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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“CIF’s proposed pilot is a reasonable, respectful way to navigate a complex issue without compromising competitive fairness — a model worth pursuing,” Gardon said in a statement. “The governor is encouraged by this thoughtful approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s salvo on Tuesday marked his latest threat against a state or institution over its efforts to be more inclusive of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035999/with-trans-athletes-under-attack-what-does-fairness-look-like\">transgender athletes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/trump-administration-settles-maine-funding-freeze-dispute-trans-athlet-rcna204541\">Maine\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/minnesota-trump-transgender-athletes.html\">Minnesota\u003c/a>, in recent months, have successfully sued the administration to stop it from suspending federal education funding because of such policies. And in March, the White House \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333675/university-pennsylvania-upenn-trump-suspends-funding-trans-student-athletes\">announced it was freezing \u003c/a>$175 million of federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania — the president’s alma mater — over the school’s policies on transgender athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said states under attack from the administration need to hold the line on this and a host of other issues in what he called a larger fight against “fascism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What Trump is doing is illegal,” he said. “Trump is not the king. He doesn’t get to make up the law, and he does not have the authority to revoke this funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office in January, Trump has repeatedly targeted California over its policies aimed at protecting certain groups of marginalized young people, including transgender and undocumented students, whom the administration has disparaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how bullies operate, Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They demand things … and they tell you if you don’t do what they demand, they are going to take your lunch money,” he said. “So, at some point, as a state, you have to draw the line and say ‘No.’ That’s the response to bullies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sgonzalez\">\u003cem>Saul Gonzalez\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>San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032765/lgbtq-nonprofits-fear-targeted-attacks-sf-will-consider-easing-disclosure-rules\">easing financial reporting requirements\u003c/a> for city-funded nonprofits after some raised concerns that making such information public could put their staffers at risk of harassment, threats or attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requirements were initially meant to increase transparency around nonprofits’ expenses, leaving one government ethics expert worried that rolling back the disclosures could make the city more vulnerable to financial mismanagement — an issue that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004947/sf-mayor-breed-pushes-back-against-corruption-criticism-from-opponents\">plagued its departments and nonprofits\u003c/a> for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to approve the changes, which are intended to protect employees at nonprofits, particularly those who serve the LGBTQIA+ community and survivors of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the mood of the country changed and particularly queer organizations found themselves under increasing and often violent threat, folks approached me about amending [the] legislation to provide some protection for those organizations,” Board President Rafael Mandelman said when introducing the amendment to the Rules Committee in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2023 reporting protocol requires a list of the names of executive directors or employees with managerial responsibilities, as well as the names of the nonprofit’s board members or officers and any other boards they serve on. The changes passed Tuesday remove more than half of the information that’s required to be disclosed, expand how much data can be redacted and raise the funding threshold that requires a report at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230905-TheStudReopening-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230905-TheStudReopening-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230905-TheStudReopening-33-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230905-TheStudReopening-33-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230905-TheStudReopening-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230905-TheStudReopening-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230905-TheStudReopening-33-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks during a press conference to announce a new location of The Stud, a longtime LGBTQ+ venue, on Folsom Street in the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District in San Francisco on Sept. 5, 2023, after its closure at its former site in 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rocio Molina, the director of San Francisco’s Human Services Network, said people could be dissuaded from choosing to serve on boards at some nonprofits if it meant their personal information would be shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of them reflect the communities they serve, and they bring true value to the work and the information that our nonprofits are able to collect and put together,” Molina said. “Losing them can be a real loss to the sector.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sean McMorris, a program manager at the government transparency nonprofit Common Cause California, said not disclosing that data could compromise government accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand their concern; I just don’t know if how they’ve done this is the right way to go about addressing that concern because it appears to be addressing one problem by ignoring another, which is the public’s right to transparency,” he said.[aside postID=news_12033818 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Multiple city-funded nonprofits have been mired in scandal for misusing city funds or unfairly awarding grants to agencies with which they have personal ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF SAFE, which was tasked with many of the Police Department’s community-oriented initiatives, was disbanded last January over ethics concerns. Its leader, Kyra Worthy, was later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">arrested on fraud charges\u003c/a> over allegations that she misused $700,000 in city money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall, former Mayor London Breed’s trademark “Dream Keeper” initiative also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004687/mayor-breed-taps-new-sf-human-rights-director-as-misspending-scrutiny-intensifies\">came under fire\u003c/a> after reports that then-Human Rights Commission head Sheryl Davis awarded $1.5 million to the nonprofit Collective Impact, whose chief she shared a home with. Davis was also accused of frivolous company spending on a Martha’s Vineyard vacation rental for interns and overpaying another nonprofit, the Homeless Children’s Network, by $40,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMorris said that knowing who is leading the organizations that benefit from city funds is important information — for the press and voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to politicians’ family members and friends, he said that “boards of directors are often prominent people who have interest within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Reflection of a building in a window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall on Aug. 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whether they’re developers or lawyers or in the tech industry, they’re typically going to have [legislation] before the Board of Supervisors that affect their interest and their bottom line,” he said. “It’s really about accountability. There’s a lot of things that are legal and are forms of government but not necessarily appropriate or ethical. That’s where transparency comes in and allows us to hold our public officials accountable based on what they do, even if it’s legal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the state allows employees’ addresses and other contact information to be redacted when there is a viable threat, but he has concerns that the city’s ordinance is too broad, comparing its language on redactions to writing a “blank check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t say what the reasonable basis to believe that harm could occur would be, so it’s kind of an open-ended thing,” he told KQED. “I think an agency can say, ‘Well, we essentially have this concern,’ and frankly, why wouldn’t an agency say that, just to be safe?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended legislation also cuts the reporting of some other IRS documents and a program-by-program description of all funds expended or budgeted. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 100 LGBTQ+ rights activists and community members marched in Kentfield, the Marin County community where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> recently purchased a new home, on Monday as part of International Transgender Day of Visibility, which highlights discrimination faced by trans people worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are calling on state leaders to reaffirm their commitment to the transgender community following recent attacks from the Trump administration and Newsom. The governor split with fellow Democrats earlier this month, describing the party’s progressive politics as “toxic” and the participation of transgender athletes in female sports “deeply unfair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants held signs that read “Let Trans Kids Play” and “Do Better Newsom,” a reference to Newsom’s comments about the trans community on his new podcast. In a friendly interview with conservative talk show host Charlie Kirk in early March, Newsom appeared to agree with Kirk regarding the fairness of transgender athletes participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation frustrated state Democrats and LGBTQ advocacy groups who saw Newsom’s failure to push back as an acquiescence to conservative attacks on trans youth and athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, children and supporters march to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home in Kentfield in support of trans youth on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom “has been a huge ally and advocate for so many years,” said Sister Shalita Corndog, an activist with the nonprofit Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco’s famed drag troupe. “We are all just shocked and confused and devastated about what happened in his interview… wondering why he’s not more explicitly in favor of and supportive of people like us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> passed an executive order seeking to bar transgender athletes from women’s athletics. Several conservative states, including Florida and Texas, already prohibit trans students from participating in teams that align with their gender identity, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026189/transgender-athletes-face-new-hurdles-as-ncaa-adopts-stricter-policy-citing-trump-order\">the NCAA changed its participation policy\u003c/a> to align with Trump’s directives shortly after it was passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when we are seeing legislators attempt to undermine everything from marriage equality to the existence of trans people to LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace, we need our allies to step up and speak out,” the Human Rights Campaign said in a statement. “This is not a moment to sit politely in the face of authoritarian bullies or throw people under the bus for political posturing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033886\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in front of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home in Kentfield on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janna Barkin, an author and trans rights advocate who participated in Monday’s march, said Newsom has been at the forefront of the LGBTQ movement in California for decades, making his recent about-face even more disheartening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our local representatives, our California representatives, to stand strong and make public statements, press conferences and letters to constituents stating that they’re unwavering in their commitment to the trans community and transgender rights,” Barkin said.[aside postID=news_12033501 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-15_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, advocacy groups have worked with legislators to push for bills reaffirming the state’s support for the trans community, said Amy Wrena, an organizer with nonprofit Rainbow Families Action Group. Representatives such as state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) have introduced bills that would defend transgender workers from discrimination and protect trans access to health care, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We plan to celebrate and to show that trans people are here,” Barkin told KQED. “They’re beautiful parts of our community and we’re here to be joyful and celebratory and visible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The march to Newsom’s home ended in a dance party as Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way” and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” played. The demonstration ended peacefully after law enforcement arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dventon\">Danielle Venton\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But with Santana, I know I’m good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump to: Tips for finding gender-affirming haircuts and grooming\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Finishing Filimoehala’s hair with a spray of coconut oil, Vasquez gently brushed the remaining hair from his shoulders. “A lot of my clients, I feel like they’re my family, to be honest,” Vasquez said. “They sit in my chair, and we talk about what’s going on with them in their day-to-day. I’m not going to stay quiet through the whole haircut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Vasquez, his barber chair is a safe space for queer people — especially for transgender men like him, who’ve felt anxious or uncomfortable getting their haircut at other barbershops. Earlier in March, he published \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/twinks415/\">a flyer on his Instagram page\u003c/a> offering free haircuts all month long to trans men. Within a week, the post had already been shared hundreds of times, with dozens of people commenting messages of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033467\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santana ‘Twinks’ Vasquez cuts Angel Filimoehala’s hair at Steel and Strand barbershop in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to open this up for younger trans men that are facing homelessness, that are in the shelter, that don’t have the resources to be able to afford a haircut in San Francisco because prices are super high,” he said, adding that since he published the flyer, people from all over the country — and even abroad — have reached out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly did not expect the flyer to reach so many people,” he admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Kind of like community work’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Vasquez, who grew up in the Mission District, it wasn’t always easy to find a place he felt good getting a haircut himself. Beauty salons often weren’t the best option for finding the styles he wanted. Meanwhile, barber shops were usually spaces taken up by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/14/nyregion/art-a-meditation-on-masculinity-wrapped-up-in-a-barbershop.html\">cisgender Latino men\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Damn, you feel like Tupac — ‘all eyes on me,’” he laughed. “It’s scary to walk in such a male-dominated area … you feel that testosterone walking in and everybody’s looking at you, sizing you up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, “they might misgender you,” Vasquez said. “They probably don’t know what [wording] to use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teen, Vasquez would occasionally cut family members’ hair, but it was after he lost a close friend in 2017 that he decided to formally train as a barber. He wanted to become what he never saw growing up: a trans barber of color serving other trans people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033469\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33.jpg\" alt=\"A transgender client at a barber shop gets a beard trim, closeup.