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A blood-red arrow shot up over the growing lines, charting their rise, as if to make sure nobody could miss the more than 60% increase in deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working to reverse the overall trend,” Tavares said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No legislators asked about the chart. No one asked the director what, exactly, his agency was doing about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next three hours, the Senate Transportation Committee members asked instead about homeless encampments along roads, gas tax revenue, gender identity on ID’s and planning for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 779px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/120425-Senate-Standing-Committee-on-Transportation-CM-01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/120425-Senate-Standing-Committee-on-Transportation-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"779\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/120425-Senate-Standing-Committee-on-Transportation-CM-01.jpeg 779w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/120425-Senate-Standing-Committee-on-Transportation-CM-01-160x91.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chart presented by then-CalTrans Director Tony Tavares at the Senate Transportation Committee hearing on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The committee chair said it was the legislature’s first informational hearing on the state’s transportation system in more than a decade. Yet only two senators — both Republicans with little legislative power in a state controlled by Democrats — even asked about dangerous driving, one following up with questions about a deadly stretch of road in her district and the other about a small California Highway Patrol program to target egregious behavior behind the wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, nearly 40,000 people have died and more than 2 million have been injured on California roads. As an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/series/license-to-kill/\">ongoing CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> has shown this year, time and again those crashes were caused by repeat drunk drivers, chronic speeders and motorists with well-documented histories of recklessness behind the wheel. Year after year, officials with the power to do something about it — the governor, legislators, the courts, the Department of Motor Vehicles — have failed to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The silence, in the face of a threat that endangers nearly every Californian, is damning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has some of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/10/california-dui-failure/\">the weakest DUI laws in the nation\u003c/a>. Here, DUI-related deaths have been rising more than twice as fast as the rest of the country. But this fall, a state bill to strengthen DUI penalties was gutted at the last minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to speeding — one of the biggest causes of fatal crashes — again the legislature has done little. For two years in a row, bills that would have required the use of speed-limiting technology on vehicles have failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers did pass legislation a couple years ago that allows the use of speed cameras. 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He has declined or ignored CalMatters requests for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency simply released a statement from him in March, after our first interview request, touting modernization efforts that reflect an “ongoing commitment to enhancing accountability and transparency while continually refining our processes to ensure California’s roads are safer for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Newsom nor Gordon has announced any major changes since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How a bill to fight DUIs fails in Sacramento\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For a brief moment earlier this year, Colin Campbell thought the state might finally do something about the scourge that changed his life one night in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A repeat drunk driver slammed into his Prius on the way to the family’s new home in Joshua Tree, killing his 17-year-old daughter, Ruby, and 14-year-old son, Hart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/111625-Traffic-Vigil-FG-CM-25-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"On the steps of a building at night, two people hug beside a microphone, while rows of small orange traffic cones and string lights line the stairs, each cone paired with a photo of a person, creating a memorial-like display.\">\u003cfigcaption>Erika Pringle, at right, embraces Allison Lyman, whose son died in a collision, during a candlelight vigil as part of The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims at the Capitol in Sacramento on Nov. 16, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campbell, a writer and director from Los Angeles, began advocating for California to join most other states and create a law requiring in-car breathalyzers for anyone convicted of a DUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first he was encouraged when the bill coasted through two legislative committees. But then came the roadblocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU opposed the measure, calling it “a form of racialized wealth extraction,” according to a Senate Public Safety Committee report from July. In California, people forced to use the devices have to pay about $100 a month to a private company to rent them, though there’s supposed to be a sliding fee scale based on income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the DMV\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB366\"> told lawmakers\u003c/a> that it could not “complete the necessary programming” for the law, citing possible technology delays and costs of $15 million or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was gutted. California couldn’t do something that nearly three dozen other states could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell called the sudden reversal a shameful example of forsaking public safety for bureaucracy.[aside postID=news_12058605 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40878_001_KQED_MarketStCarFree_01232020_8469-qut-1020x680.jpg']“Our lives were destroyed that night,” he said. “If these people’s children had been killed by a drunk driver, there is no way they would be objecting to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the law had passed, DMV data suggests that California judges would have mostly ignored it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law says judges have to require in-car breathalyzers for people convicted of repeat DUIs. Last month, the DMV issued a report reinforcing what a similar report laid out two years earlier. Judges across the state ordered the devices just one-third of the time for repeat offenders. In 14 counties, they ordered the devices less than 10% of the time for second-time DUI offenders. The counties are: Alameda, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Los Angeles, Madera, Mono, Plumas, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Sierra, Tulare and Yuba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMV officials did not answer questions about what, if anything, the agency was doing about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We reached out to all 14 counties’ courts. Only eight responded to questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Ruhl, executive officer for the Glenn County Superior Court, said the court is looking at local changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the light CalMatters is bringing to this issue … the Glenn Court will review its current DUI sentencing practices,” according to a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glenn was one of a number of counties — including LA, Alameda and San Luis Obispo — that also suggested it wasn’t their judges’ responsibility to issue a court order. They said they only needed to notify the DMV of the convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the law is clear: It’s the judge’s job to order the offender to use the device, said Jerry Hill, the retired Bay Area Democrat who wrote the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he worked in the Capitol, Hill said he also saw little urgency to rein in intoxicated driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask any legislator, they are going to say it’s a terrible, terrible thing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said committee chairs and staff members who set the tone and write analyses often shied away from increasing criminal penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where we see a lack of understanding, in my view, of the devastating effect of drunk driving in California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lawmakers say next session could bring change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A number of lawmakers said they are aware of the carnage on our roadways and plan to do something about it this coming legislative session, maybe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Bob Archuleta, a Democrat from Norwalk who sits on the Transportation Committee, lost his granddaughter to a drunk driver just before Christmas last year. He said he recently met with representatives from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and is considering possible bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/111625-Traffic-Vigil-FG-CM-27-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"People stand on the steps of a building during a nighttime vigil, holding candles and a large framed portrait of a young woman. Orange cones and small memorial photos line the stairs, illuminated by string lights, while a speaker reads from a phone and others face the crowd.\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/111625-Traffic-Vigil-FG-CM-06-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a memorial hoodie stands behind a table covered with framed photos, candles, and keepsakes honoring a young person. Other people nearby hold large portrait posters during a nighttime vigil outside a government building, with trees and lit windows in the background.