff is working with VTA to meet the requirements for the federal funding. “This involves multiple steps completed over several years,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Wasserman, a research program manager at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, agreed he doesn’t think projects like VTA’s BART extension would be cut off entirely by the federal government. But there could still be trouble caused by any meddling with the funding, he said, and political leadership could play a big role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they’ll ultimately be totally canceled for lack of federal funding, but it certainly will engender delays, which add cost,” Wasserman said. “I think if the Republican administration, an administration hostile to California, is still in power at the time they apply for their funds, it could be a huge issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the uncertainty comes while questions about the feasibility of the project linger. The Trump administration aside, some VTA board members and other critics have raised concerns about the potential for more delays and even higher costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to turn into California’s version of the Boston Big Dig, where you start digging, you run out of money, and you’re going to have major delays, major cost increases,” Barney Smits, a retired engineer who worked for BART for 25 years, said at a public meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA decided in June to ditch its primary contractor on the project, a joint venture called Kiewit Shea Traylor, because of a dispute over the cost of tunneling and trackwork. That decision could add 18 months to the timeline before tunneling begins, which is currently pegged for 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers and machinery are seen at VTA’s West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other transit agency experts brought in to review VTA’s progress suggested the agency consider keeping the original contractor or “major components of that team” to take on a new tunneling contract because of their expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if the agency plans to reconsider its contracting decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jain, in an October meeting, said the project has been marred by “rookie mistakes” and mismanagement, and he has “little confidence” it can be completed for $12.7 billion, let alone $12.1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Hill Mayor Mark Turner, a VTA board member, asked Maguire during a joint BART and VTA meeting in October about the prospect of added costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have years to go on this project. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during Trump’s second term, local leaders have grown increasingly concerned about the potential for the federal funding to be cut off or delayed, and have pressed top project officials to put together a backup plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve asked it every month recently, and I’ll continue to ask, what the status of a plan B is,” San José Mayor Matt Mahan, who chairs a VTA subcommittee intended to more closely oversee the project, said at an October meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in uncharted waters in Washington. If it becomes clear that the [federal funding] may not be in the works for us for many years, what’s our progress on having a more … radical Plan B so that we continue to have a project?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063142\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 938px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12063142 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/VTA_Graphic-Board_Aerial-Alignment-Map_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"938\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/VTA_Graphic-Board_Aerial-Alignment-Map_0.jpg 938w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/VTA_Graphic-Board_Aerial-Alignment-Map_0-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The four-station South Bay BART extension is expected to extend the system through San José and up to Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Valley Transportation Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Responses from top project officials at VTA have so far left a lot to the imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Maguire, the chief megaprojects delivery officer leading the effort, said in October that after hearing from board members about the concerns, he and his team are working on what the agency calls an “adaptive plan” and expect to deliver it to the board next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The adaptive plan will address the specific risk of not knowing when the federal share will be available. We will explore what options best address this risk and report back early next year,” Maguire said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an interview with KQED in early October, Maguire said it is “hard to see” what the specifics of a Plan B might look like, noting that the primary focus for the agency has been figuring out the logistics of building the 53-foot-diameter tunnel the extension will run through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, earlier this year, began its first heavy construction, with crews building a “launch structure” — essentially a massive, reinforced hole in the ground where a future $76 million tunnel-boring machine can be dropped into the earth to begin digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062941 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction crews work at the West Portal site as part of the project to bring BART through downtown San José on Nov. 4, 2025 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even with the $5.1 billion commitment from the federal government, combined with county taxes and state funds totaling nearly $7 billion, the six-mile, four-station extension is still over budget by roughly $700 million to $1 billion, officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA staff have been working for the last year to slash costs to bring the project in line with the $12.1 billion in what they hope will be the available pot of money, through trims such as axing a maintenance yard and parking garages and simplifying station designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some board members have raised the potential of harsher cuts — especially if federal funding doesn’t materialize soon — including cutting some stations out of the extension altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA must prove that it can build the project within a timeline and cost that Federal Transit Administration overseers approve in order to formally apply for the funding, something Maguire said the agency plans on doing in late 2026 or early 2027.