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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amid a flurry of recent school board policies aimed at the rights of transgender students, California passed a new law in July that prevents schools from requiring staff to notify parents if a student identifies as LGBTQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1955?slug=CA_202320240AB1955&_gl=1*x7e72b*_gcl_au*NzkyMjg5MTU1LjE3MzI3MzQ2Mzg.*_ga*MTg3NzMyNTU5Ny4xNzMyNzM0NjM5*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNDk4MDc5MC44LjAuMTczNDk4MDk0NS4yMi4wLjA.*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNDk4MDc5MC44LjAuMTczNDk4MDc5MC4wLjAuMA..*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNDk4MDc5MS44LjAuMTczNDk4MDc5MS4wLjAuMA..\">AB 1955\u003c/a>, came in response to a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/08/culture-wars/\">handful of school boards\u003c/a> adopting policies that require teachers and other \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/trans-youth-california/\">school staff to notify parents\u003c/a> if a student identifies as a gender other than what’s on their school records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers can still talk to their parents,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a press conference on Monday in which he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/12/job-training/\">touted a new plan to improve career opportunities for adults\u003c/a>. “What they can’t do is fire a teacher for not being a snitch. I don’t think teachers should be gender police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ advocates said that “forced outing” policies, such as those adopted in Chino, Temecula and a dozen other districts, infringe on students’ privacy and could potentially harm students whose parents disapprove of their identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state sued to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/08/culture-wars/\">stop Chino’s policy\u003c/a>, and most districts either scrapped their policies, tweaked the language or put them on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This act “could not be more timely or necessary, and LGBTQ+ students across California can breathe a sigh of relief,” Tony Hoang, executive director of Equality California, which advocates for LGBTQ rights, wrote. “LGBTQ+ youth can now have these important family conversations when they are ready and in ways that strengthen the relationship between parent and child, not as a result of extremist politicians intruding into the parent-child relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The battle continues’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the new law said that parental notification policies actually strengthen ties between students and parents, and schools should not withhold information on such important matters. Even though a parental notification measure that would have applied to all schools \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/trans-youth-california/\">failed to qualify for the ballot\u003c/a>, opponents vowed to keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This (law) doesn’t clarify anything. And nothing prevents individual teachers from bringing the issue up with parents,” said Roseville school board member Jonathan Zachreson, an organizer of the failed ballot measure and whose district was among those that passed parental notification policies. “So the battle continues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law also requires the state Department of Education to update its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/pl/supportlgbtq.asp\">LGBTQ resources\u003c/a> and encourage school districts to offer counseling, support groups, clubs, anti-bullying policies and other measures to support LGBTQ students and their families. Schools would have to pay for those services with their existing funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ young people are particularly vulnerable on school campuses. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2024/\">recent survey\u003c/a> of 18,000 LGBTQ young people nationwide, nearly half said they had been bullied in the past year, and 10% said they had attempted suicide. Those whose schools supported LGBTQ rights were less likely to suffer from mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the new law sparks a backlash in more conservative areas of the state, California was right to move forward with it, especially as some states push ahead with their own parental notification policies, said USC education professor Morgan Polikoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will everyone like this law? Certainly not. Will it lead to conflict? There is no doubt,” Polikoff said. “But I am hopeful this will be good for the queer kids in California’s schools and will point the way toward similar efforts in other states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters’ Adam Echelman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014337/what-can-trans-folks-do-to-prepare-for-another-trump-administration\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahora que el expresidente Donald Trump se prepara para regresar a la Casa Blanca en enero, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907810/the-future-of-trans-rights-in-a-trump-presidency\">los defensores de las comunidades de personas trangénero\u003c/a> han expresado su profunda preocupación por los derechos de éstas en los próximos años.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de las elecciones, “el miedo es muy, muy real”, dijo Chase Overholt, director de Positive Images, un centro comunitario LGBTQIA+ de Santa Rosa que atiende al Norte de la Bahía. “Sabíamos que Trump era la elección equivocada para mi comunidad, la protección de mis derechos, los derechos de mis amigos y el acceso a los servicios de salud a través de las fronteras estatales, ”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump ha prometido retirar la subvención de Medicare y Medicaid a los hospitales que proporcionen tratamiento de transición de género a menores. El Proyecto 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">una detallada agenda política de 900 páginas para la próxima administración republicana\u003c/a>, elaborada y apoyada por aliados de Trump, antiguos y actuales empleados de Trump y el vicepresidente electo JD Vance, también aboga por \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/project-2025-lgbtq-rights\">eliminar las normativas que prohíben la discriminación basada en la identidad de género, la orientación sexual y la condición trans\u003c/a>.[ad fullwidth]El 12 de noviembre, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907810/the-future-of-trans-rights-in-a-trump-presidency\">KQED Forum organizó una conversación enfocada en el futuro de los derechos de las personas trans\u003c/a> en California bajo Trump. Entre los invitados estaban Honey Mahogany, directora de la Oficina de Iniciativas Transgénero de San Francisco, quien mencionó que es difícil ofrecer recomendaciones concretas en este momento a las personas trans y sus familias, dada la incertidumbre de lo que está por venir. Pero en medio de estos ataques, dijo Overholt, las elecciones “también han traído una sensación de ‘OK, es hora de ponernos a trabajar, para asegurarnos de que la población de esta zona tenga acceso a lo que necesita”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aún se pueden hacer algunas cosas, incluso en esta fase tan temprana. Siga leyendo para saber qué pueden hacer los californianos transgénero en este momento para encontrar apoyo y sentirse más seguros.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Encuentre y cultive su comunidad\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Nuestro consejo es que primero hable con sus seres queridos”, dijo Jorge Reyes Salinas, director de comunicaciones de Equality California, la mayor organización estatal de derechos civiles LGBTQ+ de los EE.UU. “Y luego cuidese a sí mismo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Este es un momento muy difícil en el que hay mucha angustia emocional, y necesita ser tomado en cuenta en la comunidad LGBTQ”, dijo Reyes Salinas. Recurrir a los demás también puede ayudar a una persona a sentir el apoyo, y el de su propia comunidad, tras las elecciones, dijo, y ayudarle a “comprender que no estamos solos y que hay personas que luchan y pelean por todos nuestros derechos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overholt también hace hincapié que organizaciones como Positive Images también intentarán colaborar y fortalecerse sus alianzas para mostrar que se que “la comunidad queer no es un monolito”. “Tenemos personas trans con distintos estatus de inmigración. Tenemos personas trans negras. Tenemos muchos amigos que necesitan apoyo, por los que nuestra organización, como organización queer, no puede hacer mucho”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un manifestante sostiene un cartel en el que se lee «Black Trans Lives Matter» (Las vidas de los negros trans importan) durante una marcha en San Francisco en marzo de 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En este momento, “nuestra verdadera fortaleza va a estar en la creación de coaliciones y en apoyarnos en otras organizaciones como la Asociación Nacional para el Progreso de las Personas de Raza Negra (o NAACP por sus siglas en inglés), como los proveedores de servicios latinos, como nuestra asistencia jurídica local para asegurarnos de que cuando surjan las situaciones, contemos con los recursos a nuestro alcance”, dijo Overholt. “Para que nuestros amigos puedan tomar medidas inmediatas para hacer lo que tienen que hacer, ya sea para curar parte de ese trauma o daño que se ha hecho o para protegerse contra él”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En resumen, que sepa que no está solo, aunque así lo parezca.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Tenga su documentación lista\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Una de las cosas más importantes que puede hacer ahora mismo es asegurarse de que sus documentos legales estén en orden”, dijo Overholt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted es trans y está interesado en un cambio de \u003ca href=\"https://transcare.ucsf.edu/legal-info-and-namegender-changes\">nombre legal o cambio de indicación de género\u003c/a>, “usted debe presentar esa documentación mañana”, dijo. \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/id/\">El Transgender Law Center ofrece más información sobre el cambio de nombre o de indicación de género\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La razón por la que esto es urgente, dijo Overholt, es “porque eso probablemente va a ser una de las herramientas [que los californianos tendrán] para proteger nuestro acceso a diferentes recursos y servicios de salud”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) tiene una guía que explica \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/documents\">estado por estado qué hace falta para realizar cambios en sus documentos estatales y federales\u003c/a>, incluyendo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Su nombre legal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su licencia de conducir o identificación estatal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su certificado de nacimiento\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su pasaporte de EE.UU.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su registro del Seguro Social\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sus documentos de inmigración\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Si la burocracia de los cambios de nombre o de indicador de género le resulta desalentadora en estos momentos, Honey Mahogany le aconseja que busque apoyo y asesoramiento en las organizaciones LGBTQ+ locales, que pueden contar con equipos especiales para ayudarle en estos procesos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En concreto, Mahogany recomienda el \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/\">Centro LGBT de San Francisco\u003c/a>, el Distrito Transgénero de San Francisco y los \u003ca href=\"https://lyon-martin.org/es/\">Servicios de Salud Comunitarios Lyon-Martin\u003c/a> por el apoyo que puedan prestar a las personas que desean cambiar su nombre o su indicador de género y “poner sus cosas en orden desde el punto de vista legal”.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']“Sólo quiero que la gente se sienta segura”, dijo Mahogany. “Y por eso, en este momento, sólo animo a todas las personas trans a que hagan lo que crean que les hará sentirse más seguras”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Y el matrimonio igualitario? Aunque el Proyecto 2025 no pide explícitamente la anulación de los matrimonios entre personas del mismo sexo, la ACLU ha afirmado que \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/project-2025-is-coming-after-lgbtq-americans/\">el documento presenta muchos argumentos indirectos para tratarlos como uniones de segunda clase\u003c/a>. Tom Temprano, director gerente de asuntos externos de Equality California, dijo que “no es una coincidencia” que los \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012822/california-prop-roundup-heres-what-passed-and-what-got-rejected\">votantes de California votaron por una abrumadora mayoría para aprobar la Proposición 3 la semana pasada\u003c/a>, salvaguardando el derecho al matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo dentro de la Constitución estatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Busque apoyo, y medidas, en los recursos locales\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A diferencia de muchas partes del país, el Área de la Bahía cuenta con una sólida red de centros comunitarios, recursos y grupos de defensa al servicio de la comunidad LGBTQ+. Estas organizaciones suelen ofrecer de todo, desde vivienda, asistencia para recibir servicios médicos y hasta recursos jurídicos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si aún no se ha puesto en contacto con su organización más cercana, ahora es el momento, dijo Reyes Salinas. “Vea qué recursos están disponibles, además de verificar con cualquier organización transgénero que haya estado siguiendo y ver cuáles son sus consejos” en términos de cómo estar listo para una segunda presidencia de Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estos son sólo algunos de los recursos locales y estatales disponibles para las personas trans y sus familias, en persona y en línea:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/program/resources/\">SF LGBT Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.posimages.org/support\">Positive Images Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-transgender-community-services?_gl=1*1cgn943*_ga*MjI1MTYwNTY4LjE3MzA0MDEzMzI.*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..\">San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com/\">San Francisco Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyon-martin.org/\">Lyon-Martin Community Health Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/transgender-support\">Oakland LGBTQ Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">Lyric Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prevention.ucsf.edu/transguide\">UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Si no vive cerca de un centro o no puede desplazarse a uno, Reyes Salinas recomienda visitar la página web de \u003ca href=\"https://transfamilysos.org/\">TransFamily Support Services\u003c/a>, que tiene una lista de recursos en torno al apoyo a la salud mental y las agencias de apoyo legal y médico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hable con su médico\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si tiene un proveedor de atención médica, póngase en contacto con él lo antes posible para que le dé su opinión. Por ejemplo, podría hacer preguntas concretas sobre las posibilidades de acceso a largo plazo a los medicamentos o servicios que necesite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cada persona trans necesita diferentes servicios médicos”, subraya Overholt, desde la terapia hormonal sustitutiva (THS) hasta “cosas a las que se puede acceder en un centro de estética o un consultorio médico”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por esta razón, Overholt recomienda que se ponga en contacto lo antes posible con “personas que te apoyen y trabajen en estos ámbitos y les pregunte: ‘¿Qué es lo máximo que puedo hacer para prepararme, para tener acceso a estos recursos durante el mayor tiempo posible?’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Siga los planes de California ante una segunda presidencia de Trump\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Algo que destacaron los expertos con los que habló KQED: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">Los líderes de California han sido claros sobre su intención de desafiar las acciones y políticas de una segunda presidencia de Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo es más, estos planes han estado en preparación durante mucho tiempo, dijo Mahogany, señalando que “hay muchos de nosotros” en el gobierno local “que han estado pensando sobre las cosas y preparándose para … la posibilidad de que nos enfrentaríamos a otra administración anti-LGBTQ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante la primera presidencia de Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/california-vs-trump-lawsuits/\">California demandó a su administración en promedio cada 12 días\u003c/a> sobre temas que van desde la inmigración hasta el medio ambiente. Ahora, en vísperas de un segundo mandato, el fiscal general del estado, Rob Bonta, dijo que California ha “pensado en todas las posibilidades de los ataques a nuestros valores, nuestra gente, nuestro estado, y esperamos que ciertos litigios surjan o ciertas acciones provengan del gobierno federal y ciertos litigios que tomaremos en respuesta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay muchos escenarios diferentes sobre muchos temas diferentes, desde la inmigración hasta el medio ambiente, desde los derechos civiles hasta la seguridad de las armas”, dijo Bonta. “La lista es larga, pero estamos preparados”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temprano, de Equality California, dijo que “afortunadamente en los últimos años, California ya ha promulgado algunas de las protecciones más fuertes, protecciones legales y apoyos para las personas LGBTQ, y en concreto, las personas trans en toda la nación.