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santana ‘Twinks’ Vasquez cuts Angel Filimoehala’s beard at Steel and Strand barbershop in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. Twinks has been offering free haircuts for the month of March to honor trans visibility. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is your appearance — this is what will make you feel comfortable in your body,” he said. “This haircut can be a haircut for a job interview that you’re trying to get … It can be what helps you get out of the shelter if you’re experiencing homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Vasquez was heavily involved in youth intervention programs like \u003ca href=\"https://mncsf.org/mission-girls-2/\">Mission Girls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://mncsf.org/precita-valley-community-center-and-family-resource-center/\">Precita Valley Community Center\u003c/a>. “Doing a lot of community work and coming from the juvenile system helped me shift and form how I am now,” he explained. “I feel like cutting hair is still kind of like community work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Find each other and stick together’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By offering free haircuts, Vasquez has met dozens of transgender men living all over the Bay Area and other parts of California. They’ve shared their personal situations and asked to hear about his own experience transitioning. From his barber chair, he’s been able to form a network of support, where he connects transgender men seeking friends and community with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filimoehala is one of these men. “For a really long time, especially with my own transition, I felt really alone,” he said. As someone of mixed Pacific Islander and Latino descent, he said he’s always found it rare to meet another trans person who shared his background and traditions. But he’s met several people through Vasquez, which prompted him to form the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pasifikatransmen_network/\">Pasifika Trans Men Network\u003c/a>, a group for trans masc and trans men in the Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a big need for us to find each other and stick together because we don’t really know what the next steps are in terms of what the federal government\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029428/how-californians-can-start-changing-names-and-gender-markers-on-government-ids\"> is going to do\u003c/a>,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033470\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35.jpg\" alt=\"A transgender client at a barber shop gets ready for a haircut with a barber preparing for work.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Filimoehala checks out his new haircut at Steel and Strand barbershop in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past few months, President Donald \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/6-ways-trumps-executive-orders-are-targeting-transgender-people\">Trump’s administration has targeted \u003c/a>the needs and rights of transgender and nonbinary people nationwide. On his first day back in the White House, Trump signed an\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\"> executive order\u003c/a> that declares the federal government will only “recognize two sexes, male and female,” and has threatened to cut funding for universities and hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans minors. The Department of Education has also launched investigations into universities that allow transgender athletes to compete with the team that matches their gender identity — including\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025974/federal-officials-investigate-san-jose-state-under-trumps-order-trans-athletes\"> San José State University\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying really hard\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032067/here-are-all-the-ways-people-are-disappearing-from-government-websites\"> to erase us\u003c/a>,” Filimoehala said. “To me, that’s crazy because I feel there’s more problems in our country than us being trans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Vasquez is still getting messages from folks looking for a free haircut. While he also has to make time for paying customers, he’s now looking at ways he can further extend his services for free in the future. “Money can’t buy community. Money can’t buy real connections with your people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about getting to know other black and brown trans men and building community in my chair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santana ‘Twinks’ Vasquez poses for a photo at Steel and Strand barbershop in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Tips from Vasquez on finding gender-affirming haircuts and grooming\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do some research…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before going to a barbershop, Vasquez recommended you spend some time on social media looking for the haircut style you want to go for. It’s helpful to know different terms like a fade or taper haircut, he said, but also …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don’t be afraid to lean on your barber, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to a barber and are upfront about what you want, but you don’t know how to describe it … your barber will understand and probably think: ‘Let me give them grace, because at least they’re coming in and they’re trying,’” Vasquez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be upfront about what you want to keep (or lose)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re first growing out your beard, it comes out like peach fuzz,” said Vasquez. “Tell your barber or hairdresser, ‘Hey, I’m trying to keep this on the side. Please don’t cut it off.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Be upfront because, as barbers, we don’t know if you’re letting it grow out because it’s been a long time since you got a haircut,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump to: Tips for finding gender-affirming haircuts and grooming\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Finishing Filimoehala’s hair with a spray of coconut oil, Vasquez gently brushed the remaining hair from his shoulders. “A lot of my clients, I feel like they’re my family, to be honest,” Vasquez said. “They sit in my chair, and we talk about what’s going on with them in their day-to-day. I’m not going to stay quiet through the whole haircut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Vasquez, his barber chair is a safe space for queer people — especially for transgender men like him, who’ve felt anxious or uncomfortable getting their haircut at other barbershops. Earlier in March, he published \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/twinks415/\">a flyer on his Instagram page\u003c/a> offering free haircuts all month long to trans men. Within a week, the post had already been shared hundreds of times, with dozens of people commenting messages of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033467\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santana ‘Twinks’ Vasquez cuts Angel Filimoehala’s hair at Steel and Strand barbershop in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to open this up for younger trans men that are facing homelessness, that are in the shelter, that don’t have the resources to be able to afford a haircut in San Francisco because prices are super high,” he said, adding that since he published the flyer, people from all over the country — and even abroad — have reached out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly did not expect the flyer to reach so many people,” he admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Kind of like community work’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Vasquez, who grew up in the Mission District, it wasn’t always easy to find a place he felt good getting a haircut himself. Beauty salons often weren’t the best option for finding the styles he wanted. Meanwhile, barber shops were usually spaces taken up by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/14/nyregion/art-a-meditation-on-masculinity-wrapped-up-in-a-barbershop.html\">cisgender Latino men\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Damn, you feel like Tupac — ‘all eyes on me,’” he laughed. “It’s scary to walk in such a male-dominated area … you feel that testosterone walking in and everybody’s looking at you, sizing you up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, “they might misgender you,” Vasquez said. “They probably don’t know what [wording] to use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teen, Vasquez would occasionally cut family members’ hair, but it was after he lost a close friend in 2017 that he decided to formally train as a barber. He wanted to become what he never saw growing up: a trans barber of color serving other trans people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033469\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33.jpg\" alt=\"A transgender client at a barber shop gets a beard trim, closeup.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-33-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santana ‘Twinks’ Vasquez cuts Angel Filimoehala’s beard at Steel and Strand barbershop in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. Twinks has been offering free haircuts for the month of March to honor trans visibility. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is your appearance — this is what will make you feel comfortable in your body,” he said. “This haircut can be a haircut for a job interview that you’re trying to get … It can be what helps you get out of the shelter if you’re experiencing homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Vasquez was heavily involved in youth intervention programs like \u003ca href=\"https://mncsf.org/mission-girls-2/\">Mission Girls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://mncsf.org/precita-valley-community-center-and-family-resource-center/\">Precita Valley Community Center\u003c/a>. “Doing a lot of community work and coming from the juvenile system helped me shift and form how I am now,” he explained. “I feel like cutting hair is still kind of like community work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Find each other and stick together’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By offering free haircuts, Vasquez has met dozens of transgender men living all over the Bay Area and other parts of California. They’ve shared their personal situations and asked to hear about his own experience transitioning. From his barber chair, he’s been able to form a network of support, where he connects transgender men seeking friends and community with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filimoehala is one of these men. “For a really long time, especially with my own transition, I felt really alone,” he said. As someone of mixed Pacific Islander and Latino descent, he said he’s always found it rare to meet another trans person who shared his background and traditions. But he’s met several people through Vasquez, which prompted him to form the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pasifikatransmen_network/\">Pasifika Trans Men Network\u003c/a>, a group for trans masc and trans men in the Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a big need for us to find each other and stick together because we don’t really know what the next steps are in terms of what the federal government\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029428/how-californians-can-start-changing-names-and-gender-markers-on-government-ids\"> is going to do\u003c/a>,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033470\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35.jpg\" alt=\"A transgender client at a barber shop gets ready for a haircut with a barber preparing for work.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-35-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Filimoehala checks out his new haircut at Steel and Strand barbershop in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past few months, President Donald \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/6-ways-trumps-executive-orders-are-targeting-transgender-people\">Trump’s administration has targeted \u003c/a>the needs and rights of transgender and nonbinary people nationwide. On his first day back in the White House, Trump signed an\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\"> executive order\u003c/a> that declares the federal government will only “recognize two sexes, male and female,” and has threatened to cut funding for universities and hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans minors. The Department of Education has also launched investigations into universities that allow transgender athletes to compete with the team that matches their gender identity — including\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025974/federal-officials-investigate-san-jose-state-under-trumps-order-trans-athletes\"> San José State University\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying really hard\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032067/here-are-all-the-ways-people-are-disappearing-from-government-websites\"> to erase us\u003c/a>,” Filimoehala said. “To me, that’s crazy because I feel there’s more problems in our country than us being trans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Vasquez is still getting messages from folks looking for a free haircut. While he also has to make time for paying customers, he’s now looking at ways he can further extend his services for free in the future. “Money can’t buy community. Money can’t buy real connections with your people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about getting to know other black and brown trans men and building community in my chair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santana ‘Twinks’ Vasquez poses for a photo at Steel and Strand barbershop in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Tips from Vasquez on finding gender-affirming haircuts and grooming\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do some research…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before going to a barbershop, Vasquez recommended you spend some time on social media looking for the haircut style you want to go for. It’s helpful to know different terms like a fade or taper haircut, he said, but also …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don’t be afraid to lean on your barber, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to a barber and are upfront about what you want, but you don’t know how to describe it … your barber will understand and probably think: ‘Let me give them grace, because at least they’re coming in and they’re trying,’” Vasquez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be upfront about what you want to keep (or lose)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re first growing out your beard, it comes out like peach fuzz,” said Vasquez. “Tell your barber or hairdresser, ‘Hey, I’m trying to keep this on the side. Please don’t cut it off.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Be upfront because, as barbers, we don’t know if you’re letting it grow out because it’s been a long time since you got a haircut,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexis Jimenez said a stalker came to her house and knocked on her door years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It was] kind of scary,” she recalled. “After that incident, I thought about scenarios of what could have happened and whether or not I’m prepared to defend myself in those situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez, who had taken a few years of taekwondo, wanted to gain new skills, so she registered for free self-defense training offered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901451/the-worlds-first-transgender-district-creates-a-support-system-in-san-francisco\">the Transgender District\u003c/a>, a nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood founded by and for trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolina Osoria, program associate with the Transgender District, helped launch the inaugural training with support from the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--city-administrator--office-transgender-initiatives\">Office of Transgender Initiatives and\u003c/a> the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">LYRIC SF. \u003c/a>She said the goal of the class is to empower trans people during the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trans people are really resilient,” she said. “I hope that’s a facet we’re able to feed into because there’s a lot that’s trying to diminish us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1370\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1920x1315.