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Federal Transit Administration, in an emailed statement, said its staff is working with VTA to meet the requirements for the federal funding. “This involves multiple steps completed over several years,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Wasserman, a research program manager at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, agreed he doesn’t think projects like VTA’s BART extension would be cut off entirely by the federal government. But there could still be trouble caused by any meddling with the funding, he said, and political leadership could play a big role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they’ll ultimately be totally canceled for lack of federal funding, but it certainly will engender delays, which add cost,” Wasserman said. “I think if the Republican administration, an administration hostile to California, is still in power at the time they apply for their funds, it could be a huge issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the uncertainty comes while questions about the feasibility of the project linger. The Trump administration aside, some VTA board members and other critics have raised concerns about the potential for more delays and even higher costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to turn into California’s version of the Boston Big Dig, where you start digging, you run out of money, and you’re going to have major delays, major cost increases,” Barney Smits, a retired engineer who worked for BART for 25 years, said at a public meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA decided in June to ditch its primary contractor on the project, a joint venture called Kiewit Shea Traylor, because of a dispute over the cost of tunneling and trackwork. That decision could add 18 months to the timeline before tunneling begins, which is currently pegged for 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers and machinery are seen at VTA’s West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other transit agency experts brought in to review VTA’s progress suggested the agency consider keeping the original contractor or “major components of that team” to take on a new tunneling contract because of their expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if the agency plans to reconsider its contracting decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jain, in an October meeting, said the project has been marred by “rookie mistakes” and mismanagement, and he has “little confidence” it can be completed for $12.7 billion, let alone $12.1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Hill Mayor Mark Turner, a VTA board member, asked Maguire during a joint BART and VTA meeting in October about the prospect of added costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have years to go on this project. Are we possibly looking at a price tag of $15 to $20 billion? Are you saying we can hold this to $12 billion throughout the rest of the project?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The answer to that is yes, but it’s a qualified yes,” Maguire said. “Yes, if we continue to make decisions, get contracts out there, get contractors locked in at prices that are valid today so that we don’t lose any more time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California voters overwhelmingly approved Prop. 50, which will redraw our Congressional maps in an effort to push back against President Donald Trump. In Santa Clara County, voters also appeared to pass a sales tax measure to partially make up for federal funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, we break down how Prop. 50 will change U.S. House districts in the Bay, Santa Clara County’s Measure A, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s retirement announcement after nearly 40 years representing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063016/how-prop-50s-win-reshapes-californias-2026-elections\">How Proposition 50’s Win Reshapes California’s 2026 Elections | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062796/nancy-pelosi-leaves-congress-after-38-years-defining-generations-of-democratic-power\">Nancy Pelosi Retiring After 38 Years Representing San Francisco in Congress | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062794/santa-clara-county-sales-tax-measure-appears-poised-to-pass-amid-federal-cuts\">Santa Clara County Sales Tax Measure Appears Poised to Pass Amid Federal Cuts | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5256405939&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Gavarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:06] Well, good evening, everybody. And let me underscore, it’s been a good evening. For everybody, not just the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:16] On Tuesday night, Californians overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, which gives the state temporary power to redraw our congressional maps. All election season, California Democrats built up Prop 50 as a clapback to President Donald Trump by redrawing the congressional maps to help Democrats retake the House in next year’s midterm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:44] We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump’s recklessness. And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:00:56] Everything that’s going on in the world, this has given me a slight little hope as a chance to fight back, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] We have to stop the Trump machine and we have to get a fair election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:01:09] There’s so much already altered that I feel like we have to make it fair so that there’s a balanced reception of people’s opinions and that seems like the only way to do it right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:23] Today, we’re going to talk with KQED’s politics and government correspondent, Guy Marzorati, about the results of the election and how Prop 50 will change congressional districts in the Bay Area. Plus, Measure A passes in Santa Clara County, and Nancy Pelosi announces her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:50] So Guy, this is not your first rodeo. Of course, you stayed up for many an election night. But we didn’t think this year was gonna be an election year in California, and it was. I’m curious how this compares to past election years that you’ve covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] Yeah, I