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Así que si va a estar en cualquier lugar de este país durante la administración Trump como una persona queer y especialmente trans, California es el lugar más seguro y más afirmativo de la nación para estar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany hizo hincapié en que esta planeación se está llevando a nivel local, así como en todo el estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aquí en San Francisco, la Oficina de Iniciativas Transgénero está organizando conversaciones con otras organizaciones de transgénero de la ciudad para averiguar cuáles son las necesidades, qué dice y siente la gente, y cómo podemos afrontar los próximos cuatro años», explicó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Que quede claro que \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/16/california-remains-the-worlds-5th-largest-economy/\">California es la quinta economía del mundo\u003c/a>”, dijo Mahogany. “Tenemos mucho poder aquí, y no deberíamos tener miedo de utilizarlo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Por último, no se desespere, aunque en estos momentos le parezca mucho pedir\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Todos los activistas con los que habló KQED reconocieron el profundo dolor y la aflicción que sienten muchas personas de la comunidad en estos momentos, y que es importante no forzarse a aceptar nada si aún no se está preparado para ello. Pero Overholt dijo que, como organización, Positive Images quiere transmitir que “no se ha perdido toda esperanza”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos esperan momentos oscuros”, afirmó. “Pero habrá claridad, y vamos a seguir trabajando, y vamos a permanecer aquí. Llevamos aquí 34 años. Vamos a estar aquí al menos otros 34 más”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esto no quiere decir que no vaya a ser difícil, pero la perseverancia va a ser la clave aquí”, dijo Overholt. “Sabemos que los efectos emocionales de un trauma, un trauma colectivo compartido como éste, son difíciles. Pero hay recursos, y esperamos que la gente pueda apoyarse en ellos para encontrar algo de tranquilidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuestra comunidad ha sido fuerte y ha demostrado que en muchos momentos en los que hemos estado solos, hemos tenido éxito debido al apoyo de la comunidad que está detrás de este movimiento”, dijo Reyes Salinas. Señaló que la historia de la resistencia LGBTQ+ a la opresión puede traer consuelo especialmente a las personas trans más jóvenes que no eran adultas durante la primera presidencia de Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esta es una lucha en la que estamos todos juntos, y tenemos esto porque nos tenemos a nosotros”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo incluye información de Brian Krans, de KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/soytapatia\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista, \u003ca>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>El 12 de noviembre, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907810/the-future-of-trans-rights-in-a-trump-presidency\">KQED Forum organizó una conversación enfocada en el futuro de los derechos de las personas trans\u003c/a> en California bajo Trump. Entre los invitados estaban Honey Mahogany, directora de la Oficina de Iniciativas Transgénero de San Francisco, quien mencionó que es difícil ofrecer recomendaciones concretas en este momento a las personas trans y sus familias, dada la incertidumbre de lo que está por venir. Pero en medio de estos ataques, dijo Overholt, las elecciones “también han traído una sensación de ‘OK, es hora de ponernos a trabajar, para asegurarnos de que la población de esta zona tenga acceso a lo que necesita”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aún se pueden hacer algunas cosas, incluso en esta fase tan temprana. Siga leyendo para saber qué pueden hacer los californianos transgénero en este momento para encontrar apoyo y sentirse más seguros.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Encuentre y cultive su comunidad\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Nuestro consejo es que primero hable con sus seres queridos”, dijo Jorge Reyes Salinas, director de comunicaciones de Equality California, la mayor organización estatal de derechos civiles LGBTQ+ de los EE.UU. “Y luego cuidese a sí mismo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Este es un momento muy difícil en el que hay mucha angustia emocional, y necesita ser tomado en cuenta en la comunidad LGBTQ”, dijo Reyes Salinas. Recurrir a los demás también puede ayudar a una persona a sentir el apoyo, y el de su propia comunidad, tras las elecciones, dijo, y ayudarle a “comprender que no estamos solos y que hay personas que luchan y pelean por todos nuestros derechos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overholt también hace hincapié que organizaciones como Positive Images también intentarán colaborar y fortalecerse sus alianzas para mostrar que se que “la comunidad queer no es un monolito”. “Tenemos personas trans con distintos estatus de inmigración. Tenemos personas trans negras. Tenemos muchos amigos que necesitan apoyo, por los que nuestra organización, como organización queer, no puede hacer mucho”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/black-trans-lives-picture-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un manifestante sostiene un cartel en el que se lee «Black Trans Lives Matter» (Las vidas de los negros trans importan) durante una marcha en San Francisco en marzo de 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En este momento, “nuestra verdadera fortaleza va a estar en la creación de coaliciones y en apoyarnos en otras organizaciones como la Asociación Nacional para el Progreso de las Personas de Raza Negra (o NAACP por sus siglas en inglés), como los proveedores de servicios latinos, como nuestra asistencia jurídica local para asegurarnos de que cuando surjan las situaciones, contemos con los recursos a nuestro alcance”, dijo Overholt. “Para que nuestros amigos puedan tomar medidas inmediatas para hacer lo que tienen que hacer, ya sea para curar parte de ese trauma o daño que se ha hecho o para protegerse contra él”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En resumen, que sepa que no está solo, aunque así lo parezca.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Tenga su documentación lista\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Una de las cosas más importantes que puede hacer ahora mismo es asegurarse de que sus documentos legales estén en orden”, dijo Overholt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted es trans y está interesado en un cambio de \u003ca href=\"https://transcare.ucsf.edu/legal-info-and-namegender-changes\">nombre legal o cambio de indicación de género\u003c/a>, “usted debe presentar esa documentación mañana”, dijo. \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/id/\">El Transgender Law Center ofrece más información sobre el cambio de nombre o de indicación de género\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La razón por la que esto es urgente, dijo Overholt, es “porque eso probablemente va a ser una de las herramientas [que los californianos tendrán] para proteger nuestro acceso a diferentes recursos y servicios de salud”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) tiene una guía que explica \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/documents\">estado por estado qué hace falta para realizar cambios en sus documentos estatales y federales\u003c/a>, incluyendo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Su nombre legal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su licencia de conducir o identificación estatal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su certificado de nacimiento\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su pasaporte de EE.UU.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su registro del Seguro Social\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sus documentos de inmigración\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Si la burocracia de los cambios de nombre o de indicador de género le resulta desalentadora en estos momentos, Honey Mahogany le aconseja que busque apoyo y asesoramiento en las organizaciones LGBTQ+ locales, que pueden contar con equipos especiales para ayudarle en estos procesos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En concreto, Mahogany recomienda el \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/\">Centro LGBT de San Francisco\u003c/a>, el Distrito Transgénero de San Francisco y los \u003ca href=\"https://lyon-martin.org/es/\">Servicios de Salud Comunitarios Lyon-Martin\u003c/a> por el apoyo que puedan prestar a las personas que desean cambiar su nombre o su indicador de género y “poner sus cosas en orden desde el punto de vista legal”.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Sólo quiero que la gente se sienta segura”, dijo Mahogany. “Y por eso, en este momento, sólo animo a todas las personas trans a que hagan lo que crean que les hará sentirse más seguras”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Y el matrimonio igualitario? Aunque el Proyecto 2025 no pide explícitamente la anulación de los matrimonios entre personas del mismo sexo, la ACLU ha afirmado que \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/project-2025-is-coming-after-lgbtq-americans/\">el documento presenta muchos argumentos indirectos para tratarlos como uniones de segunda clase\u003c/a>. Tom Temprano, director gerente de asuntos externos de Equality California, dijo que “no es una coincidencia” que los \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012822/california-prop-roundup-heres-what-passed-and-what-got-rejected\">votantes de California votaron por una abrumadora mayoría para aprobar la Proposición 3 la semana pasada\u003c/a>, salvaguardando el derecho al matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo dentro de la Constitución estatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Busque apoyo, y medidas, en los recursos locales\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A diferencia de muchas partes del país, el Área de la Bahía cuenta con una sólida red de centros comunitarios, recursos y grupos de defensa al servicio de la comunidad LGBTQ+. Estas organizaciones suelen ofrecer de todo, desde vivienda, asistencia para recibir servicios médicos y hasta recursos jurídicos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si aún no se ha puesto en contacto con su organización más cercana, ahora es el momento, dijo Reyes Salinas. “Vea qué recursos están disponibles, además de verificar con cualquier organización transgénero que haya estado siguiendo y ver cuáles son sus consejos” en términos de cómo estar listo para una segunda presidencia de Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estos son sólo algunos de los recursos locales y estatales disponibles para las personas trans y sus familias, en persona y en línea:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/program/resources/\">SF LGBT Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.posimages.org/support\">Positive Images Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-transgender-community-services?_gl=1*1cgn943*_ga*MjI1MTYwNTY4LjE3MzA0MDEzMzI.*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..\">San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com/\">San Francisco Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyon-martin.org/\">Lyon-Martin Community Health Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/transgender-support\">Oakland LGBTQ Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">Lyric Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prevention.ucsf.edu/transguide\">UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Si no vive cerca de un centro o no puede desplazarse a uno, Reyes Salinas recomienda visitar la página web de \u003ca href=\"https://transfamilysos.org/\">TransFamily Support Services\u003c/a>, que tiene una lista de recursos en torno al apoyo a la salud mental y las agencias de apoyo legal y médico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hable con su médico\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si tiene un proveedor de atención médica, póngase en contacto con él lo antes posible para que le dé su opinión. Por ejemplo, podría hacer preguntas concretas sobre las posibilidades de acceso a largo plazo a los medicamentos o servicios que necesite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cada persona trans necesita diferentes servicios médicos”, subraya Overholt, desde la terapia hormonal sustitutiva (THS) hasta “cosas a las que se puede acceder en un centro de estética o un consultorio médico”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por esta razón, Overholt recomienda que se ponga en contacto lo antes posible con “personas que te apoyen y trabajen en estos ámbitos y les pregunte: ‘¿Qué es lo máximo que puedo hacer para prepararme, para tener acceso a estos recursos durante el mayor tiempo posible?’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Siga los planes de California ante una segunda presidencia de Trump\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Algo que destacaron los expertos con los que habló KQED: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">Los líderes de California han sido claros sobre su intención de desafiar las acciones y políticas de una segunda presidencia de Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo es más, estos planes han estado en preparación durante mucho tiempo, dijo Mahogany, señalando que “hay muchos de nosotros” en el gobierno local “que han estado pensando sobre las cosas y preparándose para … la posibilidad de que nos enfrentaríamos a otra administración anti-LGBTQ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante la primera presidencia de Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/california-vs-trump-lawsuits/\">California demandó a su administración en promedio cada 12 días\u003c/a> sobre temas que van desde la inmigración hasta el medio ambiente. Ahora, en vísperas de un segundo mandato, el fiscal general del estado, Rob Bonta, dijo que California ha “pensado en todas las posibilidades de los ataques a nuestros valores, nuestra gente, nuestro estado, y esperamos que ciertos litigios surjan o ciertas acciones provengan del gobierno federal y ciertos litigios que tomaremos en respuesta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay muchos escenarios diferentes sobre muchos temas diferentes, desde la inmigración hasta el medio ambiente, desde los derechos civiles hasta la seguridad de las armas”, dijo Bonta. “La lista es larga, pero estamos preparados”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temprano, de Equality California, dijo que “afortunadamente en los últimos años, California ya ha promulgado algunas de las protecciones más fuertes, protecciones legales y apoyos para las personas LGBTQ, y en concreto, las personas trans en toda la nación.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Así que si va a estar en cualquier lugar de este país durante la administración Trump como una persona queer y especialmente trans, California es el lugar más seguro y más afirmativo de la nación para estar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany hizo hincapié en que esta planeación se está llevando a nivel local, así como en todo el estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aquí en San Francisco, la Oficina de Iniciativas Transgénero está organizando conversaciones con otras organizaciones de transgénero de la ciudad para averiguar cuáles son las necesidades, qué dice y siente la gente, y cómo podemos afrontar los próximos cuatro años», explicó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Que quede claro que \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/16/california-remains-the-worlds-5th-largest-economy/\">California es la quinta economía del mundo\u003c/a>”, dijo Mahogany. “Tenemos mucho poder aquí, y no deberíamos tener miedo de utilizarlo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Por último, no se desespere, aunque en estos momentos le parezca mucho pedir\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Todos los activistas con los que habló KQED reconocieron el profundo dolor y la aflicción que sienten muchas personas de la comunidad en estos momentos, y que es importante no forzarse a aceptar nada si aún no se está preparado para ello. Pero Overholt dijo que, como organización, Positive Images quiere transmitir que “no se ha perdido toda esperanza”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos esperan momentos oscuros”, afirmó. “Pero habrá claridad, y vamos a seguir trabajando, y vamos a permanecer aquí. Llevamos aquí 34 años. Vamos a estar aquí al menos otros 34 más”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esto no quiere decir que no vaya a ser difícil, pero la perseverancia va a ser la clave aquí”, dijo Overholt. “Sabemos que los efectos emocionales de un trauma, un trauma colectivo compartido como éste, son difíciles. Pero hay recursos, y esperamos que la gente pueda apoyarse en ellos para encontrar algo de tranquilidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuestra comunidad ha sido fuerte y ha demostrado que en muchos momentos en los que hemos estado solos, hemos tenido éxito debido al apoyo de la comunidad que está detrás de este movimiento”, dijo Reyes Salinas. 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"content": "\u003cp>The push to ban transgender athletes from competitive sports reached San Jose State University this year. In September, the co-captain of the women’s volleyball team joined a lawsuit targeting trans women in college sports — including one of her own teammates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5297142031&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015114/anti-trans-lawsuit-seeks-ban-san-jose-state-volleyball-player-tournament\">Anti-Trans Suit Seeking to Ban San José State Volleyball Player Is Denied on Appeal\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/42549609/inside-san-jose-state-university-2024-volleyball-season-gender-fairness-safety\">Inside San Jose State’s polarizing volleyball season \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there are errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:36] \u003c/em>Natalia, I wonder if we can start with just this San Jose State volleyball game that you went to, which I’m very curious about and just set the scene for me. Like, what was that like? What was the mood at this volleyball game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:53] \u003c/em>Yeah, it was just a volleyball game for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Speaker 1: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:58] \u003c/em>Natalia Navarro is a news anchor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:02] \u003c/em>I hadn’t been to a volleyball game in a really long time, so I was surprised, like how exciting it was. It’s a very, like fast paced game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:16] \u003c/em>When I went it was San Jose State playing University of New Mexico. And it was just exciting. There were really they’re both making points. It was really cool. There are a good amount of spectators there. You know, people’s parents and other students. And for the most part, it looked like any other game. There were some security people there sort of escorting players around and like making sure that people didn’t go in this one area where the players were. There were several students there holding signs in support of the team. There was one protester who was holding a sign that said Protect women’s Sports to oppose the fact that this team was playing with all of its players there. But other than that, it was it was a normal college sports game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:14] \u003c/em>Which is really interesting because that is different from how it seems like the rest of the country is talking about San Jose State right now. And I want to talk about how that all started. I mean, the person who really thrust the team into the spotlight was San Jose State’s volleyball team, co-captain Brooke Slusser. Who is Brooke Slusser?