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Osoria, program associate at The Transgender District, poses for a portrait at the office in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders targeting the gender-expansive community, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292390/trump-transgender-gender-affirming-care-hospital\">defunding gender-affirming medical care\u003c/a> for transgender youth and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023321/trumps-binary-gender-mandate-leaves-trans-californians-facing-mounting-risks\">banning trans, intersex, and nonbinary people from using the X gender marker on their passports\u003c/a>. There are legal challenges to these efforts, but Osoria said the federal actions have had an impact already, creating a climate of fear even in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">transgender sanctuary city\u003c/a> like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, it just feels a little bit worse,” she added. “The landscape he’s creating is very much rooted in violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that trans women of color disproportionately bear the brunt of violence. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8173924/\">2021 study, \u003c/a>more than half of the physically violent crimes reported by trans women in the Bay Area were committed against Black and Latina trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029632 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training instructor Joseph Bautista, center, demonstrates how to do a move to Skyler, left, and Moss O’Neal, right, during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s why Osoria said it’s important the self-defense class take place in the Tenderloin, where the majority of the neighborhood’s trans population is Black trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to help Black trans women … feel empowered and we are able to guide them through resistance, we’ll be helping all folks,” she said.[aside postID=news_12029428 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The self-defense training, held in February at the Transgender District office on Market Street, drew around a dozen participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martial arts instructor Joseph Bautista of \u003ca href=\"https://www.selfdefenseforthepeople.com/\">Self Defense for the People\u003c/a> ran partnered drills and gave lessons that touched on how to be aware of one’s surroundings, how to verbally de-escalate a situation, and, if things get physical, how to safely slap and push away attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, you never have to use [it], but like insurance, it’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” Bautista told the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants ran through scenarios, like practicing how to escape from being choked and how to use a ballpoint pen as a weapon. But people were also having fun. Laughter and squeals echoed through the room as people cheered on their partners to push harder, slap swiftly and repeat moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was really good. I had a lot more fun interactions than I was expecting,” said Moss O’Neal, who was flushed and smiling after the two-hour training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029633 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor Joseph Bautista, left, demonstrates a move with Cherry Javier, right, during self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Neal said he was interested in the class because he has been in situations where he wished he had known how to defend himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Now] I feel a lot more confident about walking home,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal also came hoping to find more queer community. After the training, he and some participants stuck around to hang out and eat pizza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spots for the self-defense class sold out just days after it was announced, so the Transgender District said it \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">plans to organize another training soon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With everything going on, folks have kind of felt jolted and afraid,” Osoria said. “And the remedy to fear is being in power with other folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029631\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel Motosua, left, and Kai Rendon, right, practice moves during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">\u003c/a>Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Organizations offering regular or occasional self-defense classes that are inclusive of, or specifically geared toward, LGBTQ+ communities in the Bay Area include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">The Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.impactbayarea.org/lgbtq_course\">Impact Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://misfitcombat.com/program-queercombat/\">Misfit Combat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/transfighters/\">Trans Fighters\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fourelementsfitness.com/\">Four Elements Fitness\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolina Osoria, program associate with the Transgender District, helped launch the inaugural training with support from the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--city-administrator--office-transgender-initiatives\">Office of Transgender Initiatives and\u003c/a> the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">LYRIC SF. \u003c/a>She said the goal of the class is to empower trans people during the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trans people are really resilient,” she said. “I hope that’s a facet we’re able to feed into because there’s a lot that’s trying to diminish us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1370\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1920x1315.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Osoria, program associate at The Transgender District, poses for a portrait at the office in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders targeting the gender-expansive community, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292390/trump-transgender-gender-affirming-care-hospital\">defunding gender-affirming medical care\u003c/a> for transgender youth and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023321/trumps-binary-gender-mandate-leaves-trans-californians-facing-mounting-risks\">banning trans, intersex, and nonbinary people from using the X gender marker on their passports\u003c/a>. There are legal challenges to these efforts, but Osoria said the federal actions have had an impact already, creating a climate of fear even in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">transgender sanctuary city\u003c/a> like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, it just feels a little bit worse,” she added. “The landscape he’s creating is very much rooted in violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that trans women of color disproportionately bear the brunt of violence. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8173924/\">2021 study, \u003c/a>more than half of the physically violent crimes reported by trans women in the Bay Area were committed against Black and Latina trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029632 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training instructor Joseph Bautista, center, demonstrates how to do a move to Skyler, left, and Moss O’Neal, right, during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s why Osoria said it’s important the self-defense class take place in the Tenderloin, where the majority of the neighborhood’s trans population is Black trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to help Black trans women … feel empowered and we are able to guide them through resistance, we’ll be helping all folks,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The self-defense training, held in February at the Transgender District office on Market Street, drew around a dozen participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martial arts instructor Joseph Bautista of \u003ca href=\"https://www.selfdefenseforthepeople.com/\">Self Defense for the People\u003c/a> ran partnered drills and gave lessons that touched on how to be aware of one’s surroundings, how to verbally de-escalate a situation, and, if things get physical, how to safely slap and push away attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, you never have to use [it], but like insurance, it’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” Bautista told the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants ran through scenarios, like practicing how to escape from being choked and how to use a ballpoint pen as a weapon. But people were also having fun. Laughter and squeals echoed through the room as people cheered on their partners to push harder, slap swiftly and repeat moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was really good. I had a lot more fun interactions than I was expecting,” said Moss O’Neal, who was flushed and smiling after the two-hour training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029633 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor Joseph Bautista, left, demonstrates a move with Cherry Javier, right, during self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Neal said he was interested in the class because he has been in situations where he wished he had known how to defend himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Now] I feel a lot more confident about walking home,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal also came hoping to find more queer community. After the training, he and some participants stuck around to hang out and eat pizza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spots for the self-defense class sold out just days after it was announced, so the Transgender District said it \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">plans to organize another training soon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With everything going on, folks have kind of felt jolted and afraid,” Osoria said. “And the remedy to fear is being in power with other folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029631\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel Motosua, left, and Kai Rendon, right, practice moves during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">\u003c/a>Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Organizations offering regular or occasional self-defense classes that are inclusive of, or specifically geared toward, LGBTQ+ communities in the Bay Area include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">The Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.impactbayarea.org/lgbtq_course\">Impact Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://misfitcombat.com/program-queercombat/\">Misfit Combat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/transfighters/\">Trans Fighters\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fourelementsfitness.com/\">Four Elements Fitness\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>People applying for grants and certificates using the Small Business Administration’s website used to see a photograph of a group of people of varying ages, genders, and skin tones smiling in front of a white board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-February, the SBA removed the image from its website, documents shared with NPR show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2385\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337.jpg 2385w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-800x221.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-1020x282.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-1536x425.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-2048x567.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ImagesAB-scaled-e1742416143337-1920x531.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2385px) 100vw, 2385px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person with knowledge of the SBA’s website update said the minor task of removing the photo was strangely urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone says stop everything, do this specifically … it’s reserved for just instances where there’s like a system failure” said the person, who requested anonymity to share internal documentation fearing reprisal. “To have an immediate deployment of … a visual change is very, very uncommon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SBA did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the federal government, agencies have been busy scrubbing photographic and written references about women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community from their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In at least one instance, NPR’s reporting shows that the Department of Veterans Affairs is aware that removing categories of people from the agency’s website can affect the delivery of the services it provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies say the removals are to comply with President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/\">executive\u003c/a> orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/\">removing\u003c/a> “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies.” The removals aren’t universal, and sometimes pages are restored as agencies figure out what compliance means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender and non-binary people, on the other hand, are explicitly targeted by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">separate executive order\u003c/a> and faced the most consistent removal from government websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historians warn that this kind of systematic erasure has in the past come when governments strip rights from people, starting from the most marginalized groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you erase the memory, we really forget the people,” said Alessio Ponzio, whose research focuses on LGBTQ history and women’s studies and is a visiting professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. “It’s an act of violence that is very subtle but can really destroy the psychology of people. Basically, ‘I’m telling you that I do not recognize you.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Women,’ ‘girls,’ people of color\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant children, children with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQ+” were removed from a 2022 letter from the Biden administration to governors about supporting school-based health services in late January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032085\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1818\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756.jpg 1818w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-800x304.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-1020x387.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-160x61.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-1536x583.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1818px) 100vw, 1818px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department instructed its staff to not mention a list of terms and phrases including “women” and “girls” when trying to attract international students to come to study in the US, though the agency later rescinded the direction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5316196/state-dept-staffers-get-mixed-messages-on-how-to-serve-international-students\">NPR reported\u003c/a> recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1775\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470.jpg 1775w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-800x338.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-1020x431.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-160x68.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-1536x649.