\">\u003c/figure>\u003cfigcaption>\u003cstrong>First: \u003c/strong>At far right, Fumiko Torres speaks about losing Rayanna Diaz while standing alongside other family members during a candlelight vigil as part of The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims event at the Capitol in Sacramento on Nov. 16, 2025. \u003cstrong>Last: \u003c/strong>Allison Lyman stands at a table honoring her son Connor, who was killed in a traffic collision, before the start of a candlelight vigil as part of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims at the Capitol in Sacramento on Nov. 16, 2025. Photos by Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is not a Republican issue, a Democrat issue, an independent issue — or political issue. This is a life-saving issue,” he said. “We should all take it as seriously as the family that lost a loved one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Nick Schultz of Burbank said he is considering introducing at least one measure next year to address loopholes and weaknesses in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schultz, who started his career prosecuting DUI cases in Oregon and now chairs the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee, said he is weighing several potential measures that would address issues CalMatters highlighted in its reporting this year, including lengthening license suspensions after fatal crashes, lowering the bar to charge repeat drunk drivers with a felony, strengthening breathalyzer requirements and making sure vehicular manslaughter convictions get reported to the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>People are tired of seeing the needless loss of life on our roadways,” Schultz said. “There’s no way to legislatively make someone make the right choice. But what we can do is create an incentive structure where there are consequences for bad decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of more leadership at the state level, road safety advocates — many of whom joined the cause after losing a loved one to a preventable car crash — are taking it on themselves to try to force change. They’re meeting with lawmakers and officials, holding public events, telling their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Levi started working with MADD after her son, Braun, was killed in May while he was out walking with friends in Manhattan Beach. She said they’d only recently relocated to the area after the family home burned down in the Palisades fire, destroying “all of Braun’s pictures, videos from when he was born.”[aside postID=news_12020559 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-26-1020x680.jpg']The driver who killed her son was allegedly intoxicated and had a prior DUI arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst day of my life is now my life’s work. I will not stop until California changes,” Levi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since her son’s death, Levi said, she’s met with any officials or influential people she could — current and former lawmakers, district attorneys, local council members, a lobbyist, and members of the media. Among the changes she wants: to make it easier to charge repeat DUI offenders with murder when they kill someone, to make fatal DUIs a violent felony and to increase penalties for hit-and-run fatalities. As CalMatters reported in October, California law often treats drunken vehicular manslaughter as a nonviolent crime with minimal time behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levi calls her push to reform the system “Braun’s Bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many grieving families share a similar goal: for those they lost to be remembered by a state and society that seem indifferent. That desire was on display last month during an event in Sacramento to mark the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a cold Sunday evening in mid-November, after a break in the rain, dozens of relatives of people killed in car crashes gathered on the dark steps of the state Capitol for a candlelight vigil. They fought to keep photos on posterboards upright in the gale-force winds. Family by family, they ascended the steps, stood above a display of orange cones lit with strands of white lights and addressed the onlookers, talking about their loved ones and what was lost — children left without their mother, mothers without their children, a wife left without the love of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day I live and I wake up and I pretend like I’m happy. Every day I wish my stairs would make noise. I miss being called mom,” said Angel Dela Cruz, whose 17-year-old son Edward Alvidrez Jr. was hit by a truck while riding a dirt bike in Madera County in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope we all get justice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event ended with a moment of quiet reflection and a prayer before the families put away their pictures and walked off, the Capitol behind them locked, silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/12/california-roadway-deaths-inaction/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Our lives were destroyed that night,” he said. “If these people’s children had been killed by a drunk driver, there is no way they would be objecting to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the law had passed, DMV data suggests that California judges would have mostly ignored it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law says judges have to require in-car breathalyzers for people convicted of repeat DUIs. Last month, the DMV issued a report reinforcing what a similar report laid out two years earlier. Judges across the state ordered the devices just one-third of the time for repeat offenders. In 14 counties, they ordered the devices less than 10% of the time for second-time DUI offenders. The counties are: Alameda, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Los Angeles, Madera, Mono, Plumas, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Sierra, Tulare and Yuba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMV officials did not answer questions about what, if anything, the agency was doing about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We reached out to all 14 counties’ courts. Only eight responded to questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Ruhl, executive officer for the Glenn County Superior Court, said the court is looking at local changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the light CalMatters is bringing to this issue … the Glenn Court will review its current DUI sentencing practices,” according to a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glenn was one of a number of counties — including LA, Alameda and San Luis Obispo — that also suggested it wasn’t their judges’ responsibility to issue a court order. They said they only needed to notify the DMV of the convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the law is clear: It’s the judge’s job to order the offender to use the device, said Jerry Hill, the retired Bay Area Democrat who wrote the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he worked in the Capitol, Hill said he also saw little urgency to rein in intoxicated driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask any legislator, they are going to say it’s a terrible, terrible thing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said committee chairs and staff members who set the tone and write analyses often shied away from increasing criminal penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where we see a lack of understanding, in my view, of the devastating effect of drunk driving in California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lawmakers say next session could bring change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A number of lawmakers said they are aware of the carnage on our roadways and plan to do something about it this coming legislative session, maybe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Bob Archuleta, a Democrat from Norwalk who sits on the Transportation Committee, lost his granddaughter to a drunk driver just before Christmas last year. He said he recently met with representatives from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and is considering possible bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/111625-Traffic-Vigil-FG-CM-27-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"People stand on the steps of a building during a nighttime vigil, holding candles and a large framed portrait of a young woman. Orange cones and small memorial photos line the stairs, illuminated by string lights, while a speaker reads from a phone and others face the crowd.\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/111625-Traffic-Vigil-FG-CM-06-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a memorial hoodie stands behind a table covered with framed photos, candles, and keepsakes honoring a young person. Other people nearby hold large portrait posters during a nighttime vigil outside a government building, with trees and lit windows in the background.\">\u003c/figure>\u003cfigcaption>\u003cstrong>First: \u003c/strong>At far right, Fumiko Torres speaks about losing Rayanna Diaz while standing alongside other family members during a candlelight vigil as part of The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims event at the Capitol in Sacramento on Nov. 16, 2025. \u003cstrong>Last: \u003c/strong>Allison Lyman stands at a table honoring her son Connor, who was killed in a traffic collision, before the start of a candlelight vigil as part of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims at the Capitol in Sacramento on Nov. 16, 2025. Photos by Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is not a Republican issue, a Democrat issue, an independent issue — or political issue. 