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:41] \u003c/em>Yeah, she’s like you said, one of the co-captains of the team. She’s played on San Jose State for a couple of years. She played at a different college before that. So at some point earlier this year, Brooke Slusser, according to her court documents, here’s rumors that one of her teammates is trans. According to these documents, she’s really confused and upset about this information, but mostly keeps it to herself until an article comes out on an opinion site about this player. And then they have a conversation and which, according to Brooke, this player tells her that she’s trans. And Brooke says that she doesn’t want the player to be bullied but doesn’t think that she should be playing on the team. Brooks-lasure was reached out to by this group called Icons. It stands for Independent Counsel on Women’s Sports. They’re essentially an anti-trans advocacy group who is funding Reilly Gaines lawsuit against the NCAA to try to keep trans players out of the NCAA. A rally gains as a former college swimmer and now an anti-trans advocate. And so they approached Brooke Slusser and brought her in as an additional plaintiff on this lawsuit. And she, you know, told the court that her teammate is trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:12] \u003c/em>So this happened in September, right? When Slusser joined this already existing lawsuit brought forward first by a former college swimmer named Riley Gaines. What is this lawsuit about exactly? What is it, I guess ultimately seeking to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:31] \u003c/em>The overall relief that they are seeking is really quite broad. The lawsuit is seeking to ban trans athletes from college sports, trying to get the court to agree that including them violates Title nine, which is the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex and educational settings. Also to go back into the history of things and rescind any records or wins from trans athletes. It will require sex verification to make sure there are no trans athletes playing. This would really change how Title nine is being used in in terms of trans bans and stuff like that in courts. Right now, courts have allowed a lot of states to ban trans people from sports. What this would do if this went the way of the plaintiffs is it would say not only can they ban trans people from sports, they actually have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:39] \u003c/em>And I mean, why exactly did Slusser get involved in this lawsuit in the first place? What does she say about her teammates specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:49] \u003c/em>I reached out to her to talk about this. You never go back to me, but she did talk on Megan Kelley’s podcast. She’s talk on Fox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:58] \u003c/em>Everything in my body was like, this is so wrong. It’s not fair. It shouldn’t be happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:04] \u003c/em>She says that her teammate, who she says is trans, is more physically imposing than her, her fellow teammates, that she just has an unbeatable power that puts her and her teammates at risk of injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:20] \u003c/em>Again, the power behind this swing is just so different. And if you’re not completely prepared for it, you will get blown up. And that’s the scariest part, because that could end your career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:31] \u003c/em>She’s saying that, you know, having a player that was born male makes it unfair for her and also dangerous for her and her teammates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:41] \u003c/em>And so I think at the end of the day, I just got so far up, I was like, I want to be able to make this change for other people coming into collegiate sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:48] \u003c/em>I mean, Slusser is alleging, first of all, that she has a trans teammate. But has this teammate said anything publicly about this or her gender identity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:59] \u003c/em>So your listeners will notice that we are not saying her name, and that’s because she hasn’t said anything publicly about her gender identity. San Jose State has not provided any information about her gender identity. They cite privacy laws and they have maintained that all of their players meet NCAA, a Mountain West Conference rules and that’s all they will say about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:24] \u003c/em>But we do know who she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:27] \u003c/em>Yes, we do know who she is. Her name has been very much out there. The lawsuits and the articles on conservative sites that Brooke Slusser and others have commented on frequently use him pronouns for this player and generally talk pretty directly about her physicality, etc.. We’re not doing that, but it’s definitely out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:56] \u003c/em>I mean, what do we know about whether Brooke’s allegations are, in fact, true? Like, does this player have any clear physical advantages compared to her teammates?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:08] \u003c/em>It seems like no. This player has played for San Jose State for a couple of years, has played at a previous university, and there were no problems that I could find. One of the things that Brooke Slusser and others have said is that, you know, she’s she’s so physically imposing and yet she’s about six one. I looked at the roster for the team and more than half a dozen of the players on that team are above six feet. Volleyball players on the whole are usually quite tall. She’s not even the tallest one on San Jose State University’s team. I talked to a lot of experts who deal with inclusion in sports and who, you know, have read the science and they say that there is no evidence that there is any sort of universal advantage that trans women have in sports, especially once they’ve transitioned medically. Oftentimes, trans women have lower testosterone levels than cisgender women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:18] \u003c/em>According to Slusser, her teammates spikes the ball as fast as 80mph, which would make her as strong as some of the best men’s players ever. But ESPN analyzed the speed of the teammates spikes in five different games, including ones that went viral. ESPN found that the average speed of those spikes was just over 50mph, and the fastest was estimated at 64mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:54] \u003c/em>So, Natalia, I mean, how do trans women join a college sports team? Are there special rules that they have to follow in order to qualify?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:04] \u003c/em>Yeah, there are. In terms of the NCAA, who manages most college sports teams, their rules generally are that someone has to have medically transitioned, which usually means taking of hormones like like testosterone or estrogen, usually. And they have to have been on that for a certain amount of time. The rules are pretty complicated and spread out to various things for various different sports. But generally, those who have medically transitioned can join sports. Sometimes that means the NCAA will require them to do particular hormone checks throughout the year. But current NCAA rules say that they can play in the sport that aligns with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:50] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, and how many people are we actually talking about? How many trans players are actually participating right now in college sports? What do we know about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:58] \u003c/em>Overall, trans people are a really small portion of the American population. And trans athletes are even smaller portion of that small portion. And the ones that make it to the level of Division one, college sports, it’s kind of very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>So Brooke Slusser and the other people behind the lawsuit are basically arguing that the NCAA rules allowing trans athletes to play violate civil rights law, in particular, Title IX. What are the arguments around that? What have you heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:34] \u003c/em>Yeah. I reached out to the plaintiffs lawyers, Brooks Loesser’s, lawyers and others on the NCAA lawsuit, and none of them got back to me for comment. But from the lawsuit, basically they do say exactly that. They just say allowing trans people to play on women’s sports teams in itself violates Title IX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:54] \u003c/em>On the other hand, you did talk with people who disagree with that interpretation of Title IX, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:00] \u003c/em>Yeah, exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:02] \u003c/em>This would just lead to an incredible marginalization of an already marginalized group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:08] \u003c/em>I talked to a lawyer at the National Women’s Law Center show, Shiwali Patel. She’s a title IX expert, and she had not great things to say about this lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:20] \u003c/em>Title IX can’t be used to justify exclusion of a vulnerable group of students from equal educational opportunities based on how they look or play or who they are. What these plaintiffs are seeking to do is to really turn Title nine on its head and to remove it from its purpose of equal educational opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:39] \u003c/em>She says that this is not really doing anything to protect women’s sports. There’s a lot less access to facilities. There is a lot less funding, there’s a lot less research in order to to prevent injury. Like there’s a lot of stuff here that needs to be done in terms of protecting women in sports. And she says that none of that has anything to do with kicking trans people out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:06] \u003c/em>There are well-documented actual issues when it comes to gender inequity in sport that if they were to put their resources and time into that, they could be fighting to achieve gender equity. This is not one of them, you know, and trying to exclude trans women and girls from women and girls sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:23] \u003c/em>I know you talked to people who think that banning trans women from sports is part of this larger effort to restrict LGBTQ rights more broadly. What do you hear from people you spoke to about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:36] \u003c/em>I talked to Erin Reid, who is an independent journalist who covers anti-trans legislation all over the country. And she had a really interesting thought about this, that it really isn’t about any sort of particular advantage, that it’s just about discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erin Reed: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:56] \u003c/em>To be clear, you know, we are seeing bans not just in, you know, heavy impact sports, but we’re also seeing bans on transgender athletes and sports like chess and darts and fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:10] \u003c/em>And she thought that it was interesting that this is folk focusing on sports because she mentioned that she has heard from conservative pundits that sports is actually an easy way to get people who are against the LGBTQ community. It’s an easy entry point for them to start talking about trans issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erin Reed: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:34] \u003c/em>And many of the same states that started with transgender participation in sports, in fact, not just many. Virtually all of the states, with the exception of Alaska, have gone on to pass gender affirming caravans for trans youth, have gone on to pass other bills like don’t say gay, don’t say trans. We see book bans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:51] \u003c/em>I mean, I can’t imagine. What the last few months must have been like for the San Jose State volleyball team. I mean, how often did this issue come up for San Jose State this season?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:06] \u003c/em>It was kind of a constant. Several universities forfeited their games against San Jose State and that’s part of what made the news so big because they refused to play the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:21] \u003c/em>And to be clear, these teams were forfeiting in protest of this teammate that Slusser alleges is trans. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:29] \u003c/em>That’s, I think, a safe assumption. But we don’t know that for sure. Most of the the universities have not said that per se.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sia Li’ili’i: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:40] \u003c/em>At the beginning of this season, brave women across our conference were meeting with their coaches and school administration, telling them that they would not play against San Jose State\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:49] \u003c/em>But for example, in in the case of the University of Nevada, Reno, several of the players from that team attended a rally put on by icons, which is that anti-trans organization that’s funding the lawsuit against the NCAA and spoke about the fact that they are against this supposedly trans player being a part of the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sia Li’ili’i: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:12] \u003c/em>I never expected to be blindsided having to compete against a male athlete. I will continue to fight for my friends, my family, and the next generation of female athletes. All female athletes deserve to be protected at every level and every age. This is unfair and it has to be stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:36] \u003c/em>The team while having a obviously a very tough season. And I can’t even imagine what it would be like to be on that team right now. I’m sure that the conversations that are happening are really hard. But they were able to make it to the postseason. And just this past week, they played at the Mountain West Conference tournament and had another high profile forfeit from Boise State. But that got them into the into the final match against Colorado. And they did lose that match, but they made it all the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:14] \u003c/em>What if folks from the team said about what this season has been like for them? I mean, sponsor other teammates, the coaches? Have they said anything publicly about what this season has been like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:25] \u003c/em>You know, the whole team has been pretty tight lipped about this. I get the sense that they’re being told by the university and maybe probably by legal advisers at the university to not say anything publicly. So I did not get any responses to my questions about these things from players and from coaches. They were never available after games to talk. Brooks-lasure has talked about, obviously the the lawsuit itself, but we don’t have that much of an insight into what the daily life is and what the daily practices are like for this team. If you took away all of the context and you were just watching them play, I don’t think you would really know that all of this stuff was going on because the two players, Brooks Lesser and the teammate that she says is trans, that she is in court trying to get out of her team. They are playing right next to each other and they’re, you know, for doing pretty well. They won the game. But I went to go see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:33] \u003c/em>San Jose State’s women’s volleyball season has ended, right? It ended last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:40] \u003c/em>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:41] \u003c/em>But how do you think this story could still have ripple effects even beyond San Jose State?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:47] \u003c/em>Yeah, I think it is really much bigger than San Jose State. And when we’re talking about sort of trickle down effects of this this sort of lawsuit and this sort of larger political conversation about trans people in sports, is that it can affect people of all gender identities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:53] \u003c/em>Yeah, it was just a volleyball game for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Speaker 1: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:58] \u003c/em>Natalia Navarro is a news anchor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:02] \u003c/em>I hadn’t been to a volleyball game in a really long time, so I was surprised, like how exciting it was. It’s a very, like fast paced game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:16] \u003c/em>When I went it was San Jose State playing University of New Mexico. And it was just exciting. There were really they’re both making points. It was really cool. There are a good amount of spectators there. You know, people’s parents and other students. And for the most part, it looked like any other game. There were some security people there sort of escorting players around and like making sure that people didn’t go in this one area where the players were. There were several students there holding signs in support of the team. There was one protester who was holding a sign that said Protect women’s Sports to oppose the fact that this team was playing with all of its players there. But other than that, it was it was a normal college sports game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:14] \u003c/em>Which is really interesting because that is different from how it seems like the rest of the country is talking about San Jose State right now. And I want to talk about how that all started. I mean, the person who really thrust the team into the spotlight was San Jose State’s volleyball team, co-captain Brooke Slusser. Who is Brooke Slusser?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:41] \u003c/em>Yeah, she’s like you said, one of the co-captains of the team. She’s played on San Jose State for a couple of years. She played at a different college before that. So at some point earlier this year, Brooke Slusser, according to her court documents, here’s rumors that one of her teammates is trans. According to these documents, she’s really confused and upset about this information, but mostly keeps it to herself until an article comes out on an opinion site about this player. And then they have a conversation and which, according to Brooke, this player tells her that she’s trans. And Brooke says that she doesn’t want the player to be bullied but doesn’t think that she should be playing on the team. Brooks-lasure was reached out to by this group called Icons. It stands for Independent Counsel on Women’s Sports. They’re essentially an anti-trans advocacy group who is funding Reilly Gaines lawsuit against the NCAA to try to keep trans players out of the NCAA. A rally gains as a former college swimmer and now an anti-trans advocate. And so they approached Brooke Slusser and brought her in as an additional plaintiff on this lawsuit. And she, you know, told the court that her teammate is trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:12] \u003c/em>So this happened in September, right? When Slusser joined this already existing lawsuit brought forward first by a former college swimmer named Riley Gaines. What is this lawsuit about exactly? What is it, I guess ultimately seeking to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:31] \u003c/em>The overall relief that they are seeking is really quite broad. The lawsuit is seeking to ban trans athletes from college sports, trying to get the court to agree that including them violates Title nine, which is the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex and educational settings. Also to go back into the history of things and rescind any records or wins from trans athletes. It will require sex verification to make sure there are no trans athletes playing. This would really change how Title nine is being used in in terms of trans bans and stuff like that in courts. Right now, courts have allowed a lot of states to ban trans people from sports. What this would do if this went the way of the plaintiffs is it would say not only can they ban trans people from sports, they actually have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:39] \u003c/em>And I mean, why exactly did Slusser get involved in this lawsuit in the first place? What does she say about her teammates specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:49] \u003c/em>I reached out to her to talk about this. You never go back to me, but she did talk on Megan Kelley’s podcast. She’s talk on Fox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:58] \u003c/em>Everything in my body was like, this is so wrong. It’s not fair. It shouldn’t be happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:04] \u003c/em>She says that her teammate, who she says is trans, is more physically imposing than her, her fellow teammates, that she just has an unbeatable power that puts her and her teammates at risk of injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:20] \u003c/em>Again, the power behind this swing is just so different. And if you’re not completely prepared for it, you will get blown up. And that’s the scariest part, because that could end your career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:31] \u003c/em>She’s saying that, you know, having a player that was born male makes it unfair for her and also dangerous for her and her teammates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:41] \u003c/em>And so I think at the end of the day, I just got so far up, I was like, I want to be able to make this change for other people coming into collegiate sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:48] \u003c/em>I mean, Slusser is alleging, first of all, that she has a trans teammate. But has this teammate said anything publicly about this or her gender identity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:59] \u003c/em>So your listeners will notice that we are not saying her name, and that’s because she hasn’t said anything publicly about her gender identity. San Jose State has not provided any information about her gender identity. They cite privacy laws and they have maintained that all of their players meet NCAA, a Mountain West Conference rules and that’s all they will say about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:24] \u003c/em>But we do know who she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:27] \u003c/em>Yes, we do know who she is. Her name has been very much out there. The lawsuits and the articles on conservative sites that Brooke Slusser and others have commented on frequently use him pronouns for this player and generally talk pretty directly about her physicality, etc.. We’re not doing that, but it’s definitely out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:56] \u003c/em>I mean, what do we know about whether Brooke’s allegations are, in fact, true? Like, does this player have any clear physical advantages compared to her teammates?