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1775px) 100vw, 1775px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Defense Department issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4079501/pentagon-releases-digital-content-refresh-memorandum/\">Feb. 26 memo\u003c/a> instructing the military to remove digital content that “focus on immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity or sex” by early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arlington National Cemetery \u003ca href=\"https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/us-army-deletes-lesson-plans-focusing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removed its education programs\u003c/a> about the history of women and people of color in the armed services though some biographies remain available on its site. The Army and the Navy removed web pages about the history of women in the military and \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250304210520/https://www.army.mil/asianpacificamericans/442.html\">ones\u003c/a> about a decorated Japanese-American Army unit and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii\">pages\u003c/a> about Navajo Code Talkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A page celebrating the military service of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who integrated major league baseball, has also been taken down. The Air Force took down, among other pages, a \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250304141713/https://www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1984981/making-history-ten-women-make-up-elite-small-cadre-of-b-2-pilots/\">2019 profile\u003c/a> of the 10 women who piloted one specific stealth bomber that carried out important missions. The archived profile shows that at that point, the 10 women made up about 2% of all the pilots who flew the aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the pages about the Japanese-American unit and the Code Talkers have since been restored after their removal received attention and media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pentagon marked tens of thousands photographs for removal, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074\">Associated Press\u003c/a> reported. Some were of war heroes, many photos feature women and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1165\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323.jpg 1165w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-800x463.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1165px) 100vw, 1165px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-800x446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-1020x569.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-160x89.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration has hung a sign outside the armed forces saying if you’re not a white male, you are no longer welcome,” said Sue Fulton, senior advisor to advocacy group SPARTA Pride and formerly an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s a tragedy because it’s going to make our military weaker,” says Fulton. “It’s not just about getting rid of trans people and gay people and women and black folks. It’s about getting rid of leaders. It’s about disrupting units, taking people out of those units who are fully trained and fully qualified and replacing them with who? People who pass Trump’s ideological test?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespersons from the military branches say they’re complying with the memo and executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Navy continues to execute and implement all directives issued by the President with professionalism, efficiency, and in full alignment with national security,” said Navy spokesperson, Lieutenant Commander Lauren Chatmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social media posts were removed, archived, or changed to avoid noncompliance with executive orders,” said Army spokesperson Major Travis Shaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Force did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agencies respond differently to Trump orders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s no comprehensive analysis on how much content each agency has removed, each agency seems to be going about it their own way. NASA asked its staff to scrub “anything specifically targeting women” off of its website in late January, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-order/\">404 Media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the directive, some articles featuring women went dark, including one about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/\">Rose Ferreira\u003c/a>, who was born in the Dominican Republic and was featured when she was an intern at NASA. The incident prompted \u003ca href=\"https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-attacks-on-science\">a public outcry\u003c/a>, and Ferreira’s page, along with some others, were restored. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/\">Internet Archive records\u003c/a>, her profile went dark at least on Feb. 7 before it went back up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ferreira said the restoration of the feature invited more harassment. “I started getting messages from people, who I guess were late to the conversation, calling me a liar, or saying that I was attacking NASA and that I was trying to cause drama,” she told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferreira said that she was proud when NASA profiled her – but she now resents how her story was subject to the whims of a changed administration. “I didn’t ask for it [the feature]. You didn’t give it to me. I earned it … If it’s so easily removable, then what was the point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, NASA said the agency is “looking at content that was previously removed out of an abundance of caution and restoring content as appropriate,” as it complies with executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historical articles on agency websites have also been edited as a result of the executive orders. The National Park Service removed references to transgender people from an article by historian Wendy Rouse titled “The Very Queer History of the Suffragist Movement” as part of the agency’s commemoration of the movement. When Rouse requested that the original version of her article be restored, the Park Service took it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1758\" height=\"1186\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426.jpg 1758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-1536x1036.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1758px) 100vw, 1758px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we initially attempted to edit your article in an attempt to keep the rest of the content active, we have since removed it so as not to alter your work,” the agency wrote to Rouse, in an email Rouse shared with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, DC in a 2024 file photo. \u003ccite>(Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transgender people are the biggest targets\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rolling back societal recognition of transgender people was a key part of President Trump’s campaign platform that was quickly expressed as a series of executive orders after he took office. Many agencies have removed references to transgender people, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01/31/cdc-website-gender-lgbtq-data/\">Centers for Disease Control\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318767/nps-lgbtq-transgender-history\">National Park Service\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/government-agencies-scrub-lgbtq-web-pages-remove-info-trans-intersex-p-rcna190519\"> the State Department\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/trumps-administration-is-taking-down-sites-about-gender-identity-all-over-the-internet/\">Social Security Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1762\" height=\"1506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261.jpg 1762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-800x684.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-1020x872.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-1536x1313.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1762px) 100vw, 1762px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health and Human Services effort to remove references to transgender people from its websites, including the CDC’s, was halted by a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293387/judge-orders-cdc-fda-hhs-websites-restored\"> court order\u003c/a>. The removal of transgender people from the Park Service’s website introducing the Stonewall monument has led to protests at the monument itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s actions targeting transgender people follow a drumbeat of misleading content about transgender people spread by far-right activists in recent years. Those narratives focused on unsubstantiated threats of sex crime, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1253921751/introducing-tested-from-npr-and-cbc\">concerns about fairness in women’s sports\u003c/a> and healthcare for minors with gender dysphoria diagnoses, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119634878/childrens-hospitals-are-the-latest-target-of-anti-lgbtq-harassment\">conservative influencers\u003c/a> used transgender issues to garner money, fame and support for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time transgender people became a target of governments, historians say. They were one of the groups that were persecuted early alongside suspected communists and Jews by Nazi Germany, said Laurie Marhoefer, a specialist on the history of Weimar and Nazi Germany at the University of Washington who also studies transgender and queer history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people are the canary in the coal mine of democracy,” said Marhoefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are instances in which these efforts could have serious consequences for people the government is supposed to serve. The Department of Veterans Affairs’ suicide prevention strategy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25558024-1160-07-d-2021-05-24/\">mandates (DOC)\u003c/a> community outreach to veterans vulnerable to suicide, including transgender veterans, whom the department now declines to name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s own \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774495\">research\u003c/a> shows that LGBTQ veterans are more likely than the average veteran to take their own lives, and \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33544021/\">transgender veterans\u003c/a> even more so. Veterans already have a higher average suicide rate than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an internal memo that NPR obtained dated Feb. 20, the Department of Veterans Affairs proposed editing all external communication, which includes its website, to remove the term “gender” and only use “sex,” as well as taking out the letter “T” from the term “LGBTQ+ Care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo also included an analysis of risks of the proposals, which includes “potential to impact Veteran access to care of Veteran perception of welcome at HVA facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the department says it will \u003ca href=\"https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-to-phase-out-treatment-for-gender-dysphoria/\">deny gender-affirming\u003c/a> treatment to new patients altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin and Greg Myre contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have a tip? NPR’s Huo Jingnan can be contacted through encrypted communications at _J_H.07 on Signal.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the federal government, agencies have been busy scrubbing photographic and written references about women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community from their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In at least one instance, NPR’s reporting shows that the Department of Veterans Affairs is aware that removing categories of people from the agency’s website can affect the delivery of the services it provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies say the removals are to comply with President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/\">executive\u003c/a> orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/\">removing\u003c/a> “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies.” The removals aren’t universal, and sometimes pages are restored as agencies figure out what compliance means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender and non-binary people, on the other hand, are explicitly targeted by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">separate executive order\u003c/a> and faced the most consistent removal from government websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historians warn that this kind of systematic erasure has in the past come when governments strip rights from people, starting from the most marginalized groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you erase the memory, we really forget the people,” said Alessio Ponzio, whose research focuses on LGBTQ history and women’s studies and is a visiting professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. “It’s an act of violence that is very subtle but can really destroy the psychology of people. Basically, ‘I’m telling you that I do not recognize you.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Women,’ ‘girls,’ people of color\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant children, children with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQ+” were removed from a 2022 letter from the Biden administration to governors about supporting school-based health services in late January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032085\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1818\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756.jpg 1818w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-800x304.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-1020x387.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-160x61.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image1-scaled-e1742416258756-1536x583.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1818px) 100vw, 1818px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department instructed its staff to not mention a list of terms and phrases including “women” and “girls” when trying to attract international students to come to study in the US, though the agency later rescinded the direction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5316196/state-dept-staffers-get-mixed-messages-on-how-to-serve-international-students\">NPR reported\u003c/a> recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1775\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470.jpg 1775w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-800x338.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-1020x431.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-160x68.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image2-scaled-e1742416392470-1536x649.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1775px) 100vw, 1775px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Defense Department issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4079501/pentagon-releases-digital-content-refresh-memorandum/\">Feb. 26 memo\u003c/a> instructing the military to remove digital content that “focus on immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity or sex” by early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arlington National Cemetery \u003ca href=\"https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/us-army-deletes-lesson-plans-focusing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removed its education programs\u003c/a> about the history of women and people of color in the armed services though some biographies remain available on its site. The Army and the Navy removed web pages about the history of women in the military and \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250304210520/https://www.army.mil/asianpacificamericans/442.html\">ones\u003c/a> about a decorated Japanese-American Army unit and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii\">pages\u003c/a> about Navajo Code Talkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A page celebrating the military service of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who integrated major league baseball, has also been taken down. The Air Force took down, among other pages, a \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250304141713/https://www.whiteman.