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"content": "\u003cp>After families were informed last month that Sutter Health planned to join a growing list of health care providers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065480/its-just-cruel-bay-area-parents-say-sutter-health-is-set-to-halt-trans-youth-care\">limiting gender-affirming care for minors\u003c/a>, some say the Northern California-based network is reversing course, despite mounting pressure from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the temporary reprieve is shaky, according to East Bay mother Nikki, whose 14-year-old son relies on a Sutter doctor for frequent, steady care. The Trump administration on Thursday announced funding restrictions that could effectively \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/18/nx-s1-5647789/transgender-gender-affirming-care-rfk-jr-dr-oz-trump\">halt all pediatric gender-affirming care\u003c/a>, and Nikki worries the move could push Sutter to backtrack — and make it nearly impossible to find a provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying really hard to hold on to the victory of this last week and a half or so that this care has not stopped,” she told KQED. “But that unforeseeable future weighs heavily on my husband and I. We do our best to shelter our children, but this is the world intruding upon our lives and the government trying to make decisions for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Nikki, who asked to be identified by only her first name for fear of retribution against her and her son’s caregiver, was informed that his care would be discontinued just weeks later, on Dec. 10. Several other families with transgender children said their doctors had relayed similar messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last week, according to Nikki, her son’s doctor said the hospital network appeared to reverse course and would no longer stop offering treatments on that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Sutter said it was working to ensure compliance with recent federal actions affecting gender-affirming care for patients under 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980957\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sutter Health CPMC Davies Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sutter-aligned physicians are engaging directly with their patients to have open and thoughtful conversations and to determine individual care plans that will meet anticipated requirements,” the nonprofit hospital network said, adding that gender-affirming surgeries for young patients had previously ceased. “We continue to support careful, patient-centered discussions with appropriate resources and guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki said she’s still waiting for her son’s future appointments to be rescheduled after they were canceled last month, but she’s heard from other families that they’ve been able to get back on their caregivers’ calendars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, the last few weeks have been extremely nerve-wracking as she and other families awaited pending federal policy moves that would essentially ban gender-affirming care for youth, even in states where it’s legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That came Thursday morning, when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced two new rules.[aside postID=news_12065480 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-1_qed.jpg']The first would prevent hospitals and doctors from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for gender-affirming care for children. Medicaid offers health coverage to millions of low-income Americans. The second would go further, blocking all funding from Medicaid and Medicare, which covers older people and those with disabilities, for medical centers that provide gender-affirming care to youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals rely heavily on Medicaid and Medicare funding to operate — combined, the two federal programs covered about 45% of spending on hospital care in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-costs/key-facts-about-hospitals/?entry=national-hospital-spending-spending-by-payer\">according to the health policy research organization KFF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rules have to go through a 60-day period during which the public can weigh in, and they are likely to face legal challenges; the American Civil Liberties Union has already said it plans to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they’re finalized, though, Nikki worries that it will become nearly impossible to find a doctor who offers the care her son needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then what am I going to do to find a physician? Who are those physicians?” Nikki asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because other major networks have already moved to limit gender-affirming care in light of the Trump administration’s crackdown. In June, Stanford Medicine paused gender-affirming surgeries and stopped providing prescriptions for puberty blockers to young people, and Kaiser Permanente halted surgical care in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-31_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-31_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-31_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-31_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calder Storm waves a transgender flag at a rally and vigil, honoring transgender patients affected by Kaiser’s decision to halt gender-affirming care to minors, outside of Kaiser Permanente on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nikki called the president’s efforts to withhold funding from caregivers who provide gender affirming care “financial sabotage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s terrifying,” she said. “It feels completely helpless and hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been searching for a new provider who doesn’t rely on federal funding since the initial word last month from her Sutter doctor, but she hasn’t found one yet. The threat that her son’s care could be stopped with just days or weeks of notice is especially worrisome, she said, because of how time sensitive it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He takes a weekly testosterone shot, which has to be picked up one dose at a time, and re-prescribed every six months, due to their insurance coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, he’s out of refills. He’s still within his normal dose cycle, Nikki said, but if he’s unable to get a new prescription within days and falls behind, the effects will be pretty immediately noticeable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she thinks he’ll be able to see his Sutter caregiver for a prescription this time, if that option goes away in the future, “I’m, for lack of a word, shit out of luck,” Nikki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nnavarro\">\u003cem>Natalia Navarro\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After families were informed last month that Sutter Health planned to join a growing list of health care providers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065480/its-just-cruel-bay-area-parents-say-sutter-health-is-set-to-halt-trans-youth-care\">limiting gender-affirming care for minors\u003c/a>, some say the Northern California-based network is reversing course, despite mounting pressure from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the temporary reprieve is shaky, according to East Bay mother Nikki, whose 14-year-old son relies on a Sutter doctor for frequent, steady care. The Trump administration on Thursday announced funding restrictions that could effectively \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/18/nx-s1-5647789/transgender-gender-affirming-care-rfk-jr-dr-oz-trump\">halt all pediatric gender-affirming care\u003c/a>, and Nikki worries the move could push Sutter to backtrack — and make it nearly impossible to find a provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying really hard to hold on to the victory of this last week and a half or so that this care has not stopped,” she told KQED. “But that unforeseeable future weighs heavily on my husband and I. We do our best to shelter our children, but this is the world intruding upon our lives and the government trying to make decisions for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Nikki, who asked to be identified by only her first name for fear of retribution against her and her son’s caregiver, was informed that his care would be discontinued just weeks later, on Dec. 10. Several other families with transgender children said their doctors had relayed similar messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last week, according to Nikki, her son’s doctor said the hospital network appeared to reverse course and would no longer stop offering treatments on that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Sutter said it was working to ensure compliance with recent federal actions affecting gender-affirming care for patients under 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980957\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240208-HospitalViolence-11-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sutter Health CPMC Davies Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sutter-aligned physicians are engaging directly with their patients to have open and thoughtful conversations and to determine individual care plans that will meet anticipated requirements,” the nonprofit hospital network said, adding that gender-affirming surgeries for young patients had previously ceased. “We continue to support careful, patient-centered discussions with appropriate resources and guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki said she’s still waiting for her son’s future appointments to be rescheduled after they were canceled last month, but she’s heard from other families that they’ve been able to get back on their caregivers’ calendars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, the last few weeks have been extremely nerve-wracking as she and other families awaited pending federal policy moves that would essentially ban gender-affirming care for youth, even in states where it’s legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That came Thursday morning, when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced two new rules.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The first would prevent hospitals and doctors from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for gender-affirming care for children. Medicaid offers health coverage to millions of low-income Americans. The second would go further, blocking all funding from Medicaid and Medicare, which covers older people and those with disabilities, for medical centers that provide gender-affirming care to youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals rely heavily on Medicaid and Medicare funding to operate — combined, the two federal programs covered about 45% of spending on hospital care in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-costs/key-facts-about-hospitals/?entry=national-hospital-spending-spending-by-payer\">according to the health policy research organization KFF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rules have to go through a 60-day period during which the public can weigh in, and they are likely to face legal challenges; the American Civil Liberties Union has already said it plans to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they’re finalized, though, Nikki worries that it will become nearly impossible to find a doctor who offers the care her son needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then what am I going to do to find a physician? Who are those physicians?” Nikki asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because other major networks have already moved to limit gender-affirming care in light of the Trump administration’s crackdown. In June, Stanford Medicine paused gender-affirming surgeries and stopped providing prescriptions for puberty blockers to young people, and Kaiser Permanente halted surgical care in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-31_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-31_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-31_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-31_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calder Storm waves a transgender flag at a rally and vigil, honoring