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:08] \u003c/em>It seems like no. This player has played for San Jose State for a couple of years, has played at a previous university, and there were no problems that I could find. One of the things that Brooke Slusser and others have said is that, you know, she’s she’s so physically imposing and yet she’s about six one. I looked at the roster for the team and more than half a dozen of the players on that team are above six feet. Volleyball players on the whole are usually quite tall. She’s not even the tallest one on San Jose State University’s team. I talked to a lot of experts who deal with inclusion in sports and who, you know, have read the science and they say that there is no evidence that there is any sort of universal advantage that trans women have in sports, especially once they’ve transitioned medically. Oftentimes, trans women have lower testosterone levels than cisgender women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:18] \u003c/em>According to Slusser, her teammates spikes the ball as fast as 80mph, which would make her as strong as some of the best men’s players ever. But ESPN analyzed the speed of the teammates spikes in five different games, including ones that went viral. ESPN found that the average speed of those spikes was just over 50mph, and the fastest was estimated at 64mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:54] \u003c/em>So, Natalia, I mean, how do trans women join a college sports team? Are there special rules that they have to follow in order to qualify?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:04] \u003c/em>Yeah, there are. In terms of the NCAA, who manages most college sports teams, their rules generally are that someone has to have medically transitioned, which usually means taking of hormones like like testosterone or estrogen, usually. And they have to have been on that for a certain amount of time. The rules are pretty complicated and spread out to various things for various different sports. But generally, those who have medically transitioned can join sports. Sometimes that means the NCAA will require them to do particular hormone checks throughout the year. But current NCAA rules say that they can play in the sport that aligns with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:50] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, and how many people are we actually talking about? How many trans players are actually participating right now in college sports? What do we know about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:58] \u003c/em>Overall, trans people are a really small portion of the American population. And trans athletes are even smaller portion of that small portion. And the ones that make it to the level of Division one, college sports, it’s kind of very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>So Brooke Slusser and the other people behind the lawsuit are basically arguing that the NCAA rules allowing trans athletes to play violate civil rights law, in particular, Title IX. What are the arguments around that? What have you heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:34] \u003c/em>Yeah. I reached out to the plaintiffs lawyers, Brooks Loesser’s, lawyers and others on the NCAA lawsuit, and none of them got back to me for comment. But from the lawsuit, basically they do say exactly that. They just say allowing trans people to play on women’s sports teams in itself violates Title IX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:54] \u003c/em>On the other hand, you did talk with people who disagree with that interpretation of Title IX, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:00] \u003c/em>Yeah, exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:02] \u003c/em>This would just lead to an incredible marginalization of an already marginalized group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:08] \u003c/em>I talked to a lawyer at the National Women’s Law Center show, Shiwali Patel. She’s a title IX expert, and she had not great things to say about this lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:20] \u003c/em>Title IX can’t be used to justify exclusion of a vulnerable group of students from equal educational opportunities based on how they look or play or who they are. What these plaintiffs are seeking to do is to really turn Title nine on its head and to remove it from its purpose of equal educational opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:39] \u003c/em>She says that this is not really doing anything to protect women’s sports. There’s a lot less access to facilities. There is a lot less funding, there’s a lot less research in order to to prevent injury. Like there’s a lot of stuff here that needs to be done in terms of protecting women in sports. And she says that none of that has anything to do with kicking trans people out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:06] \u003c/em>There are well-documented actual issues when it comes to gender inequity in sport that if they were to put their resources and time into that, they could be fighting to achieve gender equity. This is not one of them, you know, and trying to exclude trans women and girls from women and girls sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:23] \u003c/em>I know you talked to people who think that banning trans women from sports is part of this larger effort to restrict LGBTQ rights more broadly. What do you hear from people you spoke to about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:36] \u003c/em>I talked to Erin Reid, who is an independent journalist who covers anti-trans legislation all over the country. And she had a really interesting thought about this, that it really isn’t about any sort of particular advantage, that it’s just about discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erin Reed: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:56] \u003c/em>To be clear, you know, we are seeing bans not just in, you know, heavy impact sports, but we’re also seeing bans on transgender athletes and sports like chess and darts and fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:10] \u003c/em>And she thought that it was interesting that this is folk focusing on sports because she mentioned that she has heard from conservative pundits that sports is actually an easy way to get people who are against the LGBTQ community. It’s an easy entry point for them to start talking about trans issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erin Reed: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:34] \u003c/em>And many of the same states that started with transgender participation in sports, in fact, not just many. Virtually all of the states, with the exception of Alaska, have gone on to pass gender affirming caravans for trans youth, have gone on to pass other bills like don’t say gay, don’t say trans. We see book bans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:51] \u003c/em>I mean, I can’t imagine. What the last few months must have been like for the San Jose State volleyball team. I mean, how often did this issue come up for San Jose State this season?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:06] \u003c/em>It was kind of a constant. Several universities forfeited their games against San Jose State and that’s part of what made the news so big because they refused to play the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:21] \u003c/em>And to be clear, these teams were forfeiting in protest of this teammate that Slusser alleges is trans. 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Most of the the universities have not said that per se.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sia Li’ili’i: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:40] \u003c/em>At the beginning of this season, brave women across our conference were meeting with their coaches and school administration, telling them that they would not play against San Jose State\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:49] \u003c/em>But for example, in in the case of the University of Nevada, Reno, several of the players from that team attended a rally put on by icons, which is that anti-trans organization that’s funding the lawsuit against the NCAA and spoke about the fact that they are against this supposedly trans player being a part of the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sia Li’ili’i: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:12] \u003c/em>I never expected to be blindsided having to compete against a male athlete. I will continue to fight for my friends, my family, and the next generation of female athletes. All female athletes deserve to be protected at every level and every age. This is unfair and it has to be stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:36] \u003c/em>The team while having a obviously a very tough season. And I can’t even imagine what it would be like to be on that team right now. I’m sure that the conversations that are happening are really hard. But they were able to make it to the postseason. And just this past week, they played at the Mountain West Conference tournament and had another high profile forfeit from Boise State. But that got them into the into the final match against Colorado. And they did lose that match, but they made it all the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:14] \u003c/em>What if folks from the team said about what this season has been like for them? I mean, sponsor other teammates, the coaches? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:40 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a judge’s decision not to ban a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose-state-university\">San José State\u003c/a> volleyball player from this week’s Mountain West Conference tournament, the latest turn in a case that has thrust the university into a nationwide debate over transgender athletes in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit filed by Spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser, among others, targeted a player on the team who plaintiffs say is transgender. They argued that letting her play would be sex discrimination, but U.S. District Judge S. Kato Crews on Monday denied their request for an injunction, citing a 2020 Supreme Court ruling noting that federal laws against sex discrimination bar discrimination based on gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews also said the plaintiffs should have filed earlier and did not show that they would suffer irreparable harm from the SJSU athlete playing in the Mountain West tournament, which begins Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slusser and the other plaintiffs immediately filed an emergency appeal, but one day later, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plaintiffs’ claims appear to present a substantial question and may have merit,” the appeals court said in its ruling. “But plaintiffs have not established clear entitlement to relief, and however potentially meritorious, their showing does not rise to the level of clear entitlement under the appropriate standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team prepares for the serve from their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, at their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Civil rights experts had said keeping the player out of the tournament would violate the federal law, Title IX, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936552/how-new-title-ix-rules-could-affect-californias-transgender-and-nonbinary-students\">prohibits sex-based discrimination\u003c/a> and sexual harassment in educational settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trans students have protections under Title IX, and they have protections under the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center. “It’s just kind of one tactic that we’ve seen extremists apply in trying to exclude trans people from civil rights protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the SJSU player being targeted in this lawsuit has never spoken publicly about her gender identity, KQED is not identifying her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Monday, the university said it “will continue to support its student-athletes and reject discrimination in all forms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All San José State University student-athletes are eligible to participate in their sports under NCAA and Mountain West Conference rules,” the statement said. “We are gratified that the Court rejected an eleventh-hour attempt to change those rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University students (from left) Javier Ruiz, Ollie Harter and Louie McDonough hold handmade signs supporting the Spartans Volleyball team at their game in San Jose on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This lawsuit is just the latest legal action involving the SJSU volleyball team. Slusser is also a plaintiff in another suit challenging a NCAA policy that allows trans women to play under some circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Slusser joined that suit led by former University of Kentucky swimmer and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, four teams have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007485/san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete\">refused to play the Spartans\u003c/a> in apparent solidarity with Slusser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-trans advocacy group ICONS funds both lawsuits and claims that trans women have an unfair advantage that puts other players in danger of injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that transgender women who medically transition have any universal athletic advantages over their cisgender counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits and forfeits have drawn the attention of conservative media outlets, in particular, and have fired up Republicans, including President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking on Fox News in October, he said he plans to ban all transgender women from competing in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The controversy is being mirrored in secondary school athletics. Stone Ridge Christian High School in Merced could face sanctions from California’s high school sports governing body after it forfeited a playoff girls’ volleyball game on Saturday against San Francisco Waldorf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do at Stone Ridge Christian Academy reflects Biblical truth,” Julie Fagundes, campus administrator at Stone Ridge Christian Academy, said in an emailed statement. “Girls must compete against girls in sports because that is how God created us and SRC will not be complicit in a false message about sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fagundes sent a letter to parents claiming Waldorf has “a male athlete playing for their team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really, really hurtful, I think, to take such a tiny little minority community and target them cruelly and attempting to ban them from accessing things that not just that they enjoy, but that actually help them develop into better people,” said Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation has a policy stating all students are permitted to participate in gender-separated sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007485 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Waldorf has not responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for civil rights and trans inclusion say there is an essential flaw in arguments that excluding trans athletes protects the rights and safety of women and girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can actually go to Riley Gaines’ Twitter, and she’ll specifically say that it was never about [competitive] advantages,” said independent journalist Erin Reed, who covers anti-trans legislation nationwide. “And that’s why you see bans in things like chess and darts and fishing. It’s not because of any sort of hypothetical advantage that a trans person might have. It’s because it’s all about exclusion, period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel is concerned that the bans sought by these lawsuits and politicians like Trump will actually put cisgender women and girls more at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That really contradicts Title IX’s broad purpose and does nothing to protect gender equity in sports, and instead subjects women and girls to more harm, to gender policing, to scrutiny as to whether or not they are a ‘real woman or girl,’” Patel said. “And we’ve seen, especially from professional sports, the impact on Black and brown women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, this summer, a Utah high school athletics association \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sports-education-utah-school-athletics-government-and-politics-dc6451adde255f47e31229f502f773ad\">secretly investigated a female athlete\u003c/a> — without notifying her or her parents — over questions about whether she was transgender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, more than 20 states have laws banning transgender students from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Slusser is also a plaintiff in another suit challenging a NCAA policy that allows trans women to play under some circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Slusser joined that suit led by former University of Kentucky swimmer and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, four teams have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007485/san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete\">refused to play the Spartans\u003c/a> in apparent solidarity with Slusser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-trans advocacy group ICONS funds both lawsuits and claims that trans women have an unfair advantage that puts other players in danger of injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that transgender women who medically transition have any universal athletic advantages over their cisgender counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits and forfeits have drawn the attention of conservative media outlets, in particular, and have fired up Republicans, including President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking on Fox News in October, he said he plans to ban all transgender women from competing in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The controversy is being mirrored in secondary school athletics. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ringing in voters’ ears in the final weeks of the presidential campaign was the tagline: “Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the success of that part of its closing argument, the new Trump administration is likely to turn to policy affecting transgender people early in its tenure. The issue is mentioned twice in President-elect Donald Trump’s 20-point \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform\">“Agenda 47” platform\u003c/a>: #16 Cut funding to schools that teach “radical gender ideology”; and #17 “Keep men out of women’s sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about health care for transgender people? The Trump campaign and conservative think tanks offer several indications of how policy could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors is likely, says Jon Schweppe, policy director at the American Principles Project, a conservative political advocacy group that has advocated against transgender policy for years. “With adults, I think the American people are much less enthusiastic about a full ban [on gender affirming care], but with kids, they’re all about it,” Schweppe asserts. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/other/dashboard/gender-affirming-care-policy-tracker/\">About half of states\u003c/a> have enacted such a ban, although polls vary on how much or little the broader public supports these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also plans to curb access to gender transition by limiting insurance coverage. To do this, Republicans could take a page from the anti-abortion rights playbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely one of our goals is to create a Hyde Amendment for so-called gender-affirming care,” says Schweppe. The Hyde Amendment is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-hyde-amendment-and-coverage-for-abortion-services-under-medicaid-in-the-post-roe-era/#:~:text=Starting%20in%201977%2C%20the%20Hyde,result%20from%20rape%20or%20incest.\">1977 policy\u003c/a> that prohibits federal dollars from paying for abortion with limited exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t believe taxpayer funding should go towards that for minors or for adults. We’ve poll tested that, and we’re pretty confident that the American people agree,” Schweppe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hyde Amendment largely is responsible for how abortion came to operate outside of the usual health insurance system. Patients often pay in cash, either because they don’t have coverage for abortion, or because they don’t want an abortion on their medical record. In response, abortion funds were created to allow people who don’t have insurance coverage or the means to afford an abortion on their own to have access.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investment in ‘a political winner’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the presidential race alone, Republicans spent more than $46 million on the “Kamala is for they/them” message, according to a report by AdImpact shared with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has shown itself to be a political winner,” says Schweppe. Overall, the party spent $222 million on anti-trans and LGBTQ ads during the 2024 campaign. Democrats, in contrast, spent just under $29 million on LGBTQ ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some congressional Republicans are signaling their eagerness to turn anti-trans campaign messaging into lawmaking. Weeks before the new session begins, proposed laws and policies about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5196116/capitol-transgender-bathroom-ban-nancy-mace-sarah-mcbride\">bathroom access\u003c/a> have been crafted to take aim at incoming Rep. Sarah McBride D-Del., who will be the first transgender lawmaker in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic congressional candidate from Delaware Sarah McBride chats with State Sen. Dave Sokola (left) following a press conference on the steps of Delaware Legislative Hall on March 4, 2024, in Dover, Delaware. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Other promises and policies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Trump campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/president-trumps-plan-to-protect-children-from-left-wing-gender-insanity\">released a video\u003c/a> and outline of some policy steps Republicans would take “to protect children from left-wing gender insanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Trump promised to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ban gender-affirming care for youth nationally.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ban Medicare and Medicaid insurance coverage for gender-affirming care for patients of all ages and withhold federal funds from hospitals that provide the care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Enact consequences for schools and teachers that affirm transgender youth.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Trump also wants a Justice Department investigation into how drug companies and hospitals are providing gender-affirming care, and he will seek to pass a federal law saying Title 9 prohibits transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Matt Sharp of the Christian conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom says he’s hopeful that the Trump administration will enact policies establishing that “differences between men and women matter, and that states and schools and other places will be allowed to go back to common sense and to recognize those differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even supporters of access to gender-affirming care agree that restrictions are likely coming when Trump takes office. “It’s very clear that they have a coherent, anti-trans agenda that they’re going to pursue, so we’re preparing along multiple fronts,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/harper-seldin\">Harper Seldin\u003c/a>, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trans people saw all those ads, too, Seldin says. “Without in any way speculating on what that did or did not do to the ultimate result [of the election], I do think it creates a climate of fear for trans people,” he says. “I think it also creates a lot of permission for a climate of hate for people who are opposed to trans people. It really positions transgender people as the enemy of the regular American polity — and trans people are people, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A family with two adults and achild on one of the adults' shoulders see from behind, holding a sign that reads "Protect Trans Kids"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People outside the Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 6, 2022, protesting attacks against transgender kids. \u003ccite>(Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transgender young people in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although Trump’s policy goals when it comes to trans people would affect adults in some ways, the focus of a lot of conservative activism on this issue has centered on kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major American medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Endocrine Society support access to gender-affirming care for youth, which can range from using a child’s preferred pronouns to using puberty blocking medications and sex hormones. (Surgery is very rare for minors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/su/su7304a9.htm?s_cid=su7304a9_w\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3% of high school students describe themselves as transgender, although not all of them necessarily want medical interventions related to that identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC found trans students “experienced a higher prevalence of violence, poor mental health, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and unstable housing.” The report goes on to note that “having supportive families and peers, feeling connected to family and school, having affirmed name and pronouns used consistently by others, and having a sense of pride of identity are protective factors for transgender students that buffer the effects of minority stressors and promote better mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trevor Project, which runs a 24/7 crisis line for LGBTQ youth and answers calls from the 988 crisis line for this population, recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/25/nx-s1-5127347/more-trans-teens-attempted-suicide-after-states-passed-anti-trans-laws-a-study-shows\">published an analysis\u003c/a> finding that transgender youth were more likely to attempt suicide after their home state passed a ban on gender affirming care for youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the election, there was a 700% increase in calls to the crisis line, which marked the largest surge in daily contact ever, the Trevor Project wrote to NPR in a statement. Even though the volume has done down since Nov 6, “volume remains higher than normal as LGBTQ+ young people continue to reach out, overwhelmingly, to discuss concerns about the 2024 election results,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schweppe, of the American Principles Project, dismisses that data point, claiming research on suicide risk in this population is exaggerated. “We are diametrically opposed to what their goals are,” he says of the Trevor Project, whose work he described as indoctrination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if children may be suffering from gender dysphoria, he says, “we should be trying to help them identify with their with their biological sex, try to feel help them feel comfortable with their bodies, not tell them that their bodies are wrong, that the way God made them is wrong,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, the American Academy of Pediatrics notes in \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?autologincheck=redirected\">a policy statement\u003c/a> that conversion or reparative therapies “have been proven to be not only unsuccessful but also deleterious and are considered outside the mainstream of traditional medical practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The shifting legal landscape\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 4, before the next Trump presidential term begins in January, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth is constitutional, and by extension, the bans in 25 other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp of the Alliance Defending Freedom says he hopes that the high court will decide on the substance of the case. “Ultimately, we hope that it will rule in favor of these state laws and allow them to go into effect,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seldin of the ACLU, which represents the Tennessee transgender kids and families who brought the case, says it’s hard to predict what will happen after oral arguments, but that they’re prepared to “be flexible with what we need to do to meet the moment.” He says LGBTQ advocates are equally determined to keep fighting for the rights of transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the justices do hold that the bans are unconstitutional, conservative advocacy groups like the American Principles Project plan to “pursue other avenues to effectively shut down these gender clinics,” Schweppe says. That’s the overall goal, he adds. “I think we’ve been very transparent about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not worried about the difficulties of passing laws on transgender issues with narrow Republican majorities in the House and Senate. He points to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/nyregion/democrats-house-ny.html\">several Democrats\u003c/a> who argued in recent weeks that support for transgender people cost the party electoral wins, and who might cross party lines to support a bill on women’s sports, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The case that groups like ours are making to Republican leadership is that, not only is this the right thing to do and these are the right laws to pass, but they’re also of great political benefit,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely one of our goals is to create a Hyde Amendment for so-called gender-affirming care,” says Schweppe. The Hyde Amendment is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-hyde-amendment-and-coverage-for-abortion-services-under-medicaid-in-the-post-roe-era/#:~:text=Starting%20in%201977%2C%20the%20Hyde,result%20from%20rape%20or%20incest.\">1977 policy\u003c/a> that prohibits federal dollars from paying for abortion with limited exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t believe taxpayer funding should go towards that for minors or for adults. We’ve poll tested that, and we’re pretty confident that the American people agree,” Schweppe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hyde Amendment largely is responsible for how abortion came to operate outside of the usual health insurance system. Patients often pay in cash, either because they don’t have coverage for abortion, or because they don’t want an abortion on their medical record. In response, abortion funds were created to allow people who don’t have insurance coverage or the means to afford an abortion on their own to have access.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investment in ‘a political winner’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the presidential race alone, Republicans spent more than $46 million on the “Kamala is for they/them” message, according to a report by AdImpact shared with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has shown itself to be a political winner,” says Schweppe. Overall, the party spent $222 million on anti-trans and LGBTQ ads during the 2024 campaign. Democrats, in contrast, spent just under $29 million on LGBTQ ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some congressional Republicans are signaling their eagerness to turn anti-trans campaign messaging into lawmaking. Weeks before the new session begins, proposed laws and policies about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5196116/capitol-transgender-bathroom-ban-nancy-mace-sarah-mcbride\">bathroom access\u003c/a> have been crafted to take aim at incoming Rep. Sarah McBride D-Del., who will be the first transgender lawmaker in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic congressional candidate from Delaware Sarah McBride chats with State Sen. Dave Sokola (left) following a press conference on the steps of Delaware Legislative Hall on March 4, 2024, in Dover, Delaware. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Other promises and policies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Trump campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/president-trumps-plan-to-protect-children-from-left-wing-gender-insanity\">released a video\u003c/a> and outline of some policy steps Republicans would take “to protect children from left-wing gender insanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Trump promised to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ban gender-affirming care for youth nationally.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ban Medicare and Medicaid insurance coverage for gender-affirming care for patients of all ages and withhold federal funds from hospitals that provide the care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Enact consequences for schools and teachers that affirm transgender youth.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Trump also wants a Justice Department investigation into how drug companies and hospitals are providing gender-affirming care, and he will seek to pass a federal law saying Title 9 prohibits transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Matt Sharp of the Christian conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom says he’s hopeful that the Trump administration will enact policies establishing that “differences between men and women matter, and that states and schools and other places will be allowed to go back to common sense and to recognize those differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even supporters of access to gender-affirming care agree that restrictions are likely coming when Trump takes office. “It’s very clear that they have a coherent, anti-trans agenda that they’re going to pursue, so we’re preparing along multiple fronts,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/harper-seldin\">Harper Seldin\u003c/a>, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trans people saw all those ads, too, Seldin says. “Without in any way speculating on what that did or did not do to the ultimate result [of the election], I do think it creates a climate of fear for trans people,” he says. “I think it also creates a lot of permission for a climate of hate for people who are opposed to trans people. It really positions transgender people as the enemy of the regular American polity — and trans people are people, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A family with two adults and achild on one of the adults' shoulders see from behind, holding a sign that reads "Protect Trans Kids"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People outside the Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 6, 2022, protesting attacks against transgender kids. \u003ccite>(Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transgender young people in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although Trump’s policy goals when it comes to trans people would affect adults in some ways, the focus of a lot of conservative activism on this issue has centered on kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major American medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Endocrine Society support access to gender-affirming care for youth, which can range from using a child’s preferred pronouns to using puberty blocking medications and sex hormones. (Surgery is very rare for minors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/su/su7304a9.htm?s_cid=su7304a9_w\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3% of high school students describe themselves as transgender, although not all of them necessarily want medical interventions related to that identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC found trans students “experienced a higher prevalence of violence, poor mental health, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and unstable housing.” The report goes on to note that “having supportive families and peers, feeling connected to family and school, having affirmed name and pronouns used consistently by others, and having a sense of pride of identity are protective factors for transgender students that buffer the effects of minority stressors and promote better mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trevor Project, which runs a 24/7 crisis line for LGBTQ youth and answers calls from the 988 crisis line for this population, recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/25/nx-s1-5127347/more-trans-teens-attempted-suicide-after-states-passed-anti-trans-laws-a-study-shows\">published an analysis\u003c/a> finding that transgender youth were more likely to attempt suicide after their home state passed a ban on gender affirming care for youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the election, there was a 700% increase in calls to the crisis line, which marked the largest surge in daily contact ever, the Trevor Project wrote to NPR in a statement. Even though the volume has done down since Nov 6, “volume remains higher than normal as LGBTQ+ young people continue to reach out, overwhelmingly, to discuss concerns about the 2024 election results,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schweppe, of the American Principles Project, dismisses that data point, claiming research on suicide risk in this population is exaggerated. “We are diametrically opposed to what their goals are,” he says of the Trevor Project, whose work he described as indoctrination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if children may be suffering from gender dysphoria, he says, “we should be trying to help them identify with their with their biological sex, try to feel help them feel comfortable with their bodies, not tell them that their bodies are wrong, that the way God made them is wrong,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, the American Academy of Pediatrics notes in \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?autologincheck=redirected\">a policy statement\u003c/a> that conversion or reparative therapies “have been proven to be not only unsuccessful but also deleterious and are considered outside the mainstream of traditional medical practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The shifting legal landscape\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 4, before the next Trump presidential term begins in January, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth is constitutional, and by extension, the bans in 25 other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp of the Alliance Defending Freedom says he hopes that the high court will decide on the substance of the case. “Ultimately, we hope that it will rule in favor of these state laws and allow them to go into effect,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seldin of the ACLU, which represents the Tennessee transgender kids and families who brought the case, says it’s hard to predict what will happen after oral arguments, but that they’re prepared to “be flexible with what we need to do to meet the moment.” He says LGBTQ advocates are equally determined to keep fighting for the rights of transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the justices do hold that the bans are unconstitutional, conservative advocacy groups like the American Principles Project plan to “pursue other avenues to effectively shut down these gender clinics,” Schweppe says. 