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1984981/making-history-ten-women-make-up-elite-small-cadre-of-b-2-pilots/\">2019 profile\u003c/a> of the 10 women who piloted one specific stealth bomber that carried out important missions. The archived profile shows that at that point, the 10 women made up about 2% of all the pilots who flew the aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the pages about the Japanese-American unit and the Code Talkers have since been restored after their removal received attention and media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pentagon marked tens of thousands photographs for removal, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074\">Associated Press\u003c/a> reported. Some were of war heroes, many photos feature women and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1165\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323.jpg 1165w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-800x463.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-scaled-e1742416491323-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1165px) 100vw, 1165px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-800x446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-1020x569.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-1-scaled-e1742416547406-160x89.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image345-2-scaled-e1742416608425-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration has hung a sign outside the armed forces saying if you’re not a white male, you are no longer welcome,” said Sue Fulton, senior advisor to advocacy group SPARTA Pride and formerly an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s a tragedy because it’s going to make our military weaker,” says Fulton. “It’s not just about getting rid of trans people and gay people and women and black folks. It’s about getting rid of leaders. It’s about disrupting units, taking people out of those units who are fully trained and fully qualified and replacing them with who? People who pass Trump’s ideological test?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespersons from the military branches say they’re complying with the memo and executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Navy continues to execute and implement all directives issued by the President with professionalism, efficiency, and in full alignment with national security,” said Navy spokesperson, Lieutenant Commander Lauren Chatmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social media posts were removed, archived, or changed to avoid noncompliance with executive orders,” said Army spokesperson Major Travis Shaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Force did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agencies respond differently to Trump orders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s no comprehensive analysis on how much content each agency has removed, each agency seems to be going about it their own way. NASA asked its staff to scrub “anything specifically targeting women” off of its website in late January, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-order/\">404 Media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the directive, some articles featuring women went dark, including one about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/\">Rose Ferreira\u003c/a>, who was born in the Dominican Republic and was featured when she was an intern at NASA. The incident prompted \u003ca href=\"https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-attacks-on-science\">a public outcry\u003c/a>, and Ferreira’s page, along with some others, were restored. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/\">Internet Archive records\u003c/a>, her profile went dark at least on Feb. 7 before it went back up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ferreira said the restoration of the feature invited more harassment. “I started getting messages from people, who I guess were late to the conversation, calling me a liar, or saying that I was attacking NASA and that I was trying to cause drama,” she told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferreira said that she was proud when NASA profiled her – but she now resents how her story was subject to the whims of a changed administration. “I didn’t ask for it [the feature]. You didn’t give it to me. I earned it … If it’s so easily removable, then what was the point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, NASA said the agency is “looking at content that was previously removed out of an abundance of caution and restoring content as appropriate,” as it complies with executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historical articles on agency websites have also been edited as a result of the executive orders. The National Park Service removed references to transgender people from an article by historian Wendy Rouse titled “The Very Queer History of the Suffragist Movement” as part of the agency’s commemoration of the movement. When Rouse requested that the original version of her article be restored, the Park Service took it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1758\" height=\"1186\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426.jpg 1758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image6-scaled-e1742416710426-1536x1036.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1758px) 100vw, 1758px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we initially attempted to edit your article in an attempt to keep the rest of the content active, we have since removed it so as not to alter your work,” the agency wrote to Rouse, in an email Rouse shared with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, DC in a 2024 file photo. \u003ccite>(Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transgender people are the biggest targets\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rolling back societal recognition of transgender people was a key part of President Trump’s campaign platform that was quickly expressed as a series of executive orders after he took office. Many agencies have removed references to transgender people, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01/31/cdc-website-gender-lgbtq-data/\">Centers for Disease Control\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318767/nps-lgbtq-transgender-history\">National Park Service\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/government-agencies-scrub-lgbtq-web-pages-remove-info-trans-intersex-p-rcna190519\"> the State Department\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/trumps-administration-is-taking-down-sites-about-gender-identity-all-over-the-internet/\">Social Security Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12032095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1762\" height=\"1506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261.jpg 1762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-800x684.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-1020x872.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Image7-scaled-e1742416837261-1536x1313.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1762px) 100vw, 1762px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health and Human Services effort to remove references to transgender people from its websites, including the CDC’s, was halted by a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293387/judge-orders-cdc-fda-hhs-websites-restored\"> court order\u003c/a>. The removal of transgender people from the Park Service’s website introducing the Stonewall monument has led to protests at the monument itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s actions targeting transgender people follow a drumbeat of misleading content about transgender people spread by far-right activists in recent years. Those narratives focused on unsubstantiated threats of sex crime, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1253921751/introducing-tested-from-npr-and-cbc\">concerns about fairness in women’s sports\u003c/a> and healthcare for minors with gender dysphoria diagnoses, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119634878/childrens-hospitals-are-the-latest-target-of-anti-lgbtq-harassment\">conservative influencers\u003c/a> used transgender issues to garner money, fame and support for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time transgender people became a target of governments, historians say. They were one of the groups that were persecuted early alongside suspected communists and Jews by Nazi Germany, said Laurie Marhoefer, a specialist on the history of Weimar and Nazi Germany at the University of Washington who also studies transgender and queer history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people are the canary in the coal mine of democracy,” said Marhoefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are instances in which these efforts could have serious consequences for people the government is supposed to serve. The Department of Veterans Affairs’ suicide prevention strategy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25558024-1160-07-d-2021-05-24/\">mandates (DOC)\u003c/a> community outreach to veterans vulnerable to suicide, including transgender veterans, whom the department now declines to name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s own \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774495\">research\u003c/a> shows that LGBTQ veterans are more likely than the average veteran to take their own lives, and \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33544021/\">transgender veterans\u003c/a> even more so. Veterans already have a higher average suicide rate than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an internal memo that NPR obtained dated Feb. 20, the Department of Veterans Affairs proposed editing all external communication, which includes its website, to remove the term “gender” and only use “sex,” as well as taking out the letter “T” from the term “LGBTQ+ Care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo also included an analysis of risks of the proposals, which includes “potential to impact Veteran access to care of Veteran perception of welcome at HVA facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the department says it will \u003ca href=\"https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-to-phase-out-treatment-for-gender-dysphoria/\">deny gender-affirming\u003c/a> treatment to new patients altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin and Greg Myre contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have a tip? NPR’s Huo Jingnan can be contacted through encrypted communications at _J_H.07 on Signal.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-pride\">San Francisco Pride\u003c/a> organizers face a challenging task: raising $3.2 million to cover the total costs of labor, security, insurance and permits required to produce the two-day festival and parade set for June 28–29. However, reaching that goal has become harder as several corporate sponsors have pulled their financial support, SF Pride executive director Suzanne Ford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected [funding] to increase this year and then the whole world changed on us,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comcast, along with beverage companies Anheuser-Busch and Diageo, were multi-year sponsors but are not supporting this year’s celebration. The news comes after SF Pride \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/san-francisco-pride-2025-meta-excluded-20202757.php\">announced that its relationship with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, had ended\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world’s changed politically, and the environment for sponsorship has changed dramatically,” she said. “And I think these companies have determined that it’s not a good investment in Pride this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, SF Pride has faced financial challenges as production costs rise each year. Both the parade and festival are free to attend, making the event, as currently designed, dependent on corporate sponsorships. 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"content": "\u003cp>A spate of recent policy decisions by the Trump administration targeting transgender youth has led to an escalating mental health crisis among an already vulnerable population, experts and advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in California, where top state leaders have championed policies to protect transgender people, nonprofit leaders and case workers say they are seeing sharp increases in depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal thoughts among the young people they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Kids and families are scared to death. It’s like they’re terrorized, that’s what it feels like,” said Jill Jacobs, chief executive officer of the Bay Area-based Family Builders, which works with young people in the child welfare system, including LGBTQ youth and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs points to data from The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to suicide prevention among this population\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>The organization documented a nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/the-trevor-project-shares-post-election-day-crisis-contact-volume-data/\">700% increase\u003c/a> in contacts to its mental health crisis\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>hotline the day after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-trans policies at the federal level have also led to some normalization of prejudice that would previously have been considered taboo, she and other advocates said. In recent years, some local communities have been emboldened to pass their own anti-trans policies. That includes cities in California, where a handful of school boards began requiring staff to tell parents if their child identified as a gender other than that listed in their official records. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/12/california-forced-outing-lgbtq-new-laws-2025/#:~:text=New%20California%20law%20prevents%20schools,what's%20in%20their%20official%20files.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The state has since outlawed such policies.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, previously outspoken advocates have begun to worry that drawing attention to their organizations will lead the Trump administration to target them for funding cuts.[aside postID=news_12029428 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']These threats have not been lost on transgender youth, Jacobs said. While many of the children she serves are remarkably resilient, she said, hearing the president of the United States threaten their rights is terrifying them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening now is this overt hatred that’s being endorsed and supported,” she said, saying vitriol against the transgender community is the worst that she’s seen in her 29 years leading the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Trevor Project published a peer-reviewed study that found that states with laws negatively targeting transgender youth saw suicide attempts among that population increase by as much as 72%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to such laws elsewhere, California secured its status two years ago as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sanctuary state for transgender health care\u003c/a>, implementing a law allowing out-of-state youth and their families to seek hormones and puberty blockers here. Other recent laws require California insurers to cover transgender health services and protect the medical licenses of doctors who provide the care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Trump presidency, that sanctuary status is now being tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the executive orders targeting transgender people: one \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recognizes only two biological sexes\u003c/a>, another\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> threatens funding of schools\u003c/a> that support transgender students, and another \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prevents transgender girls and women\u003c/a> from participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another executive order seeks to end the use of hormone therapy, puberty blockers and other gender-affirming care among people younger than 19, including by prohibiting federal funding for such care. It characterized this care as\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/Presidential-Actions/2025/01/Protecting-Children-From-Chemical-And-Surgical-Mutilation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> “chemical and surgical mutilation”\u003c/a> despite the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202201/the-evidence-trans-youth-gender-affirming-medical-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dozens of studies\u003c/a> show that gender-affirming care positively impacts youth mental health and decreases suicidality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the order, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles temporarily stopped transgender health services for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-21/chla-lift-pause-hormonal-therapy-transgender-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anyone under the age of 19\u003c/a>, only reversing course after California’s Department of Justice sent them a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Letter%20to%20Children%27s%20Hospital%20dated%20February%205%202025_Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warning letter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/department-of-education-california-transgender-students-sports/63790627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched an investigation\u003c/a> into the governing body that oversees high school sports in California, criticizing the organization’s policies that support transgender student athletes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued statements reminding hospitals and clinics of the state law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-new-bill-to-strengthen-protections-for-transgender-care\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">New bill to strengthen protections for transgender care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, who authored a \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wieners-historic-bill-provide-refuge-trans-kids-and-their-families-signed-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 law to make California a safe refuge\u003c/a> for transgender youth, introduced a new bill in February to \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-introduces-legislation-strengthen-landmark-state-refuge-protections-transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">strengthen those protections.