would say it was a easier election night than a lot of past ones, just because we really got the big result pretty early in the evening. Right after polls closed at 8 o’clock, the Associated Press called that Proposition 50 had passed. And so it wasn’t really a lot of, you know, suspense. I think going into election night, we’re fairly confident Proposition 50 was going to pass. And so now it’s just kind of digging through the results and kind of ripple effects from Prop 50 that will be following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:49] Yeah, and let’s talk about Prop 50 for a little bit. This was really billed as California’s rebuke against Trump. So as you mentioned, it wasn’t really surprising that Prop 50 passed in California. How much did it pass by though? Do we know anything about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] Right now, with what the Associated Press estimates as about three quarters of the votes in, Prop 50 is passing with 64 percent of the vote, which is a huge margin. To see, you know, 64 percent for this, I think, speaks to the success that the Governor Gavin Newsom was able to have in convincing voters to really, yes, make this a partisan fight and a referendum on the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] So Guy, I mean Prop 50’s win wasn’t always a guarantee. There were some early polls that showed California voters were hesitant to redraw the maps. So how did we end up with such a landslide for the Yes side?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Yeah, I think in the end, this election became a lot more about President Donald Trump than about redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Donald Trump does not believe in fair and free elections, period and full stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] Which was Newsom’s goal all along, was to not make this about whether or not voters favored independent citizen-led redistricting, which remains popular. I mean, there was a CNN exit poll of Prop 50 that said 92% of voters favored independent redistricting in California. 60% of those voters still voted for Prop 50. So in the end, I think voters were able to hold two things together. One, that they supported the idea of having citizens draw lines, not favoring either political party, but also using this election to push back against the Trump administration and the efforts by Republicans nationwide to pursue seats through gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:49] Yeah, and Governor Newsom really came out as sort of the face of Prop 50 in many ways and was really the guy pitching this as this fight against Donald Trump. What did he say at the end of election day after seeing these results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] Yeah, what we heard from Newsom on election night was really a call for other states to follow in California’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] We need the state of Virginia. We need state of Maryland. We need our friends in New York, in Illinois, in Colorado. We need to see other states meet this moment head on as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] He made the case for other democratic states to do something similar, to pursue plans, to redraw their congressional maps to help Democrats, because Prop 50 is really part of this nationwide fight over congressional district lines, where we’ve seen Republican states like Texas, like Missouri, like North Carolina, do their own gerrymandering. California has now approved a gerrymander plan favoring Democrats, and there could other states that Newsom called out. As possibly pursuing this down the line as we get closer to the 2026 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:06:03] We can de facto end Donald Trump’s presidency as we know it. The minute Speaker Jeffreys gets sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives, it is all on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] Well, let’s talk about what it actually means now that Prop 50 has passed, because obviously what happens now is that our congressional districts will be redrawn, and you’ve done a bit of reporting before this about the Bay Area cities that are gonna be really impacted by Prop 50, and some of them include Pittsburgh and Antioch, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:47] That’s right. When you look at the 8th congressional district, which includes Pittsburgh, includes Antioch, this is really kind of at the heart of the debate over Proposition 50. This was a district that was drawn by the Citizens Commission based on input that they got from residents. So they heard from residents in Pittsburgh and Antioch, but also in communities like Martinez, Richmond, Vallejo, residents who said, we have a lot in common and we’d like to be included in one congressional district. And these communities, working class, very racially diverse, expressed that to the commission and got included in one Congressional District. What the Prop 50 map does is it takes these heavily democratic voters in Antioch and in Pittsburgh, and it loops them into a district with communities in the Central Valley. And the purpose of that is to help a democratic incumbent in the central valley have an easier path to re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:49] It’s interesting, though, because in the reporting you did ahead of the election, many Democratic voters in some of these cities like Antioch and Pittsburgh knew the impact that this would have on their communities and remember how much work went into building that very diverse district, but still supported Prop 50, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:12] That’s true. I mean, even the county supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston who represents a lot of that area on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, it was a tough decision for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] I’m born and raised here in this community and you know I want to make sure that representation is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:28] She understood the impact of having these communities grouped together in a congressional district. She talked about how where she lives in Pittsburgh, she’s like, this is not like the Central Valley. We have very different needs than constituents in the Central valley. But at the same time, she was like, the fact that if we can get Democrats to flip the House of Representatives, it will mean potentially more funding for the issues that I care about in my community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] These cuts that are coming down from the federal government, starting in January, I mean, it’s going to be a huge, a huge cut. And so I think… You know, if there’s any way that we’re able to get more seats so that we can help the people here on the ground, we gotta do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:48] Well, I wanna move on, Guy, to one local measure that was on the ballot for voters in Santa Clara County where you live, Measure A. This was, of course, the sales tax increase, which also passed. Can you remind us briefly what this does?