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"content": "\u003cp>For those gathered under umbrellas on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to remember the lives of transgender people lost to violence over the past year, the somber event felt not only like a vigil but like a preparation for struggles to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 150 people came together for the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11097157/for-transgender-day-of-remembrance-watch-video-of-2-undergoing-transitions\">Transgender Day of Remembrance\u003c/a> event, holding pink, blue and white trans pride flags, electric candles, and signs bearing the names and images of victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bad news is, this weather is very appropriate: we have a storm to weather,” trans activist KaiKai Bee Michaels said to attendees. “I think that we have some hard times ahead of us. That kind of sucks. It builds strength. We have a lot of work to do. And I think we’re going to do that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender Day of Remembrance comes at a frightening time for the community as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014337/what-can-trans-folks-do-to-prepare-for-another-trump-administration\">braces for a second Donald Trump presidency\u003c/a>. Throughout the 2024 campaign, trans people were a target of Trump and the Republican Party’s culture war rhetoric — stoking fears about trans women in sports, promising to pull federal funding from hospitals that perform gender-affirming care, and accusing schools of sexualizing children by speaking with them about gender identity and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) \u003ca href=\"https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1484\">announced\u003c/a> that Capitol Hill restrooms and changing rooms would be restricted by “biological sex,” essentially barring trans people from using facilities that match their gender identity — just two weeks after Sarah McBride (D–R.I.) was elected as the first trans member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California prepares to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">lead the fight\u003c/a> against many of Trump’s political promises, San Francisco will also likely be at the forefront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a> makes it a place many trans folks come to when they don’t feel safe in their hometowns, according to Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Ruiz listens to speakers during a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because they are not able to access the health care that they need, families have trans kids who live in states where their state legislatures are enforcing bans on health care, bans on sports, or even the ability for them to transition socially in schools,” she told KQED. “They’re making plans to move to places like San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event held Wednesday honored trans people who have died due to violence and oppression. Its organizers said it was a space to “remember, grieve, and heal — while also imagining a future of safety and liberation for trans communities,” according to a post on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCnVbRSlVq/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first Trans Day of Remembrance that Susan Spencer, 77, has attended. She said that recent events had made it important for her to show up in support of trans members of her church, St. Aidan’s Episcopal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the laws that have been passed. It is the deaths that have occurred. It is the abuse on the streets of people,” Spencer told KQED. “So many things that aren’t allowing people to be free and to be who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance hold candles in the air in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the country, 36 trans and gender-expansive people have been killed in acts of violence in the past year, and a similar number died in 2023, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrcs-2024-epidemic-of-violence-report-fatal-violence-against-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-people-continues-with-black-trans-women-comprising-nearly-half-of-the-deaths\">Human Rights Campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes Michelle Henry, who was 25 years old when she was found dead in a downtown San Francisco residence in May, according to an SFPD news release. The death was ruled a homicide, and the medical examiner found that Henry had suffered \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=crime&id=333324\">multiple stab wounds and was strangled\u003c/a>, according to the \u003cem>Bay Area Reporter\u003c/em>, which reported that police did not have evidence the killing was motivated by hate\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany said Henry grew up in San Francisco and became well-known within the local trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was formerly homeless, was able to engage in services, was housed, was a participant in the S.F. LGBT Center’s youth program,” she told KQED. “I think people were really excited for the progress that she had made in her life and for the life that waited for her ahead. For her life to be cut short at 25, in a very violent way, was really disturbing for a lot of people here in San Francisco, in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990260/a-conversation-with-banko-browns-chosen-family\">Banko Brown\u003c/a>, a Black trans man, was shot and killed by a security guard at a Walgreens store in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that for many of us today, Trans Day of Remembrance, is a really tough time,” Mahogany said during the rally. “Many of us know people who have passed, many of us know people who have passed due to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014337 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1258626528.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that these deaths are a reminder of the dangers that anti-trans rhetoric carries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her hope is for the city to rally around the trans community and defy the fear-mongering and divisive language coming from prominent Republican representatives and right-wing interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘We continue to fight back against anti-trans rhetoric or any kind of rhetoric that seeks to divide us,” she told KQED. “Divide and conquer has proven a very effective strategy. It is the way that fascism comes to the front, but it’s also a way in which those who are powerful, those with a lot of money, those with interests in keeping the working class and the middle-class populace down — that’s the way that they maintain their power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt\">\u003cem>Brian Watt\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender Day of Remembrance comes at a frightening time for the community as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014337/what-can-trans-folks-do-to-prepare-for-another-trump-administration\">braces for a second Donald Trump presidency\u003c/a>. Throughout the 2024 campaign, trans people were a target of Trump and the Republican Party’s culture war rhetoric — stoking fears about trans women in sports, promising to pull federal funding from hospitals that perform gender-affirming care, and accusing schools of sexualizing children by speaking with them about gender identity and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) \u003ca href=\"https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1484\">announced\u003c/a> that Capitol Hill restrooms and changing rooms would be restricted by “biological sex,” essentially barring trans people from using facilities that match their gender identity — just two weeks after Sarah McBride (D–R.I.) was elected as the first trans member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California prepares to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">lead the fight\u003c/a> against many of Trump’s political promises, San Francisco will also likely be at the forefront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a> makes it a place many trans folks come to when they don’t feel safe in their hometowns, according to Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Ruiz listens to speakers during a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because they are not able to access the health care that they need, families have trans kids who live in states where their state legislatures are enforcing bans on health care, bans on sports, or even the ability for them to transition socially in schools,” she told KQED. “They’re making plans to move to places like San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event held Wednesday honored trans people who have died due to violence and oppression. Its organizers said it was a space to “remember, grieve, and heal — while also imagining a future of safety and liberation for trans communities,” according to a post on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCnVbRSlVq/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first Trans Day of Remembrance that Susan Spencer, 77, has attended. She said that recent events had made it important for her to show up in support of trans members of her church, St. Aidan’s Episcopal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the laws that have been passed. It is the deaths that have occurred. It is the abuse on the streets of people,” Spencer told KQED. “So many things that aren’t allowing people to be free and to be who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance hold candles in the air in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the country, 36 trans and gender-expansive people have been killed in acts of violence in the past year, and a similar number died in 2023, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrcs-2024-epidemic-of-violence-report-fatal-violence-against-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-people-continues-with-black-trans-women-comprising-nearly-half-of-the-deaths\">Human Rights Campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes Michelle Henry, who was 25 years old when she was found dead in a downtown San Francisco residence in May, according to an SFPD news release. The death was ruled a homicide, and the medical examiner found that Henry had suffered \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=crime&id=333324\">multiple stab wounds and was strangled\u003c/a>, according to the \u003cem>Bay Area Reporter\u003c/em>, which reported that police did not have evidence the killing was motivated by hate\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany said Henry grew up in San Francisco and became well-known within the local trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was formerly homeless, was able to engage in services, was housed, was a participant in the S.F. LGBT Center’s youth program,” she told KQED. “I think people were really excited for the progress that she had made in her life and for the life that waited for her ahead. For her life to be cut short at 25, in a very violent way, was really disturbing for a lot of people here in San Francisco, in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990260/a-conversation-with-banko-browns-chosen-family\">Banko Brown\u003c/a>, a Black trans man, was shot and killed by a security guard at a Walgreens store in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that for many of us today, Trans Day of Remembrance, is a really tough time,” Mahogany said during the rally. “Many of us know people who have passed, many of us know people who have passed due to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Elected officials and legal teams across California are mobilizing this week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">former President Donald Trump\u003c/a> won back the White House on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near-constant battles with the Golden State, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/california-vs-trump-lawsuits/\">which sued him on average about every 12 days\u003c/a>, marked Trump’s first administration, on a wide range of issues including immigration and environmental protection. In the second Trump administration, the state is poised to play a leading role in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, immigrant groups, the LGBTQ community and others are anxious about their future under Trump, whose campaign rhetoric often targeted them specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference at San Francisco’s Crissy Field on Thursday, standing next to a “Progress will prevail” sign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013588/ag-bonta-pledges-to-protect-california-values-from-trump-presidency\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> said he’s spent months talking with his department and attorneys general across the country in preparation of a potential second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have thought through all of the possibilities of the attacks on our values, our people, our state, and we expect certain litigation to come or certain actions to come from the federal government and certain litigation that we will take in response,” Bonta said. “There’s a lot of different scenarios on a lot of different topics, from immigration to the environment to civil rights to gun safety … the list goes on, but we are ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term, Bonta’s predecessor Xavier Becerra brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741446/fastest-litigant-in-the-west-californias-on-verge-of-suing-trump-more-than-texas-ever-sued-obama\">over 100 lawsuits\u003c/a> against his administration — far more than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Rob Bonta takes questions from the media as he announces charges made against suspects involved in an organized retail crime ring during a news conference in Los Angeles on March 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many were successful. Becerra prevented Trump from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/09/11/550218405/california-sues-trump-administration-over-decision-to-rescind-daca\">repealing an Obama-era protection\u003c/a> against deportation for immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy and upheld California’s right to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-files-lawsuit-challenging-trump-administration%E2%80%99s-2\">set its own vehicle emissions standards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy will be the same this time around, Bonta said.[aside postID=news_12013588 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“We believe he’ll be taking unlawful actions and that we will find appropriate relief and remedies in court where we always have,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">preparing to bolster that legal effort\u003c/a> against what he called an incoming “attack” on the state’s freedoms. On Thursday, Newsom called a special legislative session meant to gird the state for an incoming federal administration that has clashed with California on many fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are prepared to fight in the courts, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the priorities for the special session, which would begin in early December, will be legislation to provide additional funding for the state’s Department of Justice and other agencies to be ready to sue the Trump administration as well as defend against potential incoming federal lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/11/06/trump-immigration-policies/\">Trump repeatedly called\u003c/a> for mass, militarized deportation of immigrants who lack legal status. California — a sanctuary state — is home to millions of immigrants, and local advocates and lawyers are gearing up for a turbulent next four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Medina, executive director of La Raza Community Resource Center in San Francisco, said that in the days since the election, his team has already seen a drop-off in the number of people coming in for basic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fear is disconnecting our folks from just being able to receive basic services, whether it’s case management, whether it’s food, whether it’s rental assistance,” Medina said. “That’s a huge concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941173/sf-supervisors-split-on-details-of-citys-sanctuary-policy-shielding-immigrants-from-deportation\">a sanctuary city\u003c/a> within a sanctuary state, which Medina said will help protect the city’s immigrant community under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11293483\" class=\"wp-caption 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permits, blocking benefits with asylum, with temporary protected status eligibility categories,” said Gilberto Nicolas Gonzalez, one of the lawyers on staff at La Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next couple of months, Gonzalez said, his team is preparing strategies to deal with an increase in detainments and court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really just trying to plan ahead,” he said. “But as of right now, we’re really uncertain and a lot of our clients are kind of in fear and in shambles right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area LGBTQ advocates are also voicing their anxiety about the future under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg\" alt=\"A row of flagpoles displaying rainbow flags stands in front of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"2000\" 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We believe he’ll be taking unlawful actions and that we will find appropriate relief and remedies in court where we always have,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">preparing to bolster that legal effort\u003c/a> against what he called an incoming “attack” on the state’s freedoms. On Thursday, Newsom called a special legislative session meant to gird the state for an incoming federal administration that has clashed with California on many fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are prepared to fight in the courts, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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California — a sanctuary state — is home to millions of immigrants, and local advocates and lawyers are gearing up for a turbulent next four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Medina, executive director of La Raza Community Resource Center in San Francisco, said that in the days since the election, his team has already seen a drop-off in the number of people coming in for basic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fear is disconnecting our folks from just being able to receive basic services, whether it’s case management, whether it’s food, whether it’s rental assistance,” Medina said. “That’s a huge concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941173/sf-supervisors-split-on-details-of-citys-sanctuary-policy-shielding-immigrants-from-deportation\">a sanctuary city\u003c/a> within a sanctuary state, which Medina said will help protect the city’s immigrant community under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11293483\" class=\"wp-caption 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The museum also cares for the bloodstained suit worn by Supervisor Harvey Milk, who represented the Castro, when he was assassinated in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s welcomed foreign dignitaries to the 1,600-square-foot site, including the Queen of the Netherlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A visitor to the GLBT Historical Society Museum listens intently to the recorded will of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who was assassinated in 1978. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich/GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is the place where people come to learn about the queer history of the Castro and in San Francisco,” Mandelman said. “It’s been great, but it is small, and it has never been understood to be the permanent home for the [GLBT] historical society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman credits Breed, whose office committed $12.5 million for the acquisition in 2021, and state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who helped secure an additional $5.5 million in state funding, for making the new site a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the effort to establish the museum will help educate future generations about the community’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006736\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum4-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The archives include over a thousand collections spanning a century’s worth of LGBTQ history in San Francisco and Northern California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand where we came from,” Wiener said. “There are people who came before us, people who fought, who struggled, who died, and who built the movement and built the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Breed and Mandelman will introduce legislation before the Board of Supervisors to officially purchase the Upper Market space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11989910 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/0M6A0928_qut-1020x648.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the supervisors approve the agreement, the city will enter into a lease agreement with the GLBT Historical Society and the Community Arts Stabilization Trust, which works to secure affordable spaces for nonprofit arts and culture organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordeñana said the museum will uplift LGBTQ history while also shining a light on the equality struggles that still remain. He said this means reckoning with the community’s shortcomings, including the historical exclusion of people of color, transgender people and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having an organization that prioritizes a strong racial and gender equity framework and the ability to lift up those stories from the communities that are most impacted by intersecting oppression has been incredibly important for us,” Ordeñana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-800x434.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-1020x553.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-1536x833.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum5-1920x1041.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exhibit uses archival materials and artifacts to share historical events of the LGBTQ community in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich/GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This means exploring a name change for the new museum, Ordeñana said, so that the diverse communities of San Francisco may see themselves more accurately reflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordeñana knows firsthand that life in San Francisco “isn’t always easy” for gay and trans people. A San Francisco native, he was born to parents who immigrated from Central America. It wasn’t until he got involved with arts, culture and HIV/AIDS prevention work that he found his sense of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1889\" height=\"1416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3.jpg 1889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GLBTMuseum3-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1889px) 100vw, 1889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco will be the first in the nation to have a permanent space for it’s groundbreaking LGBTQ history museum and archives. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich/GLBT Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, city and state officials, the GLBT Historical Society and community members celebrated at the proposed museum site with a commemoration ceremony and a performance by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an incredibly proud moment for me as someone who was born and raised here to be able to support the stewardship of this incredible collection,” Ordeñana said. “It’s vital for San Francisco to continue being that beacon of hope for the entire world to really understand both the struggles and the resilience of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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And you’re listening to Prop Fest – A breakdown of ALL the statewide propositions on your ballot this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Spooky season is just around the corner, and as luck would have it, today we’re going to talk about zombies. Specifically the “zombie law” that bans same-sex marriage in California…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra\u003c/strong>: It’s dead, but it could resurrect!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Californians will vote on Prop 3 to decide if we should take that same-sex marriage ban out of the state constitution and replace it with something that affirms marriage is for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guavarra:\u003c/strong> And if I remember correctly, California’s history on same-sex marriage is pretty complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Super complicated. Today, we’re going back on the twisty, turny road of same-sex marriage legalization in this state. Because it helps explain why that zombie law is there in the first place. Then we’ll break down what exactly is up for consideration with Prop 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guavarra:\u003c/strong> That’s coming up on Prop Fest, a collaboration between The Bay and Bay. Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPONSOR MESSAGE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Today we’re talking about Proposition 3. Here’s how it will read on your ballot…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voiceover:\u003c/strong> Prop 3 is a constitutional right to marriage proposed by the state legislature. It amends the California Constitution to recognize the fundamental right to marry, regardless of sex or race. It also removes language in the California Constitution stating that marriage is only between a man and a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Essentially it overwrites a ban on same-sex marriage that’s currently in California’s constitution. Because same-sex marriage is legal federally, that ban is unenforceable or a zombie law. So let’s start with a history lesson on how exactly we got here with KQED’s Scott Shafer, who is the co-host of Political Breakdown, a daily podcast about California politics. Hey, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Hey, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So walk us back. When did California voters first weigh in on the issue of same-sex marriage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> You’d have to go back to around the year 2000. That was when some states began issuing civil unions to same-sex couples. And it was kind of ‘marriage lite’. It wasn’t all the rights, legal rights of marriage that now gay couples and lesbian couples enjoy. But it was a recognition that these relationships were important and that they should be afforded some rights. For example, the right to visit your partner in the hospital, which was not a given in a lot of states. And so states like Vermont and Hawaii and Massachusetts began talking about rights for same-sex couples. And that really concerned a lot of religious conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so in the year 2000, a state senator from Southern California named Pete Knight got a ballot measure on the November ballot, Proposition 22, which changed the family code in the state of California, and said that marriage was only between a man and a woman. That passed pretty easily with about 61% of the vote. And that’s where it stayed until Gavin Newsom got elected mayor in San Francisco in the year 2003. A few weeks after becoming mayor in San Francisco…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom (archival tape):\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Today, San Francisco took the step to make the case that we believe in the words in the California Constitution, and we took action to implement that.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Gavin Newsom decided he was going to allow the county of San Francisco to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. And this stunned people. It kind of came out of the blue and within hours, people started flocking to San Francisco City Hall, lining up and taking their vows, taking marriage licenses out from the recorder’s office. And it became a huge national story.\u003cbr>\nIt was pretty widely expected that the courts would shut this down because Newsom really didn’t have any legal right to be doing this. But 4,000 couples lined up over the course of a few weeks to get married at City Hall, and they became known as ‘Newsom twosomes.’ A lot of people sort of assumed that those would not really hold up legally. But it was, you know, a validation of relationships and it really became a huge international story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But questionable legally, as we soon find out. Right. What happens next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So after this went on for a few weeks, there was a lawsuit filed by several parties to stop the marriages and declare them unconstitutional or illegal. And so the marriages were stopped. And a few months later, the California Supreme Court said, ‘You know what? Yes, these marriages are not valid. All the people who got married sorry, folks, you’re not married anymore and you have to stop doing this.’ And that’s where it stood for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I can’t imagine being married, and then you wake up one day and find a headline that you’re not anymore. That must have been really tough. But people didn’t give up. You know, they wanted those rights back. So what happens next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So there was a lawsuit filed in the state of California in which Proposition 22, which had passed in the year 2000, was challenged as being unconstitutional. And it went to the California Supreme Court. And in May of 2008, the court declared that, in fact, Prop 22 was unconstitutional. And so there was a a kind of euphoria among same-sex marriage supporters on the day that the Supreme Court in California ruled by a 4 to 3 margin, that, yeah, in fact, same-sex couples could legally get married and many did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival clip of couple at San Francisco City Hall:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>We’ve been planning this for a year to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history, and time in our history is amazing.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> In that window of time in 2008, some 17,000 same-sex couples rushed to their city halls and county offices to take out marriage licenses and tie the knot. But at the same time, there was a group of religious conservatives, a group called Protect Marriage dot com was collecting the signatures to put on the ballot– a ballot measure that became known as Proposition 8, which declared again, as a constitutional amendment, that marriage in California was between one man and one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So voters by 52% to 48% passed Proposition 8. It was kind of a shock for liberal, what we thought was liberal California, which had easily voted for Barack Obama over John McCain in that very same election, voted more narrowly, but nonetheless to take away the right of same-sex couples to get married. And there was a lot of anger. And there were some very, you know, big protests that broke out across California from LGBT folks and their supporters protesting the vote. But there it was. I mean, it was now the law of the land in California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>News Clips:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>“Shame on you!/Supporters of gay marriage targeted L.A.’s Mormon temple protesting the more than $15 million the church poured into passing proposition 8…/Equal rights! Equal rights!/For the third straight day thousands marched in California protesting the election night passing of Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So after all the protests, there was a lawsuit filed in state court to try to overturn Prop 8, saying that it was a violation of the state constitution. But after considering all of the arguments on both sides, the state Supreme Court, which, you know, just like a year earlier had said same-sex marriage was legal, said no. Now the voters have changed the Constitution. And if the voters have done it, then it is in fact, constitutional. So that was, we thought, the end of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But then things move on to federal court. So we’re leveling up here. Where do we go next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Not too long after the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, there was an effort to file in federal court very quietly. You know, there was this really small group of people, including the Human Rights Campaign, which is based in Washington. Rob Reiner, the director, who came together and said, ‘why don’t we put our own legal case together? We’ll find some plaintiffs and we’ll file it in federal court in San Francisco and see what’ll happen. Maybe, maybe we can get this legalized that way.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was a huge disagreement within the LGBTQ and the legal rights, civil rights communities, because there was a concern that if they filed this in federal court, the outcome was very unclear. And so there was a fear that it would be a setback for the movement ultimately if they didn’t win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And how does that case make its way through the courts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well, you know, these cases are assigned randomly. The backers of same-sex marriage really caught a break because the judge to whom this was assigned was Vaughn Walker. Vaughn Walker, although he was appointed by a Republican president, was known as kind of a Libertarian. He was also known as being gay. He wasn’t particularly open about it, but I think people thought, wow, this guy is a Libertarian. He’s gay and he is going to consider this case. Maybe we do have a chance of getting a favorable ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things that Vaughn Walker did at the very beginning that surprised everybody is that he called for an actual trial with evidence and witnesses and testimony on the record. And this surprised everybody. And I think in particular, the folks who were supporting the idea of legalizing same-sex marriage were really happy because this gave them a chance to put all of these arguments against same-sex marriage on trial. And a lot of those arguments, as came out during the course of the trial, really weren’t based in fact. They weren’t backed up by any kind of evidence or research. They were really kind of fringy–A lot of them considered homophobic, honestly, that really didn’t hold up under scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And how did it go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well, it was fascinating. I sat in on the courtroom for those two weeks of testimony here in San Francisco at the federal court building. And there was some very emotional testimony from the plaintiffs. There were a lesbian couple from Berkeley, two gay men from Los Angeles. They talked about the importance of getting married to them, why it was important to them, what it would mean for them to have this very public acknowledgment of their relationship. A historian from Yale testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the other side, there was a very small number of witnesses, maybe four. And they withered under cross-examination, Their testimony didn’t hold up. Subsequently, actually, some of them changed their minds about same-sex marriage. And so after several months of taking it all into consideration, Judge Vaughn Walker issued his ruling in August of 2010, striking down Prop 8, saying it was in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the equal protection and due process clauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And with that decision, Prop 8 officially becomes a zombie law in California, still on the books, but it’s not enforceable. But just like supporters of same sex marriage had been, the Prop 8, people weren’t going to give up yet. There’s an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yes. And in fact, Judge Vaughn Walker, although he struck down Prop 8, he put that on hold. He issued a stay. And that gave the supporters of Prop 8 an opportunity to appeal. And so they went to the Ninth Circuit. The appeals court upheld the lower court ruling and then they appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And it took until 2013, three years after the initial ruling, striking down Prop 8 for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So what really started as Newsom kind of going rogue and marrying people at San Francisco City Hall has now snowballed into the highest court in the United States, taking up the issue, essentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Exactly. And this issue was just a California ballot measure. And it wasn’t a very clean decision, ultimately. The attorneys for the ‘No on Prop 8’ side, they would have liked it if the U.S. Supreme Court said right then and there, ‘Same-sex marriage should be legal throughout the country.’ They didn’t do that. They didn’t issue a decision on the merits. What they said was, ‘You guys who are challenging this law, you don’t have standing, you don’t have legal standing. You’re not really directly affected by Proposition 8. Therefore, we’re going to let the lower court decision stand because you all don’t have a right to be here.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Got it. So same-sex marriage is legal, but only in California and various other states at that point had legalized it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Correct. So it did apply to California. It was back on in California. So same-sex couples could get married, but it did not apply nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So then how do we get to the place where we are today, where it’s legal nationwide?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So once Proposition 8 was struck down, yes, gay marriage, same-sex marriage was legal here in California, but not nationwide. But then a couple of years later, there was another case brought by a plaintiff named Jim Obergefell. He lived in Ohio and he wanted to get married to his partner. And he made a very similar case to the U.S. Supreme Court based on the 14th Amendment and the due process and equal protection clauses, saying that he should not be barred from getting married just because he’s gay. And in a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court decided that, yes, in fact, same-sex marriage should be legal nationwide. That was a historic ruling and it changed everything. It changed the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So this year we’re voting on Prop 3. How does Prop 3 tie into all this history?