transgender patients affected by Kaiser’s decision to halt gender-affirming care to minors, outside of Kaiser Permanente on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nikki called the president’s efforts to withhold funding from caregivers who provide gender affirming care “financial sabotage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s terrifying,” she said. “It feels completely helpless and hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been searching for a new provider who doesn’t rely on federal funding since the initial word last month from her Sutter doctor, but she hasn’t found one yet. The threat that her son’s care could be stopped with just days or weeks of notice is especially worrisome, she said, because of how time sensitive it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He takes a weekly testosterone shot, which has to be picked up one dose at a time, and re-prescribed every six months, due to their insurance coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, he’s out of refills. He’s still within his normal dose cycle, Nikki said, but if he’s unable to get a new prescription within days and falls behind, the effects will be pretty immediately noticeable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she thinks he’ll be able to see his Sutter caregiver for a prescription this time, if that option goes away in the future, “I’m, for lack of a word, shit out of luck,” Nikki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nnavarro\">\u003cem>Natalia Navarro\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A medical association has petitioned California to prohibit the use of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064693/california-doctors-urge-ban-on-engineered-stone-as-silicosis-cases-surge\">popular countertop construction material\u003c/a> linked to an aggressive lung disease disabling and killing stoneworkers. The campaign escalated pressure on the state to follow Australia, which became the first country to ban engineered stone last year after facing a similar health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the U.S.’s strictest regulations to prevent workers from inhaling toxic silica dust — generated by the cutting, polishing and grinding of engineered stone slabs to make kitchen countertops, bathroom vanities, fireplace surfaces and other products. Most countertop fabrication shops, however, don’t have the money or capacity to comply with the rules, leaving thousands of stonecutters at risk of contracting silicosis, according to the Western Occupational & Environmental Medical Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence is now clear that engineered stone containing crystalline silica is too toxic to fabricate and install safely, and education and enforcement alone will not be sufficient to curtail the escalating occupational health emergency caused by this product,” WOEMA’s Dec. 12 letter to regulators said. The association represents more than 600 occupational safety physicians and other experts in seven western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors requested that the state body that adopts new job safety rules to start the process to ban all fabrication and installation tasks on engineered stone containing more than 1% crystalline silica, similar to Australia’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, which declined to comment on WOEMA’s letter, has up to six months to review and decide. The proposal is likely to face stiff opposition from manufacturers, distributors and fabricators of engineered stone, also known as quartz or artificial stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial stone represents a growing multibillion-dollar market in the U.S., with increasing demand expected in California due to the rebuilding effort in Los Angeles after the massive fires in January 2025. More than half of the silicosis cases in the state are located in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone fabricator places his hand on a table that he cut at his home in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laurie Weber, who directs the International Surface Fabricators Association, said Australia’s model is not directly transferable to the U.S. economy, and that more research is needed to understand what would happen if hundreds of small and mid-size fabrication businesses suddenly had to stop working with their primary material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ISFA does not believe a ban is the answer. The problem is not the material. The problem is employers ignoring the law and a lack of enforcement resources to ensure compliance,” Weber said in a statement. “Before California considers a prohibition that would reshape an entire segment of the construction economy, we respectfully request clarity on how WOEMA determined that engineered stone cannot be fabricated safely — even in shops fully compliant with Cal/OSHA’s existing silica standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ISFA and others in the industry instead support a licensing program, in which only shops certified to handle artificial stone following regulations have access to it. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB20\">recent law\u003c/a> signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that addresses the rise of silicosis through education and enforcement initially included a certification system — but that component was removed from the final draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 450 silicosis cases have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/OHB/Pages/essdashboard.aspx\">confirmed\u003c/a> among stoneworkers in California since 2019, and regulators expect the numbers could rise to between 1,000 and 1,500 within the next decade. Nearly all of those sick are Latino men, many immigrants lacking permanent legal status, who didn’t know about the hazards of working on crystalline silica products. Twenty-five stoneworkers died, and dozens received lung transplants, according to the California Department of Public Health.[aside postID=news_12064693 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as this dangerous material remains available and is purchased and used in California, it’s inevitable that people will continue to be exposed and die,” Robert Blink, an occupational medicine doctor in San Francisco and former WOEMA president, told KQED. “There’s always resistance to change. But when you’ve got something this dangerous out there that’s literally killing people … we’ve got to stop this from going up. This is not a time for small measures, frankly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engineered stone can contain more than 90% crystalline silica, much more than natural stones such as marble. The factory-made material’s popularity has skyrocketed because it is stain-resistant, produced in attractive colors and designs and is often cheaper than natural stones. But many consumers are unaware of the hazards that artificial stone dust poses to the workers who shape and install their countertops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing scientific evidence has shown that the silica dust released by the material is so toxic that small amounts of exposure are enough to make workers sick. The tiny airborne particles can penetrate filter masks and lodge in the lungs, causing progressive scarring and injury in workers, some as young as their 20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of silicosis cases have also been reported by doctors in Illinois, Utah, Colorado, Massachusetts, as well as other states that are not tracking the disease as systematically as California’s public health authorities. Those figures are widely believed to be underreported. Israel, Spain and other countries have also seen a surge in silicosis tied to engineered stone. Medical experts in the UK are urging authorities to prohibit the use of the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Nevin, an attorney at Brayton Purcell, a firm that represents hundreds of sick workers suing major manufacturers and distributors of artificial stone, said clients are located in 16 other states, including New York, Nevada, Florida, Kentucky and Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033303\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/StonecutterGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/StonecutterGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/StonecutterGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/StonecutterGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/StonecutterGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/StonecutterGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/StonecutterGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone countertop fabricator’s hands are covered in dust at a shop on Oct. 31, 2023, in Sun Valley, California. Inhaling fine particles can contribute to silicosis. \u003ccite>(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California currently bans the dry cutting of engineered stone and mandates the use of wet methods — machines that submerge or cover the material’s surface with water to suppress dust. Employers are also required to implement local exhaust ventilation, ensure employees wear powered air-purifying respirators and take other measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cal/OSHA inspectors have found most of the 120 shops they’ve visited in the last two years were violating the rules, which fabricators and doctors consider too expensive and challenging for many employers to follow. California has about 4,600 countertop fabrication workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major manufacturers, such as Israel-based Caesarstone, did not immediately return requests for comment on the California ban proposal, but publicly opposed a prohibition in Australia. A spokesperson for Cosentino, a company headquartered in Spain, also declined to comment, but told KQED last month that silicosis is preventable when proper safety and health measures are in place to protect workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies, which face hundreds of lawsuits by workers claiming silica-related injuries in the U.S. and other countries, have developed crystalline silica-free products for the Australian market but continue to sell high-silica engineered stone in the U.S.[aside postID=news_12066901 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-04-KQED-2.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors who’ve followed the issue argue that the safer alternatives have similar qualities, appearance and cost to traditional engineered stone and could be made immediately available in California, without significant economic consequences for fabrication businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers have publicly expressed dismay at the rising number of silicosis cases in the state, but have not favored a prohibition so far. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors requested that the state body that adopts new job safety rules to start the process to ban all fabrication and installation tasks on engineered stone containing more than 1% crystalline silica, similar to Australia’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, which declined to comment on WOEMA’s letter, has up to six months to review and decide. The proposal is likely to face stiff opposition from manufacturers, distributors and fabricators of engineered stone, also known as quartz or artificial stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial stone represents a growing multibillion-dollar market in the U.S., with increasing demand expected in California due to the rebuilding effort in Los Angeles after the massive fires in January 2025. More than half of the silicosis cases in the state are located in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone fabricator places his hand on a table that he cut at his home in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laurie Weber, who directs the International Surface Fabricators Association, said Australia’s model is not directly transferable to the U.S. economy, and that more research is needed to understand what would happen if hundreds of small and mid-size fabrication businesses suddenly had to stop working with their primary material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ISFA does not believe a ban is the answer. The problem is not the material. The problem is employers ignoring the law and a lack of enforcement resources to ensure compliance,” Weber said in a statement. “Before California considers a prohibition that would reshape an entire segment of the construction economy, we respectfully request clarity on how WOEMA determined that engineered stone cannot be fabricated safely — even in shops fully compliant with Cal/OSHA’s existing silica standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ISFA and others in the industry instead support a licensing program, in which only shops certified to handle artificial stone following regulations have access to it. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB20\">recent law\u003c/a> signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that addresses the rise of silicosis through education and enforcement initially included a certification system — but that component was removed from the final draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 450 silicosis cases have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/OHB/Pages/essdashboard.aspx\">confirmed\u003c/a> among stoneworkers in California since 2019, and regulators expect the numbers could rise to between 1,000 and 1,500 within the next decade. Nearly all of those sick are Latino men, many immigrants lacking permanent legal status, who didn’t know about the hazards of working on crystalline silica products. Twenty-five stoneworkers died, and dozens received lung transplants, according to the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But now, folks are preparing for the biggest challenge yet: more than a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid and other social services in the coming decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058930/medicaid-cuts-could-put-services-for-disabled-californians-at-risk\">slashing a lifeline\u003c/a> for disabled people nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alice fought like hell to exist in her body and mind every day,” said Hernandez-Wilson, who works for a nonprofit that advocates for domestic workers and caretakers. “There is a larger system at play that dictates if we are worthy enough of getting care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raised in rural Minnesota, Hernandez-Wilson was the only student with a disability in her class and one of the few students of color in her entire school. “I was afraid that if I was labeled as a certain type of disabled person, I would be locked away in a classroom … that deep internalized ableism can really mess with your mind,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617802/disability-visibility-by-alice-wong/\">\u003cem>Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an anthology edited by Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, left, and Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, right, hold hands at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Hernandez-Wilson and Ho, who both worked closely with disability justice leader Alice Wong, are mourning their loss, yet continuing their fight for disability justice. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time in my entire life that I really saw disabled people who looked like me embody self-love, embracing their body and mind,” she said. “It was like a hug from the universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hernandez-Wilson moved to the Bay Area last year, Wong became her mentor and friend. They shared jokes, stories of old crushes and how each managed their health. Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Wong dealt with chronic health issues throughout her life. After a series of medical emergencies in 2022, she began communicating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601143471/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice-2\">through text-to-speech technology\u003c/a> and her family confirmed that her death was due to an infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the systems weren’t the way they are, many of our people would still be here,” said Hernandez-Wilson. But even after Wong’s passing, she said, a generation of activists mentored by her is ready to push forward a bolder vision of liberation for all disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Centering the most marginalized\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gifted with radiant charm and a disarming sense of humor, Wong, who was 51, built coalitions between different disabled communities. Cross-disability solidarity is \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/\">a core principle of disability justice\u003c/a>, a framework developed over the last decade by queer and trans disabled activists of color in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 20th century, the primary objective for many disabled activists was securing equal employment, political participation and economic self-sufficiency — as outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, sits in the courtyard at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This organizing was rooted in the Bay Area: the independent living movement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/news/2017-04-05/berkeley-disability-activists-took-cues-from-the-civil-rights-era-and-sparked-a-national-movement\">took off here in the 1970s\u003c/a>; activists in Berkeley created the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/they-took-sledgehammers-sidewalks-heres-why-curb-cut-effect/\">first sidewalk curb cuts\u003c/a>; and in 1977, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13966861/judith-heumann-disability-rights-uc-berkeley-center-independent-living\">more than 100 disabled protesters\u003c/a> occupied the San Francisco Federal Building to demand implementation of the rule that prohibited discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of disability justice maintain that ableism affects everyone — particularly those living with disabilities — and call for a future free of all systems that oppress disabled people. This fight, Wong said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2003809/episodes/10799918-making-the-world-brighter-sassier-and-more-colorful-alice-wong-on-disability-justice\">a 2022 podcast\u003c/a>, “must center on the most marginalized.” Nowhere is this more necessary, she added, than in a post-COVID world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cities and states rushed to loosen pandemic restrictions, Wong pushed back and demanded hospitals — including her own care provider, UCSF — continue \u003ca href=\"https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95s4ucsf-call-to-action/\">requiring face masks\u003c/a> and expand \u003ca href=\"https://nursing.ucsf.edu/news/disability-and-health-care-conversation-activist-alice-wong\">research into treatments\u003c/a> for those living with long COVID.[aside postID=news_11984990 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Featured-photo-horizontal-Alice-Wong-1020x574.png']That’s how she met Charlie McCone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before contracting COVID in 2020, McCone, 35, said he had never experienced a serious health problem before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you go from biking 10 miles a day to work to being housebound indefinitely, losing your job and not having any answers from the medical system, it is absolutely devastating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/long-covid\">Long COVID\u003c/a> — a chronic condition that follows many coronavirus infections and still confounds researchers — permanently altered McCone’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searching for answers to his condition, he joined Twitter (now known as X). From his San Francisco home, he shared his experiences online, hoping more people would take long COVID seriously. But after two years, “I came to the realization that otherwise good and reasonable people are still completely unfazed by the fact that their next COVID infection could cause extreme harm to them or their family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started to feel rage at the injustices he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People disabled by this virus and those already disabled prior to the pandemic are being completely disregarded and considered disposable by the general public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preparing for cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While others recommended he temper his emotions online, Wong encouraged McCone to lean into them. They met in person for the first time in 2023 over tea and soon got to work: over the next year, their online network launched \u003ca href=\"https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/\">a massive social media campaign\u003c/a> to pressure federal lawmakers to address the needs of those with long COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts would bear fruit in January 2024 when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) held the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/20/1225862790/advocates-push-for-greater-investment-in-long-covid-research-at-senate-hearing\">first Congressional hearing\u003c/a> on long COVID. Patients and doctors testified and called for long-term investments in research. Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006894/bay-areas-long-covid-community-celebrates-moonshot-bill-for-10-billion-in-funding\">later proposed $10 billion\u003c/a> in funding for research, treatment and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Eli Gelardin, Director of the Mayor’s Office on Disability, speaks with Alice Wong, a disability rights activist, and Debbie Kaplan, Deputy Director of Programmatic Access, at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Alice could make incredibly meaningful change through media,” McCone said, adding that folks living with long COVID need to keep sharing their stories — now more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation to fund long COVID research has stalled since Republicans took control of Congress, but the Trump administration is moving quickly to implement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997707/how-will-trumps-mega-bill-impact-health-care-in-california\">major health care reforms\u003c/a> outlined in the sweeping legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new eligibility rules for Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s Medicaid program that covers over 15 million low-income Californians. State health officials predict that up to 3.4 million Medi-Cal recipients could lose their coverage in the coming years under new rules that include more frequent eligibility screenings and work requirements for certain groups. While the White House \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/\">insists\u003c/a> that the bill will not take coverage away from Americans with disabilities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058930/medicaid-cuts-could-put-services-for-disabled-californians-at-risk\">independent policy experts note\u003c/a> that California will lose matching federal funds as residents lose their Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers could respond by \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/history-repeats-faced-medicaid-cuts-states-reduced-support-older-adults-and-disabled\">cutting home and community-based services\u003c/a>, which allow people with disabilities to receive treatment, care and job training in their own communities rather than in institutions like nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really want people with disabilities to get jobs, then you don’t cut the health care that allows people to stay well enough to work,” said Silvia Yee, public policy director at the Berkeley-based Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. “You don’t cut the services that help people with disabilities navigate hiring and settling into a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Medicaid changes, Yee noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill also failed to extend subsidies for people who bought health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces like Covered California. Many people with a disability or chronic illness have an ACA insurance plan and will have to pay more to receive necessary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These all seem like different cuts, but they affect the same pool of people,” Yee said. “All of this together makes it incredibly hard for people with disabilities to participate and live as part of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The weight of carrying out disability justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The future can quite often feel precarious when you’re disabled, said Sandy Ho, one of Wong’s closest friends and executive director of the Disability and Philanthropy Forum. Ho, originally from Boston, met Wong 15 years ago online. They didn’t meet in person until Ho moved to Oakland, but the bond of their friendship endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are always forces trying to take away our health care, and Alice understood that on a level that emboldened her to just say, ‘F— it all, either you’re with me, or you’re not,’” said Ho, who Wong tasked with carrying forward some of her unfinished projects, including her next book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, a disability justice activist, poses for a portrait at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Ho worked closely with Alice Wong, a disability justice leader who died in November. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many of us got to witness her life and be a part of it on so many different levels,” she said, adding that Wong loved organizing dinner parties for her friends, bringing together artists, organizers, researchers and health care workers. “She is our future — the future looks like getting fed really well because disabled people deserve delicious things. Disabled people deserve joy, to have fun and create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year also saw the death of another leader in the disabled community: Patty Berne — co-founder of the Bay Area-based performance group \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/about-sins/\">Sins Invalid\u003c/a> and one of the minds behind the disability justice framework — \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/08/patty-berne-obituary-disability-justice-movement/\">died last May in Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I have unfortunately experienced a lot in the disability community is grief,” said Rosemary McDonnell-Horita, a Berkeley-based writer who was a friend to Wong and Berne. “The depths of love also come with the depths of grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigns both online and in Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://dredf.org/oppose-cuts-to-medi-cal/\">are already underway\u003c/a> to protect Medi-Cal funding that serves disabled Californians. Other friends of Wong are \u003ca href=\"https://llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong-was-crips-for-esims-for\">continuing her call\u003c/a> to help provide disabled Palestinians in Gaza with cellular data. And McDonnell-Horita plans to keep working on a project that Wong loudly cheered: a cookbook for disabled people by disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all now bear the weight of carrying out disability justice to the best of our ability,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alice fought like hell to exist in her body and mind every day,” said Hernandez-Wilson, who works for a nonprofit that advocates for domestic workers and caretakers. “There is a larger system at play that dictates if we are worthy enough of getting care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raised in rural Minnesota, Hernandez-Wilson was the only student with a disability in her class and one of the few students of color in her entire school. “I was afraid that if I was labeled as a certain type of disabled person, I would be locked away in a classroom … that deep internalized ableism can really mess with your mind,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617802/disability-visibility-by-alice-wong/\">\u003cem>Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an anthology edited by Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, left, and Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, right, hold hands at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Hernandez-Wilson and Ho, who both worked closely with disability justice leader Alice Wong, are mourning their loss, yet continuing their fight for disability justice. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time in my entire life that I really saw disabled people who looked like me embody self-love, embracing their body and mind,” she said. “It was like a hug from the universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hernandez-Wilson moved to the Bay Area last year, Wong became her mentor and friend. They shared jokes, stories of old crushes and how each managed their health. Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Wong dealt with chronic health issues throughout her life. After a series of medical emergencies in 2022, she began communicating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601143471/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice-2\">through text-to-speech technology\u003c/a> and her family confirmed that her death was due to an infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the systems weren’t the way they are, many of our people would still be here,” said Hernandez-Wilson. But even after Wong’s passing, she said, a generation of activists mentored by her is ready to push forward a bolder vision of liberation for all disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Centering the most marginalized\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gifted with radiant charm and a disarming sense of humor, Wong, who was 51, built coalitions between different disabled communities. Cross-disability solidarity is \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/\">a core principle of disability justice\u003c/a>, a framework developed over the last decade by queer and trans disabled activists of color in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 20th century, the primary objective for many disabled activists was securing equal employment, political participation and economic self-sufficiency — as outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, sits in the courtyard at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This organizing was rooted in the Bay Area: the independent living movement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/news/2017-04-05/berkeley-disability-activists-took-cues-from-the-civil-rights-era-and-sparked-a-national-movement\">took off here in the 1970s\u003c/a>; activists in Berkeley created the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/they-took-sledgehammers-sidewalks-heres-why-curb-cut-effect/\">first sidewalk curb cuts\u003c/a>; and in 1977, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13966861/judith-heumann-disability-rights-uc-berkeley-center-independent-living\">more than 100 disabled protesters\u003c/a> occupied the San Francisco Federal Building to demand implementation of the rule that prohibited discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of disability justice maintain that ableism affects everyone — particularly those living with disabilities — and call for a future free of all systems that oppress disabled people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s how she met Charlie McCone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before contracting COVID in 2020, McCone, 35, said he had never experienced a serious health problem before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you go from biking 10 miles a day to work to being housebound indefinitely, losing your job and not having any answers from the medical system, it is absolutely devastating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/long-covid\">Long COVID\u003c/a> — a chronic condition that follows many coronavirus infections and still confounds researchers — permanently altered McCone’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searching for answers to his condition, he joined Twitter (now known as X). From his San Francisco home, he shared his experiences online, hoping more people would take long COVID seriously. But after two years, “I came to the realization that otherwise good and reasonable people are still completely unfazed by the fact that their next COVID infection could cause extreme harm to them or their family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started to feel rage at the injustices he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People disabled by this virus and those already disabled prior to the pandemic are being completely disregarded and considered disposable by the general public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preparing for cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While others recommended he temper his emotions online, Wong encouraged McCone to lean into them. They met in person for the first time in 2023 over tea and soon got to work: over the next year, their online network launched \u003ca href=\"https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/\">a massive social media campaign\u003c/a> to pressure federal lawmakers to address the needs of those with long COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts would bear fruit in January 2024 when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) held the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/20/1225862790/advocates-push-for-greater-investment-in-long-covid-research-at-senate-hearing\">first Congressional hearing\u003c/a> on long COVID. Patients and doctors testified and called for long-term investments in research. Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006894/bay-areas-long-covid-community-celebrates-moonshot-bill-for-10-billion-in-funding\">later proposed $10 billion\u003c/a> in funding for research, treatment and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Eli Gelardin, Director of the Mayor’s Office on Disability, speaks with Alice Wong, a disability rights activist, and Debbie Kaplan, Deputy Director of Programmatic Access, at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Alice could make incredibly meaningful change through media,” McCone said, adding that folks living with long COVID need to keep sharing their stories — now more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation to fund long COVID research has stalled since Republicans took control of Congress, but the Trump administration is moving quickly to implement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997707/how-will-trumps-mega-bill-impact-health-care-in-california\">major health care reforms\u003c/a> outlined in the sweeping legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new eligibility rules for Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s Medicaid program that covers over 15 million low-income Californians. State health officials predict that up to 3.4 million Medi-Cal recipients could lose their coverage in the coming years under new rules that include more frequent eligibility screenings and work requirements for certain groups. While the White House \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/\">insists\u003c/a> that the bill will not take coverage away from Americans with disabilities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058930/medicaid-cuts-could-put-services-for-disabled-californians-at-risk\">independent policy experts note\u003c/a> that California will lose matching federal funds as residents lose their Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers could respond by \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/history-repeats-faced-medicaid-cuts-states-reduced-support-older-adults-and-disabled\">cutting home and community-based services\u003c/a>, which allow people with disabilities to receive treatment, care and job training in their own communities rather than in institutions like nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really want people with disabilities to get jobs, then you don’t cut the health care that allows people to stay well enough to work,” said Silvia Yee, public policy director at the Berkeley-based Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. “You don’t cut the services that help people with disabilities navigate hiring and settling into a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Medicaid changes, Yee noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill also failed to extend subsidies for people who bought health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces like Covered California. Many people with a disability or chronic illness have an ACA insurance plan and will have to pay more to receive necessary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These all seem like different cuts, but they affect the same pool of people,” Yee said. “All of this together makes it incredibly hard for people with disabilities to participate and live as part of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The weight of carrying out disability justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The future can quite often feel precarious when you’re disabled, said Sandy Ho, one of Wong’s closest friends and executive director of the Disability and Philanthropy Forum. Ho, originally from Boston, met Wong 15 years ago online. They didn’t meet in person until Ho moved to Oakland, but the bond of their friendship endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are always forces trying to take away our health care, and Alice understood that on a level that emboldened her to just say, ‘F— it all, either you’re with me, or you’re not,’” said Ho, who Wong tasked with carrying forward some of her unfinished projects, including her next book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, a disability justice activist, poses for a portrait at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Ho worked closely with Alice Wong, a disability justice leader who died in November. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many of us got to witness her life and be a part of it on so many different levels,” she said, adding that Wong loved organizing dinner parties for her friends, bringing together artists, organizers, researchers and health care workers. “She is our future — the future looks like getting fed really well because disabled people deserve delicious things. Disabled people deserve joy, to have fun and create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year also saw the death of another leader in the disabled community: Patty Berne — co-founder of the Bay Area-based performance group \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/about-sins/\">Sins Invalid\u003c/a> and one of the minds behind the disability justice framework — \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/08/patty-berne-obituary-disability-justice-movement/\">died last May in Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I have unfortunately experienced a lot in the disability community is grief,” said Rosemary McDonnell-Horita, a Berkeley-based writer who was a friend to Wong and Berne. “The depths of love also come with the depths of grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigns both online and in Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://dredf.org/oppose-cuts-to-medi-cal/\">are already underway\u003c/a> to protect Medi-Cal funding that serves disabled Californians. Other friends of Wong are \u003ca href=\"https://llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong-was-crips-for-esims-for\">continuing her call\u003c/a> to help provide disabled Palestinians in Gaza with cellular data. And McDonnell-Horita plans to keep working on a project that Wong loudly cheered: a cookbook for disabled people by disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all now bear the weight of carrying out disability justice to the best of our ability,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sports-medicine\">sports medicine\u003c/a> has relied on data collected almost exclusively from men — an inequity that experts say underserves female athletes, and creates a barrier to preventing career-ending injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A first-of-its-kind initiative launched by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> on Friday seeks to close that gap in medical research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The net result of this disparity can be observed on playing fields, in pools, on courts, in pitches and in arenas,” said Janet Napolitano, former UC Berkeley President and founder of the Center for Security in Politics, the institute leading the project, at a press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s “Women’s Health and Performance Initiative” will collect biometric data from women student-athletes and professional players and use machine learning to create new predictive health models specifically for female physiology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the massive growth in women’s sports over the last three decades, the science has not kept pace. Published research in sports and exercise focused on women is nearly obsolete; less than 10% of sports medicine and sports science research has involved women athletes exclusively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024033 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-44-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two teammates practice at the soccer fields at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This persistent research gap has resulted in real-world disadvantages, leaving women athletes prone to preventable, career-ending injuries at rates significantly higher than their male counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Cindy Chang, the chief medical officer for the National Women’s Soccer League and a former head team physician at Cal, highlighted the severity of the research void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without that baseline epidemiological data, we have no idea how our interventions are going to impact injury rates and performance,” Chang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In collegiate and professional sports, women suffer from anterior cruciate ligament tears at significantly higher rates than men. Chang noted that she struggled to find resources to study these injury rates as far back as 1995. Thirty years later, that lack persists, she said.