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:09] Yeah, so Measure A in Santa Clara County, it raises the county sales tax by 5 eighths of a cent for every dollar you spend, and it’s gonna raise about $330 million a year for the county. This was put on the ballot by the County Board of Supervisors after we saw these big federal budget cuts to Medicaid, to SNAP, food benefits, and the county leaders basically went to voters and said, Would you be willing to raise taxes on yourself to help? Backfill some of the money that we’re losing as a result of these federal budget cuts, particularly with healthcare. Santa Clara County runs four public hospitals. These are heavily reliant on Medicaid dollars coming from the federal government. So without those, the county was looking at basically a loss of about a billion dollars a year by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] What was your feeling when you saw the uh… The numbers flash across the screen there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Williams \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] Gratitude and relief gratitude for our community and its continued commitment to a public health care system that works for everyone in our\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:13] James Williams, who’s the county executive in Santa Clara County, was talking with my colleague Joseph Geha on election night and really described the fact that he felt like the passage of Measure A in Santa Clare County gives the county a fighting chance as it kind of grapples with these federal cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Williams \u003c/strong>[00:11:29] We are staring down such a devastating level of federal budget cuts. That daunting task still remains in front of us, but the passage of Measure 8 tonight makes a huge world of difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] Now the question is, this campaign was really run as we’re gonna save the county’s four public hospitals by passing measure A, will the county leaders do that? Will they be able to keep the doors open at all four of the county public hospitals? When Joseph asked James Williams that question, does this guarantee the hospitals remain open? James Williams didn’t 100% say, yes, I guarantee that. 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All election season, California Democrats built up Prop 50 as a clapback to President Donald Trump by redrawing the congressional maps to help Democrats retake the House in next year’s midterm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:44] We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump’s recklessness. 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Plus, Measure A passes in Santa Clara County, and Nancy Pelosi announces her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:50] So Guy, this is not your first rodeo. Of course, you stayed up for many an election night. But we didn’t think this year was gonna be an election year in California, and it was. I’m curious how this compares to past election years that you’ve covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] Yeah, I would say it was a easier election night than a lot of past ones, just because we really got the big result pretty early in the evening. Right after polls closed at 8 o’clock, the Associated Press called that Proposition 50 had passed. And so it wasn’t really a lot of, you know, suspense. I think going into election night, we’re fairly confident Proposition 50 was going to pass. 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To see, you know, 64 percent for this, I think, speaks to the success that the Governor Gavin Newsom was able to have in convincing voters to really, yes, make this a partisan fight and a referendum on the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] So Guy, I mean Prop 50’s win wasn’t always a guarantee. There were some early polls that showed California voters were hesitant to redraw the maps. 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One, that they supported the idea of having citizens draw lines, not favoring either political party, but also using this election to push back against the Trump administration and the efforts by Republicans nationwide to pursue seats through gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:49] Yeah, and Governor Newsom really came out as sort of the face of Prop 50 in many ways and was really the guy pitching this as this fight against Donald Trump. What did he say at the end of election day after seeing these results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] Yeah, what we heard from Newsom on election night was really a call for other states to follow in California’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] We need the state of Virginia. We need state of Maryland. We need our friends in New York, in Illinois, in Colorado. 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So they heard from residents in Pittsburgh and Antioch, but also in communities like Martinez, Richmond, Vallejo, residents who said, we have a lot in common and we’d like to be included in one congressional district. And these communities, working class, very racially diverse, expressed that to the commission and got included in one Congressional District. What the Prop 50 map does is it takes these heavily democratic voters in Antioch and in Pittsburgh, and it loops them into a district with communities in the Central Valley. 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I mean, even the county supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston who represents a lot of that area on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, it was a tough decision for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] I’m born and raised here in this community and you know I want to make sure that representation is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:28] She understood the impact of having these communities grouped together in a congressional district. She talked about how where she lives in Pittsburgh, she’s like, this is not like the Central Valley. We have very different needs than constituents in the Central valley. 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