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, he decried the “scapegoating” of what he describes as a tiny, vulnerable population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should not surprise anyone that with this kind of toxic, horrific environment targeting trans people, that it would lead to mental health issues,” he said.[aside postID=news_12021521 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1158696624-1020x681.jpg']Joscelyn Inton-Campbell, a youth program manager at\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the San Diego-based\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>TransFamily Support Services, said the support sessions her organization offers have been marked by increasing fear and hopelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the first executive orders hit in January, more than 300 people logged into a zoom meeting hosted by the organization, said Inton-Campbell, who uses she/they pronouns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the responses are ‘Do I have a future? Are they going to try and take away my access to my medical care? When I go to school are they going to deadname me, bully me, misgender me?” Inton-Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-can-i-be-myself-and-will-i-be-safe\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Can I be myself and will I be safe’?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daniella, a 20-year-old community college student in the San Diego area who identifies as transgender, said a man recently burst into her classroom and began verbally harassing students and the professor over their decision to voluntarily list their gender pronouns. The man was not enrolled in the class and was reported to college authorities, Daniella said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was literally terrifying,” she said. “This is the new normal. That is what this society is coming to because that is what people see from leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniella is only being identified by first name because she is not out to her parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even knowing about California’s state protections, Daniella said her mental health has declined. For safety, she has changed the way she dresses. She has also increased the dose she takes of psychiatric medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really have to ask myself the question ‘Can I be myself, and will I be safe?’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather in front of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to protest the hospital’s decision to halt the intake of patients under the age of 19 seeking gender affirming care, on Feb. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(J.W. 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Another attempt by the president to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-trump-federal-judge-5b04fbc742bd32adf98ca108b4b12b37\">defund diversity, equity and inclusion programs\u003c/a>, which was also blocked by court order, has LGBTQ groups worried. Dozens of community centers, universities, and clinics in California receive federal grants specifically supporting transgender services. Some of the center’s grants are in jeopardy, Tuiletufuga said, however they are going to keep supporting San Diego’s LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The center isn’t folding, the center isn’t hiding,” Tuiletufuga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilan Meyer, a professor at UCLA’s law school who studies the impact of social stressors on mental LGBTQ mental health, said part of what’s being lost for transgender youth right now is a sense of progress, even here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always felt that we’re working towards progress and I think that is what is being attacked here,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inton-Campbell, with TransFamily Support Services, said she reminds the youth she serves that the transgender community has survived attacks before and that there are safe adults in their lives who care. That’s one factor that has been shown to reduce suicide risk, Inton-Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, the worst part about Trump’s executive order on trans health care is that it targets children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to bully a child,” she said. “That’s the thing that makes me the most infuriated. These are grown-ass adults picking on children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathie Moehlig, the organization’s executive director, had a message for state leaders:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California lawmakers made California a sanctuary state at a time when it was easy for them to do it,” she said. “Now that it is harder, we’re going to hold them to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit www.chcf.org to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>These threats have not been lost on transgender youth, Jacobs said. While many of the children she serves are remarkably resilient, she said, hearing the president of the United States threaten their rights is terrifying them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening now is this overt hatred that’s being endorsed and supported,” she said, saying vitriol against the transgender community is the worst that she’s seen in her 29 years leading the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Trevor Project published a peer-reviewed study that found that states with laws negatively targeting transgender youth saw suicide attempts among that population increase by as much as 72%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to such laws elsewhere, California secured its status two years ago as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sanctuary state for transgender health care\u003c/a>, implementing a law allowing out-of-state youth and their families to seek hormones and puberty blockers here. Other recent laws require California insurers to cover transgender health services and protect the medical licenses of doctors who provide the care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Trump presidency, that sanctuary status is now being tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the executive orders targeting transgender people: one \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recognizes only two biological sexes\u003c/a>, another\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> threatens funding of schools\u003c/a> that support transgender students, and another \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prevents transgender girls and women\u003c/a> from participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another executive order seeks to end the use of hormone therapy, puberty blockers and other gender-affirming care among people younger than 19, including by prohibiting federal funding for such care. It characterized this care as\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/Presidential-Actions/2025/01/Protecting-Children-From-Chemical-And-Surgical-Mutilation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> “chemical and surgical mutilation”\u003c/a> despite the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202201/the-evidence-trans-youth-gender-affirming-medical-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dozens of studies\u003c/a> show that gender-affirming care positively impacts youth mental health and decreases suicidality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the order, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles temporarily stopped transgender health services for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-21/chla-lift-pause-hormonal-therapy-transgender-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anyone under the age of 19\u003c/a>, only reversing course after California’s Department of Justice sent them a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Letter%20to%20Children%27s%20Hospital%20dated%20February%205%202025_Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warning letter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/department-of-education-california-transgender-students-sports/63790627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched an investigation\u003c/a> into the governing body that oversees high school sports in California, criticizing the organization’s policies that support transgender student athletes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued statements reminding hospitals and clinics of the state law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-new-bill-to-strengthen-protections-for-transgender-care\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">New bill to strengthen protections for transgender care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Joscelyn Inton-Campbell, a youth program manager at\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the San Diego-based\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>TransFamily Support Services, said the support sessions her organization offers have been marked by increasing fear and hopelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the first executive orders hit in January, more than 300 people logged into a zoom meeting hosted by the organization, said Inton-Campbell, who uses she/they pronouns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the responses are ‘Do I have a future? Are they going to try and take away my access to my medical care? When I go to school are they going to deadname me, bully me, misgender me?” Inton-Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-can-i-be-myself-and-will-i-be-safe\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Can I be myself and will I be safe’?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daniella, a 20-year-old community college student in the San Diego area who identifies as transgender, said a man recently burst into her classroom and began verbally harassing students and the professor over their decision to voluntarily list their gender pronouns. The man was not enrolled in the class and was reported to college authorities, Daniella said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was literally terrifying,” she said. “This is the new normal. That is what this society is coming to because that is what people see from leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniella is only being identified by first name because she is not out to her parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even knowing about California’s state protections, Daniella said her mental health has declined. For safety, she has changed the way she dresses. She has also increased the dose she takes of psychiatric medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really have to ask myself the question ‘Can I be myself, and will I be safe?’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/021325_CHLA-Gender-Affirming-Care-Demo_JWH_CM_09-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather in front of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to protest the hospital’s decision to halt the intake of patients under the age of 19 seeking gender affirming care, on Feb. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(J.W. Hendricks for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>L Tuiletufuga, a therapist who works at the San Diego LGBT Community Center, said the trans youth that they counsel feel “specifically and uniquely targeted by this administration.” This has led to increasing concerns about personal and physical safety as well as feelings of isolation, said Tuiletufuga, who uses they/them pronouns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is in the crosshairs of the federal government as a result of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-blocked-imposing-sweeping-federal-funding-freeze-2025-02-25/\">Trump’s attempted federal funding freeze\u003c/a>, which paused $3 trillion of federal spending before it was blocked by court order. Another attempt by the president to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-trump-federal-judge-5b04fbc742bd32adf98ca108b4b12b37\">defund diversity, equity and inclusion programs\u003c/a>, which was also blocked by court order, has LGBTQ groups worried. Dozens of community centers, universities, and clinics in California receive federal grants specifically supporting transgender services. Some of the center’s grants are in jeopardy, Tuiletufuga said, however they are going to keep supporting San Diego’s LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The center isn’t folding, the center isn’t hiding,” Tuiletufuga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilan Meyer, a professor at UCLA’s law school who studies the impact of social stressors on mental LGBTQ mental health, said part of what’s being lost for transgender youth right now is a sense of progress, even here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always felt that we’re working towards progress and I think that is what is being attacked here,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inton-Campbell, with TransFamily Support Services, said she reminds the youth she serves that the transgender community has survived attacks before and that there are safe adults in their lives who care. That’s one factor that has been shown to reduce suicide risk, Inton-Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, the worst part about Trump’s executive order on trans health care is that it targets children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to bully a child,” she said. “That’s the thing that makes me the most infuriated. These are grown-ass adults picking on children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathie Moehlig, the organization’s executive director, had a message for state leaders:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California lawmakers made California a sanctuary state at a time when it was easy for them to do it,” she said. “Now that it is harder, we’re going to hold them to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit www.chcf.org to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has long been an epicenter for lesbian life and culture. Even back in the 1930s, spots like Mona’s 440 Club were known as hubs for lesbians to enjoy drag king performances and socialize. But in the past 30 years, the number of lesbian bars all over the country has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101895055/why-are-there-so-few-lesbian-bars\">a steep decline\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the few remaining lesbian bars in San Francisco, there’s one spot that stands out for its longevity. The Wild Side West has been a staple of lesbian culture in the city for the past 63 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, The Wild Side West is an iconic spot. Inside, the bar feels like it’s always been this way, with women playing pool, kegs lining the walls, and paintings of nude women hanging from the ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if there is one person who knows this bar well, it’s Timotha Doane, an 80-year-old lesbian who has been a regular at the bar since she was 24. When she walks into the bar, everyone seems to know her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029582\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bartender Heather Dunham works at the Wild Side West on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029585\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The exterior of The Wild Side West. Right: Timotha Doane talks with fellow patrons at the Wild Side West on Jan. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I come here almost every day,” Doane said with a laugh. “Sometimes I take a break. I don’t want to encourage too much drinking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doane said she’s had some wild nights here over the decades. She remembers when Janis Joplin was a regular and had stories to tell about many past girlfriends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just so much history [here],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally called The Wild Side, Pat Ramseyer and Nancy White were lesbian partners who founded this bar in North Oakland in 1962. Shortly after opening, they relocated the business to San Francisco and became The Wild Side \u003cem>West\u003c/em>, laying down roots in the North Beach neighborhood on Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paintings hang on the wall at The Wild Side West. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco at the time was already becoming a cultural hub for the LGBTQ community, queerness during the early 1960s was still marked by policing, discrimination and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the most progressive cities, the dominant narrative around LGBTQ was that homosexuality was a sickness, a problem that needed to be handled. Doane remembers one time in New York City in the ’60s when she was targeted for her lesbian identity and masculine presentation. Several young men beat her up in broad daylight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time The Wild Side West opened, consensual acts between same-sex individuals were still criminalized in California, and it was illegal to employ women bartenders. In San Francisco, well-known gay and lesbian watering holes were often raided by police. Officers would arrest patrons and were known to extort money from bar and club owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Patrons play pool at Wild Side West on Jan. 28, 2025. Right: The wall behind a pool table is filled with posters and photos at The Wild Side West. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this climate, a bar owned by lesbians, catering to the lesbian community, was bold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wild Side West quickly became a space of joy and community for many women. It was a place where dancers from the nearby strip clubs gathered, where lesbians could find safety, and where an eccentric crowd of artists drank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to express what it means to find a refuge and respect,” Doane said. “A place where you can have fun and not worry about being attacked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anti-gay sentiment was still alive in San Francisco just outside the doors of the bar.[aside postID=forum_2010101906556 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2024/07/M6A1369_qed-1020x680.jpg']When The Wild Side West moved to its current Bernal Heights location in 1976, some neighbors weren’t happy about it. It was not uncommon for trash, broken toilets, and bathtubs to be dumped against the door of the bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On a very, very regular basis, [Pat and Nancy] would have to move all of those things in order to get the bar open,” said long-time regular Mimi Caesar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Ramseyer and Nancy White would drag the broken sinks and bathtubs to the back of the bar and turn them into art pieces or planters. Decades later, those pieces make unique seating areas for patrons, adorned with vines and surrounded by eclectic statues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029593\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar opens to a sculpture-filled garden at The Wild Side West. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, many lesbian establishments across San Francisco\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13929998/historic-lesbian-bars-san-francisco-mauds-pegs-front-anns-monas-440-tommy-vasu\"> have closed\u003c/a>, but it’s hard to know exactly why. Some people think that the rise of dating apps has made it easier to meet romantic partners, rendering physical lesbian bars less necessary. Some former lesbian bar owners cite gentrification as a root cause. Or, it could be that in a city as expensive as San Francisco, it’s hard for bars to stay afloat if they cater exclusively to women — especially gay women, many of whom have\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101895055/why-are-there-so-few-lesbian-bars\"> faced discrimination in the workplace \u003c/a>for both gender and sexuality, which can lower earnings and limit spending power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But The Wild Side West has managed to stay open. One reason it has survived is the committed clientele. Some people have been consistently coming to the bar for 10, 20, or even 50 years, like Timotha Doane. It might also be that in recent years, more men have started going to the bar. Either way, The Wild Side West has continued to be a refuge for lesbians in a time where the LGBTQ community faces a new wave of attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women come here, and they feel safe to be whoever they are, however they want to be,” Doane said. “And to me, that is a treasure that cannot be praised highly enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Maybe you’ve seen this iconic picture of San Francisco history — two women, walking proudly in San Francisco’s gay freedom parade in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of a parade\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>They’re holding up a huge banner that says: “A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has long been known as an epicenter for queer life — and queer women have been building community in San Francisco for almost \u003cem>100 years\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1930s era music starts playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even way back in the 1930’s San Francisco already had places like Mona’s 440 Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> It was known as the first lesbian night club in San Francisco and it was \u003cem>the \u003c/em>destination for genderfluid lesbians. At Mona’s, drag king performances were front and center, and the club was advertised as a place “Where girls can be boys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, San Francisco has seen a lot of lesbian establishments come and go. But, there is one spot that has survived the longest — The Wild Side West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Bay Curious, we’re heading to the Bernal Heights bar that has been serving lesbians since 1962. We meet a longtime patron who has seen the culture of the city and the lesbian community transform over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music ends\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>To tell us about lesbian history in San Francisco, we’re passing it to our very own queer reporter Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>The Wild Side West has been around for over 60 years. And while so much has changed in the decades since it opened, the inside of the bar feels like it’s always been this way. Kegs lined up against the wall, old portraits of nude women hanging from the ceiling. But the\u003cem> defining\u003c/em> characteristic of the Wild Side West is the garden. To get there you walk through the bar, out the back door and down a steep flight of wooden stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral in tape: \u003c/strong>So there’s a sign that says Pat’s magical garden. And there is just already so many really odd pieces of art. A lot of frog statues … quite a few mannequin limbs. And then over here, there’s like an old bathtub that has been turned into a planter and it has a bunch of plants growing out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>People sit and chat among a maze of greenery and statues. The space feels whimsical and intimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wild Side West is located in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, which for a while was known as a lesbian enclave. And while today, some may consider it to be a neighborhood dive bar, the identity of this place and the commitment of its patrons make it an institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if there is anyone who can tell us about the history and spirit of this bar, it is Timotha Doane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>I am talking to you in the oldest lesbian bar in San Francisco, and I’m the oldest lesbian in it \u003cem>(laughs)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Timotha is 80 years old and has been coming to this bar for 57 years. The original owners of The Wild Side West have passed away, so Timotha is one of few people who have been coming here since its very early days. She’s someone who can talk about what it was like to be a lesbian at the time this bar was founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Timotha at the bar on a weekday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music and sounds of the bar start \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>I come here almost every day. Sometimes I take a break. I don’t want to encourage too much drinking \u003cem>(laughs)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>We sit down next to a painting of a topless woman and she starts telling me about herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>I came out when I was 18, in 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>She says there were moments when being as open as she is made her a target for violence\u003cem>. \u003c/em>She told me about one instance in New York City, when she was in college in the 60’s, just a short time after she came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane:\u003c/strong> I don’t know why this is coming up in my mind right now, but it is — walking down MacDougal Street and me and my butch self, I’ve got two women, one on each arm. On the other side of the street is a group of men my same age, 18, 19 years old. And they came across the street, got in my face. You think you don’t need a man, bitch? And beat the shit out of me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Timotha says this was a pivotal moment of awakening for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>So that was the beginning of it. And I just felt like I need to make being a lesbian a safe, reasonable, honest thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of the bar fade out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Being openly lesbian, like Timotha, was still a radical act in the 1960s. And even in the most progressive cities like New York and San Francisco, queer people faced discrimination and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cascade of archival news tape\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clip 1: \u003c/strong>During the year 1964, we arrested 3,000 homosexuals. Don’t think you won’t get caught because this is one thing you will not get away with. And the rest of your life will be a living hell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clip 2: \u003c/strong>The problem of homosexuality …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clip 3: \u003c/strong>We do not employ homosexuals and if we discover homosexuals in our department, we discharge them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>The dominant narrative around gay people was that they were sick or a problem to be dealt with. And it was in this climate, in 1962, that Pat Ramseyer and Nancy White opened The Wild Side in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later it moved to San Francisco and became the Wild Side West. Pat and Nancy were lesbians and life partners who managed to open the bar during a time when it was still illegal to employ women as bartenders in California. They’ve both since passed away, but Timotha remembers them fondly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>They were wild women, but they were also good business women. And we respected them for that. And at the time, having places for women only took courage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music fades out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>When the bar set up shop on Broadway in North Beach, the relationship between the LGBT community and the city was … complicated. On one hand, San Francisco had already been established as a capital for gay life. But even here, the policing of queer life was pervasive and consensual acts between same-sex adults were criminalized. The police were known to extort money from gay and lesbian establishments and often raided them to arrest patrons. All of this was part of a playbook to keep queer people from freely socializing. So a bar owned by lesbians, catering to lesbians was bold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this era, Timotha moved to SF and found The Wild Side West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>And I started coming to this bar when I was 24 years old. I was working as a stripper on Broadway. Just two doors up the street. So on my breaks, I would put a trench coat on over my G-string and trot on up the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Since then, Wild Side West has been a place of joy and community for her. It’s where dancers gathered, where lesbians could flirt and hang out, and where an eccentric crowd of artists drank with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music posts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane:\u003c/strong> It’s hard to express what it means to find a refuge. And respect and a place where you can have fun and not worry about being attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>But anti-gay sentiment was still-alive just outside the doors of the bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>In 1976, the bar moved to its current Bernal Heights location and some neighbors weren’t happy about it. Mimi, a long-time regular, remembers this era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mimi: \u003c/strong>The folks up there who did not want a lesbian bar, would pretty much show up every morning before opening and put toilet bowls and bathtubs and sinks up against the door so that they couldn’t open it. And on a very, very regular basis, they would have to move all of those things in order to get the bar open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Nancy and Pat would lug the toilets and broken sinks to the backyard and transform them into planters, becoming the first pieces in their eccentric backyard collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, The Wild Side West is one of three dedicated lesbian bars in San Francisco. But there used to be many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Mimi again:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mimi: \u003c/strong>When I first got here, there were 10 or 11, seven-day-a-week lesbian bars. And one by one by one drifted. But almost every neighborhood in this city had them, and they all had a different flavor. But that did change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>It’s hard to know why lesbian bars have been going out of business over the last 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people think dating apps have made it easier to meet romantic partners, making physical lesbian bars less necessary. Others say our culture has changed and lots of spaces now feel safe to queer folks. Or, it could be that in a city as expensive as San Francisco, it’s hard for bars to stay afloat if they cater exclusively to women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Wild Side West has endured despite the odds. One obvious explanation is the committed clientele. I mean, there are regulars who’ve been coming here 10, 20 … even 50 years … like Timotha. And in more recent years, it’s also not uncommon to see men here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music fades out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>At the time I started coming here there weren’t any men. But economically, the dyke community couldn’t have supported it to become what it is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Either way, the gritty and tough spirit of this bar perseveres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wild Side West is a staple of lesbian history in San Francisco and it’s the oldest, still standing lesbian bar in the city. Lesbians have gathered here for decades. It’s always been a refuge from the violence and discrimination of the outside world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>Women come here and they feel safe. And to me, that is a treasure that cannot be praised highly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>As the LGBT community faces a new wave of attacks, regulars like Timotha are once again reminded of how powerful a sanctuary like this can be. They hope the Wild Side West remains a safe place for generations of lesbians to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>That was KQED’s Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music ends\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special thanks to Caroline Smith, who collected tape for this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Individual support from our audience means more than ever right now. If you’d like to help keep shows like Bay Curious going, head to \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/donate\">KQED.org/donate\u003c/a>. Every bit does help. Thanks!