[aside postID=news_12049841 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250516_ValkyriesHomeOpener_GC-79_qed.jpg']“An ACL injury today can be career-ending for a female athlete, but for their male counterparts, no longer,” Napolitano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Chang noted that the first phase of research will focus on identifying the most common injuries to establish baseline data that doesn’t currently exist. This includes analyzing return-to-play protocols and the mental and physical variables that affect recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, which will likely span multiple years, will begin with collegiate athletes before expanding data collection to professional sports leagues and other academic institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano, the former Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013, said these risks carry over from the field to national defense. She noted that a significant number of women who are first responders, in the military and law enforcement, are former athletes, yet they are often held to training standards or equipped with gear designed based on male biometrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here at Berkeley, you can address a gender equity issue while at the same time improving national security,” Napolitano said during the launch event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Chang explained the physiological crossover between a midfielder on the soccer pitch and a soldier on the field, as both groups face high physical training demands and require similar mental fortitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11759022\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS38004_rowing_-_sam_harnett-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley women’s crew team has won two NCAA championships in the last five years. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If either woman is experiencing menstrual cycle-related cramping and low back pain, for example, their performance metrics, perceived wellness ratings, and objective sleep quality measurements may be impacted,” Chang wrote in an email. “And thus their ability to perform their sports and job duties may be affected as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to university officials, the program will utilize UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society to feed this data into machine learning models. The goal is to identify patterns that human analysis might miss — predicting injury risks, optimizing recovery times and tailoring nutrition plans specifically for female physiology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an ambitious endeavor,” said UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons. “What we learn from this initiative will lead to the creation of new tools — tools that can be commercialized and brought to market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The partnership also offers the university a chance to turn student-athletes into pioneers, said Jenny Simon-O’Neill, Cal’s co-athletic director. She highlighted the university’s history of producing elite talent like Alex Morgan and Missy Franklin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly believe that we have a unique opportunity in the collegiate sports environment to develop leaders of tomorrow,” Simon-O’Neill said. “Our student athletes understand the importance of innovation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two recently filed lawsuits accuse the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development of illegally going over Congress’ head to make massive changes to the way \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">federal homelessness funds\u003c/a> are distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HUD’s new grant rules would effectively defund permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing programs across the nation, eliminating proven tools that help residents exit homelessness sustainably,” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said in a statement. “This is another instance of the Trump administration prioritizing its political agenda above the needs of our most vulnerable community members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County and San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/NAEH-v-HUD-25-cv-636-Complaint-with-civil-cover-sheet-and-summons.pdf\">sued the Trump administration\u003c/a> this week, in conjunction with the National Alliance to End Homelessness and the National Low Income Housing Coalition. A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/001_Cmplt.pdf\">separate lawsuit\u003c/a> was filed last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration and a handful of other states. It marked the 47th time California sued the Trump administration in 44 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, homeless service providers are waiting anxiously to see how the litigation plays out and wondering if the impending legal battle will further delay the money they desperately need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02.jpg\" alt=\"A unhoused encampment is seen in Los Angeles. There are tents, belongings scattered and stacked, RVs in the background, a random shopping cart, and more. Many blue tarps cover the tops of the encampment area.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An encampment, in Los Angeles on June 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie A Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the matter of how long it’s going to take that concerns me,” said Robert Ratner, director of Santa Cruz County’s Housing for Health, which coordinates the county’s homelessness response. “Because while we’re waiting for these issues to get resolved, we have programs that are going to run out of money to support people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Housing and Urban Development did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement last month, HUD Secretary Scott Turner said the changes are aimed at “stopping the Biden-era slush fund that fueled the homelessness crisis, shut out faith-based providers simply because of their values, and incentivized never-ending government dependency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/trump-homeless-funds-cuts/\">changes\u003c/a> the Trump administration made to its funding policy last month. Jurisdictions applying for a piece of about $4 billion in federal homelessness funds now can’t spend more than 30% of that money on permanent housing — a significant decrease. Los Angeles County, for example, currently spends more than 80% on permanent housing. Instead, the federal government wants localities to prioritize emergency shelter and temporary housing programs that require participants to be sober or participate in treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While shelters offer a temporary respite from the streets, permanent housing can end someone’s homelessness. For years, the federal government has prioritized funding permanent housing using the “housing first” method — a strategy that moves people into housing as quickly as possible, without requiring them to first get sober or agree to addiction treatment. Veering away from both of those principles marks a major policy shift.[aside postID=news_12065708 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Last year, California communities won more than $683 million in federal homelessness funds through what is called the Continuum of Care program. About 90% of that went to permanent housing projects, which currently house tens of thousands of Californians, according to Newsom. The new rule threatens to put those people back out onto the street, he said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/25/governor-newsom-sues-trump-administration-for-cruel-cuts-to-homeless-housing-funding-that-will-hurt-families/\">news release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy also prohibits the use of federal funds for diversity and inclusion efforts, support of transgender clients, and use of “harm reduction” strategies that seek to reduce overdose deaths by helping people in active addiction use drugs more safely. And it gives preference for projects in cities, counties and states that ban homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both lawsuits allege that the Trump administration’s funding changes violate the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution by defying the rules Congress set out for distributing the funds. Congress authorized a two-year grant cycle in 2024, meaning local jurisdictions wouldn’t have to reapply for funds in 2025. The Trump administration flouted that decision when it suddenly forced jurisdictions to reapply, the lawsuits allege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits also claim the administration didn’t go through proper protocol before enacting the changes to its funding strategy, which would have included giving cities and counties more time to comply with the new rules, and allowing stakeholders to comment on the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, Ratner is of two minds about the lawsuits. On one hand, he believes the abrupt way the Trump administration rolled out the funding changes was “very inappropriate.” But he worries a lengthy court battle could tie up funds his county needs to pay people’s rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance to End Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/09/ca-homelessness-funding-population/\">sued the Trump administration\u003c/a> over similar allegations tied to a smaller, $75 million pot of homelessness funding in September. A judge \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/media/court-blocks-trump-vance-administrations-unlawful-housing-grant-restrictions/\">sided with the Alliance\u003c/a>, and temporarily barred the federal government from distributing those funds. But now that money is frozen, unable to help unhoused residents as the case moves forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“While we’re waiting for these issues to get resolved, we have programs that are going to run out of money to support people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>Robert Ratner, director, Housing for Health\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ratner worries that could happen again in this case. Santa Cruz County is set to start hitting serious financial problems as soon as February, Ratner said. That’s when a $1.2 million supportive housing grant, which currently houses about 50 people in different apartments around the county, is set to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration doesn’t expect to start awarding Continuum of Care money until May. It’s unclear how the lawsuits will affect that timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Ratner and other homeless service providers are trying to remain optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, we don’t know how long the litigation process will take, but we’re hopeful it leads to a more workable path forward,” Sacramento Steps Forward CEO Lisa Bates said in a statement. “Of course, any delay in federal funding would have real impacts on communities across the country, including ours, to operate shelters, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and essential system coordination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/12/homelessness-funding-lawsuits/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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