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by: Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale, and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional engineering this week by Brian Douglas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special thanks to those in the KQED podcasting department: Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Alana Wilson, Jen Chien, Holly Kernan, and everyone on Team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has long been an epicenter for lesbian life and culture. Even back in the 1930s, spots like Mona’s 440 Club were known as hubs for lesbians to enjoy drag king performances and socialize. But in the past 30 years, the number of lesbian bars all over the country has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101895055/why-are-there-so-few-lesbian-bars\">a steep decline\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the few remaining lesbian bars in San Francisco, there’s one spot that stands out for its longevity. The Wild Side West has been a staple of lesbian culture in the city for the past 63 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, The Wild Side West is an iconic spot. Inside, the bar feels like it’s always been this way, with women playing pool, kegs lining the walls, and paintings of nude women hanging from the ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if there is one person who knows this bar well, it’s Timotha Doane, an 80-year-old lesbian who has been a regular at the bar since she was 24. When she walks into the bar, everyone seems to know her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029582\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-15-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bartender Heather Dunham works at the Wild Side West on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029585\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The exterior of The Wild Side West. Right: Timotha Doane talks with fellow patrons at the Wild Side West on Jan. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I come here almost every day,” Doane said with a laugh. “Sometimes I take a break. I don’t want to encourage too much drinking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doane said she’s had some wild nights here over the decades. She remembers when Janis Joplin was a regular and had stories to tell about many past girlfriends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just so much history [here],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally called The Wild Side, Pat Ramseyer and Nancy White were lesbian partners who founded this bar in North Oakland in 1962. Shortly after opening, they relocated the business to San Francisco and became The Wild Side \u003cem>West\u003c/em>, laying down roots in the North Beach neighborhood on Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250205-WildSideWest-01-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paintings hang on the wall at The Wild Side West. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco at the time was already becoming a cultural hub for the LGBTQ community, queerness during the early 1960s was still marked by policing, discrimination and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the most progressive cities, the dominant narrative around LGBTQ was that homosexuality was a sickness, a problem that needed to be handled. Doane remembers one time in New York City in the ’60s when she was targeted for her lesbian identity and masculine presentation. Several young men beat her up in broad daylight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time The Wild Side West opened, consensual acts between same-sex individuals were still criminalized in California, and it was illegal to employ women bartenders. In San Francisco, well-known gay and lesbian watering holes were often raided by police. Officers would arrest patrons and were known to extort money from bar and club owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Patrons play pool at Wild Side West on Jan. 28, 2025. Right: The wall behind a pool table is filled with posters and photos at The Wild Side West. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this climate, a bar owned by lesbians, catering to the lesbian community, was bold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wild Side West quickly became a space of joy and community for many women. It was a place where dancers from the nearby strip clubs gathered, where lesbians could find safety, and where an eccentric crowd of artists drank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When The Wild Side West moved to its current Bernal Heights location in 1976, some neighbors weren’t happy about it. It was not uncommon for trash, broken toilets, and bathtubs to be dumped against the door of the bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On a very, very regular basis, [Pat and Nancy] would have to move all of those things in order to get the bar open,” said long-time regular Mimi Caesar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Ramseyer and Nancy White would drag the broken sinks and bathtubs to the back of the bar and turn them into art pieces or planters. Decades later, those pieces make unique seating areas for patrons, adorned with vines and surrounded by eclectic statues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029593\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250128-WildSideWest-09-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar opens to a sculpture-filled garden at The Wild Side West. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, many lesbian establishments across San Francisco\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13929998/historic-lesbian-bars-san-francisco-mauds-pegs-front-anns-monas-440-tommy-vasu\"> have closed\u003c/a>, but it’s hard to know exactly why. Some people think that the rise of dating apps has made it easier to meet romantic partners, rendering physical lesbian bars less necessary. Some former lesbian bar owners cite gentrification as a root cause. Or, it could be that in a city as expensive as San Francisco, it’s hard for bars to stay afloat if they cater exclusively to women — especially gay women, many of whom have\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101895055/why-are-there-so-few-lesbian-bars\"> faced discrimination in the workplace \u003c/a>for both gender and sexuality, which can lower earnings and limit spending power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But The Wild Side West has managed to stay open. One reason it has survived is the committed clientele. Some people have been consistently coming to the bar for 10, 20, or even 50 years, like Timotha Doane. It might also be that in recent years, more men have started going to the bar. Either way, The Wild Side West has continued to be a refuge for lesbians in a time where the LGBTQ community faces a new wave of attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women come here, and they feel safe to be whoever they are, however they want to be,” Doane said. “And to me, that is a treasure that cannot be praised highly enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Maybe you’ve seen this iconic picture of San Francisco history — two women, walking proudly in San Francisco’s gay freedom parade in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of a parade\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>They’re holding up a huge banner that says: “A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has long been known as an epicenter for queer life — and queer women have been building community in San Francisco for almost \u003cem>100 years\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1930s era music starts playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even way back in the 1930’s San Francisco already had places like Mona’s 440 Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> It was known as the first lesbian night club in San Francisco and it was \u003cem>the \u003c/em>destination for genderfluid lesbians. At Mona’s, drag king performances were front and center, and the club was advertised as a place “Where girls can be boys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, San Francisco has seen a lot of lesbian establishments come and go. But, there is one spot that has survived the longest — The Wild Side West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Bay Curious, we’re heading to the Bernal Heights bar that has been serving lesbians since 1962. We meet a longtime patron who has seen the culture of the city and the lesbian community transform over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music ends\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>To tell us about lesbian history in San Francisco, we’re passing it to our very own queer reporter Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>The Wild Side West has been around for over 60 years. And while so much has changed in the decades since it opened, the inside of the bar feels like it’s always been this way. Kegs lined up against the wall, old portraits of nude women hanging from the ceiling. But the\u003cem> defining\u003c/em> characteristic of the Wild Side West is the garden. To get there you walk through the bar, out the back door and down a steep flight of wooden stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral in tape: \u003c/strong>So there’s a sign that says Pat’s magical garden. And there is just already so many really odd pieces of art. A lot of frog statues … quite a few mannequin limbs. And then over here, there’s like an old bathtub that has been turned into a planter and it has a bunch of plants growing out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>People sit and chat among a maze of greenery and statues. The space feels whimsical and intimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wild Side West is located in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, which for a while was known as a lesbian enclave. And while today, some may consider it to be a neighborhood dive bar, the identity of this place and the commitment of its patrons make it an institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if there is anyone who can tell us about the history and spirit of this bar, it is Timotha Doane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>I am talking to you in the oldest lesbian bar in San Francisco, and I’m the oldest lesbian in it \u003cem>(laughs)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Timotha is 80 years old and has been coming to this bar for 57 years. The original owners of The Wild Side West have passed away, so Timotha is one of few people who have been coming here since its very early days. She’s someone who can talk about what it was like to be a lesbian at the time this bar was founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Timotha at the bar on a weekday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music and sounds of the bar start \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>I come here almost every day. Sometimes I take a break. I don’t want to encourage too much drinking \u003cem>(laughs)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>We sit down next to a painting of a topless woman and she starts telling me about herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>I came out when I was 18, in 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>She says there were moments when being as open as she is made her a target for violence\u003cem>. \u003c/em>She told me about one instance in New York City, when she was in college in the 60’s, just a short time after she came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane:\u003c/strong> I don’t know why this is coming up in my mind right now, but it is — walking down MacDougal Street and me and my butch self, I’ve got two women, one on each arm. On the other side of the street is a group of men my same age, 18, 19 years old. And they came across the street, got in my face. You think you don’t need a man, bitch? And beat the shit out of me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Timotha says this was a pivotal moment of awakening for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>So that was the beginning of it. And I just felt like I need to make being a lesbian a safe, reasonable, honest thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of the bar fade out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Being openly lesbian, like Timotha, was still a radical act in the 1960s. And even in the most progressive cities like New York and San Francisco, queer people faced discrimination and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cascade of archival news tape\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clip 1: \u003c/strong>During the year 1964, we arrested 3,000 homosexuals. Don’t think you won’t get caught because this is one thing you will not get away with. And the rest of your life will be a living hell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clip 2: \u003c/strong>The problem of homosexuality …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clip 3: \u003c/strong>We do not employ homosexuals and if we discover homosexuals in our department, we discharge them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>The dominant narrative around gay people was that they were sick or a problem to be dealt with. And it was in this climate, in 1962, that Pat Ramseyer and Nancy White opened The Wild Side in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later it moved to San Francisco and became the Wild Side West. Pat and Nancy were lesbians and life partners who managed to open the bar during a time when it was still illegal to employ women as bartenders in California. They’ve both since passed away, but Timotha remembers them fondly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>They were wild women, but they were also good business women. And we respected them for that. And at the time, having places for women only took courage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music fades out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>When the bar set up shop on Broadway in North Beach, the relationship between the LGBT community and the city was … complicated. On one hand, San Francisco had already been established as a capital for gay life. But even here, the policing of queer life was pervasive and consensual acts between same-sex adults were criminalized. The police were known to extort money from gay and lesbian establishments and often raided them to arrest patrons. All of this was part of a playbook to keep queer people from freely socializing. So a bar owned by lesbians, catering to lesbians was bold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this era, Timotha moved to SF and found The Wild Side West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane: \u003c/strong>And I started coming to this bar when I was 24 years old. I was working as a stripper on Broadway. Just two doors up the street. So on my breaks, I would put a trench coat on over my G-string and trot on up the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Since then, Wild Side West has been a place of joy and community for her. It’s where dancers gathered, where lesbians could flirt and hang out, and where an eccentric crowd of artists drank with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music posts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timotha Doane:\u003c/strong> It’s hard to express what it means to find a refuge. 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