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So the 2013 decision striking down Prop 8 invalidated Prop 8. But, you know, the law was on the books. Technically, it was a zombie law. And there was concern in Sacramento that it could come back to life like a zombie. If, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court, you know, decided for whatever reason, that maybe that Obergefell decision was wrongly decided. We’ve seen that with abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Congress did pass legislation sort of enshrining the right to same-sex marriage into law in 2022. So it would be much harder to overturn that now. But in Sacramento, some of the opponents of Prop 8 said, you know what? Let’s just strip this out of the California Constitution once and for all. And so the state legislature, without any dissenting votes in the assembly or the Senate, voted to put Prop 3 on the ballot. That’s what we’re voting on in November. It would replace that language that the voters passed with Prop 8, with language saying that all people have the right to get married and that it’s a part of their fundamental right to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> You’ve sort of answered, I think, a part of this, but maybe you won’t elaborate. You know, Prop 8 has been sitting there, you know, in California’s constitution, unenforceable for a decade. Why make this change now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> It is somewhat symbolic on one hand, because, as you say, you know, it can’t be enforced. But I think it’s also kind of a statement that not just getting rid of the old language, but affirming, you know, in a positive way, the right to same-sex marriage, enshrining that in the law. Something similar happened, you know, a couple of years ago with abortion in California. Abortion is legal here. But there was a ballot measure fundamentally enshrining it into the state constitution as a way of really making an emphatic statement that this is a fundamental right that women should have. And I think they also want to send a message maybe to the rest of the country to show how far California has come. So they’re hoping that this ballot measure will pass overwhelmingly. And really just kind of put an exclamation point on this change in attitude and law. You know, that gay couples now can rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Now, back in 2008, when Prop 8 was passed, it had a lot of financial support from the Mormon temple and other religious organizations. What does opposition to Prop 3 look like at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Right now, the opponents of Proposition 3 have $0. You know, they have to file financial statements with the state of California. And in the most recent filing, they literally had raised no money whatsoever. The yes side, on the other hand, has raised at least $4 million. And it has widespread political support from Governor Newsom, virtually every statewide elected official, if not everyone. The California Democratic Party, organized labor, the labor federation. There are corporations and just many others who are happy to give money to this cause, to take this anti-gay language out of the state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t want to suggest that, like everyone now supports same-sex marriage because that’s not the case. Even though there were no no votes in the state legislature, there were a number of legislators, mostly Republicans, who just skipped the vote. They didn’t vote at all. It’s hard to say exactly whether they would have been yes or no. My guess is they oppose same-sex marriage, but didn’t really want to put their names to the opposition to Proposition 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are some groups that still, you know, have put ballot arguments in the voter guide. There’s a group called the California Capital Connection. They have an alliance with independent Baptist ministers and churches to put out a statement. And their statement reads, ‘God instituted marriage and defined it as a union between a man and a woman. And you know that people cannot redefine what God has already defined.’ So there’s definitely still opposition to same-sex marriage. It’s just that the broad public has really shifted in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, Scott Shafer is the co-host of Political Breakdown KQED daily podcast, all about California politics. Scott, before you go, just tell people what can they expect from you on the podcast over the next couple of weeks before Election Day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> California has a lot of races in play that will either help the Democrats take the House or keep it a Republican majority. It’s going to be an exciting sprint to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, thanks for helping us out today, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yes, happy to do it. Thank you for doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> In summary, a vote yes on Prop 3 would take language that defines marriage as between a man and a woman out of California’s constitution. And it adds into the Constitution the right to marry regardless of sex or race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote no on Prop 3 would keep the same-sex marriage ban in California’s constitution. There would be no change in who can marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it for Proposition 3. If you’re a new listener, just tuning in for our Prop Fest series, be sure to subscribe to the Bay Curious podcast. Every Thursday we drop episodes that explore listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a lot of fun, and we always learn so much – so if you’re digging Prop Fest so far, I think you’ll enjoy our other work too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Prop Fest is a collaboration between The Bay and Bay Curious podcasts. It is produced by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, Ana De Almeda Amaral, Olivia Allen-Price, Alan Montecillo, Jessica Kariisa, and me Ericka Cruz Guevarra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Extra support from Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan, And the whole KQED family\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> You can find audio and transcripts for this series at KQED.org/PropFest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Our show is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. If you value podcasts like this one, please consider becoming a sustaining member of KQED. Learn more at KQED.org/donate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> …And legal here in California for eleven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So you might be surprised to know that the California Constitution still says same-sex marriage is banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Wedding March slows down and stops]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price … Host of Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, Host of The Bay. And you’re listening to Prop Fest – A breakdown of ALL the statewide propositions on your ballot this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Spooky season is just around the corner, and as luck would have it, today we’re going to talk about zombies. Specifically the “zombie law” that bans same-sex marriage in California…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra\u003c/strong>: It’s dead, but it could resurrect!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Californians will vote on Prop 3 to decide if we should take that same-sex marriage ban out of the state constitution and replace it with something that affirms marriage is for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guavarra:\u003c/strong> And if I remember correctly, California’s history on same-sex marriage is pretty complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Super complicated. Today, we’re going back on the twisty, turny road of same-sex marriage legalization in this state. Because it helps explain why that zombie law is there in the first place. Then we’ll break down what exactly is up for consideration with Prop 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guavarra:\u003c/strong> That’s coming up on Prop Fest, a collaboration between The Bay and Bay. Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPONSOR MESSAGE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Today we’re talking about Proposition 3. Here’s how it will read on your ballot…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voiceover:\u003c/strong> Prop 3 is a constitutional right to marriage proposed by the state legislature. It amends the California Constitution to recognize the fundamental right to marry, regardless of sex or race. It also removes language in the California Constitution stating that marriage is only between a man and a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Essentially it overwrites a ban on same-sex marriage that’s currently in California’s constitution. Because same-sex marriage is legal federally, that ban is unenforceable or a zombie law. So let’s start with a history lesson on how exactly we got here with KQED’s Scott Shafer, who is the co-host of Political Breakdown, a daily podcast about California politics. Hey, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Hey, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So walk us back. When did California voters first weigh in on the issue of same-sex marriage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> You’d have to go back to around the year 2000. That was when some states began issuing civil unions to same-sex couples. And it was kind of ‘marriage lite’. It wasn’t all the rights, legal rights of marriage that now gay couples and lesbian couples enjoy. But it was a recognition that these relationships were important and that they should be afforded some rights. For example, the right to visit your partner in the hospital, which was not a given in a lot of states. And so states like Vermont and Hawaii and Massachusetts began talking about rights for same-sex couples. And that really concerned a lot of religious conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so in the year 2000, a state senator from Southern California named Pete Knight got a ballot measure on the November ballot, Proposition 22, which changed the family code in the state of California, and said that marriage was only between a man and a woman. That passed pretty easily with about 61% of the vote. And that’s where it stayed until Gavin Newsom got elected mayor in San Francisco in the year 2003. A few weeks after becoming mayor in San Francisco…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gavin Newsom (archival tape):\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Today, San Francisco took the step to make the case that we believe in the words in the California Constitution, and we took action to implement that.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Gavin Newsom decided he was going to allow the county of San Francisco to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. And this stunned people. It kind of came out of the blue and within hours, people started flocking to San Francisco City Hall, lining up and taking their vows, taking marriage licenses out from the recorder’s office. And it became a huge national story.\u003cbr>\nIt was pretty widely expected that the courts would shut this down because Newsom really didn’t have any legal right to be doing this. But 4,000 couples lined up over the course of a few weeks to get married at City Hall, and they became known as ‘Newsom twosomes.’ A lot of people sort of assumed that those would not really hold up legally. But it was, you know, a validation of relationships and it really became a huge international story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But questionable legally, as we soon find out. Right. What happens next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So after this went on for a few weeks, there was a lawsuit filed by several parties to stop the marriages and declare them unconstitutional or illegal. And so the marriages were stopped. And a few months later, the California Supreme Court said, ‘You know what? Yes, these marriages are not valid. All the people who got married sorry, folks, you’re not married anymore and you have to stop doing this.’ And that’s where it stood for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I can’t imagine being married, and then you wake up one day and find a headline that you’re not anymore. That must have been really tough. But people didn’t give up. You know, they wanted those rights back. So what happens next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So there was a lawsuit filed in the state of California in which Proposition 22, which had passed in the year 2000, was challenged as being unconstitutional. And it went to the California Supreme Court. And in May of 2008, the court declared that, in fact, Prop 22 was unconstitutional. And so there was a a kind of euphoria among same-sex marriage supporters on the day that the Supreme Court in California ruled by a 4 to 3 margin, that, yeah, in fact, same-sex couples could legally get married and many did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival clip of couple at San Francisco City Hall:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>We’ve been planning this for a year to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history, and time in our history is amazing.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> In that window of time in 2008, some 17,000 same-sex couples rushed to their city halls and county offices to take out marriage licenses and tie the knot. But at the same time, there was a group of religious conservatives, a group called Protect Marriage dot com was collecting the signatures to put on the ballot– a ballot measure that became known as Proposition 8, which declared again, as a constitutional amendment, that marriage in California was between one man and one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So voters by 52% to 48% passed Proposition 8. It was kind of a shock for liberal, what we thought was liberal California, which had easily voted for Barack Obama over John McCain in that very same election, voted more narrowly, but nonetheless to take away the right of same-sex couples to get married. And there was a lot of anger. And there were some very, you know, big protests that broke out across California from LGBT folks and their supporters protesting the vote. But there it was. I mean, it was now the law of the land in California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>News Clips:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>“Shame on you!/Supporters of gay marriage targeted L.A.’s Mormon temple protesting the more than $15 million the church poured into passing proposition 8…/Equal rights! Equal rights!/For the third straight day thousands marched in California protesting the election night passing of Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So after all the protests, there was a lawsuit filed in state court to try to overturn Prop 8, saying that it was a violation of the state constitution. But after considering all of the arguments on both sides, the state Supreme Court, which, you know, just like a year earlier had said same-sex marriage was legal, said no. Now the voters have changed the Constitution. And if the voters have done it, then it is in fact, constitutional. So that was, we thought, the end of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But then things move on to federal court. So we’re leveling up here. Where do we go next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Not too long after the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, there was an effort to file in federal court very quietly. You know, there was this really small group of people, including the Human Rights Campaign, which is based in Washington. Rob Reiner, the director, who came together and said, ‘why don’t we put our own legal case together? We’ll find some plaintiffs and we’ll file it in federal court in San Francisco and see what’ll happen. Maybe, maybe we can get this legalized that way.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was a huge disagreement within the LGBTQ and the legal rights, civil rights communities, because there was a concern that if they filed this in federal court, the outcome was very unclear. And so there was a fear that it would be a setback for the movement ultimately if they didn’t win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And how does that case make its way through the courts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well, you know, these cases are assigned randomly. The backers of same-sex marriage really caught a break because the judge to whom this was assigned was Vaughn Walker. Vaughn Walker, although he was appointed by a Republican president, was known as kind of a Libertarian. He was also known as being gay. He wasn’t particularly open about it, but I think people thought, wow, this guy is a Libertarian. He’s gay and he is going to consider this case. Maybe we do have a chance of getting a favorable ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things that Vaughn Walker did at the very beginning that surprised everybody is that he called for an actual trial with evidence and witnesses and testimony on the record. And this surprised everybody. And I think in particular, the folks who were supporting the idea of legalizing same-sex marriage were really happy because this gave them a chance to put all of these arguments against same-sex marriage on trial. And a lot of those arguments, as came out during the course of the trial, really weren’t based in fact. They weren’t backed up by any kind of evidence or research. They were really kind of fringy–A lot of them considered homophobic, honestly, that really didn’t hold up under scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And how did it go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well, it was fascinating. I sat in on the courtroom for those two weeks of testimony here in San Francisco at the federal court building. And there was some very emotional testimony from the plaintiffs. There were a lesbian couple from Berkeley, two gay men from Los Angeles. They talked about the importance of getting married to them, why it was important to them, what it would mean for them to have this very public acknowledgment of their relationship. A historian from Yale testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the other side, there was a very small number of witnesses, maybe four. And they withered under cross-examination, Their testimony didn’t hold up. Subsequently, actually, some of them changed their minds about same-sex marriage. And so after several months of taking it all into consideration, Judge Vaughn Walker issued his ruling in August of 2010, striking down Prop 8, saying it was in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the equal protection and due process clauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And with that decision, Prop 8 officially becomes a zombie law in California, still on the books, but it’s not enforceable. But just like supporters of same sex marriage had been, the Prop 8, people weren’t going to give up yet. There’s an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yes. And in fact, Judge Vaughn Walker, although he struck down Prop 8, he put that on hold. He issued a stay. And that gave the supporters of Prop 8 an opportunity to appeal. And so they went to the Ninth Circuit. The appeals court upheld the lower court ruling and then they appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And it took until 2013, three years after the initial ruling, striking down Prop 8 for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So what really started as Newsom kind of going rogue and marrying people at San Francisco City Hall has now snowballed into the highest court in the United States, taking up the issue, essentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Exactly. And this issue was just a California ballot measure. And it wasn’t a very clean decision, ultimately. The attorneys for the ‘No on Prop 8’ side, they would have liked it if the U.S. Supreme Court said right then and there, ‘Same-sex marriage should be legal throughout the country.’ They didn’t do that. They didn’t issue a decision on the merits. What they said was, ‘You guys who are challenging this law, you don’t have standing, you don’t have legal standing. You’re not really directly affected by Proposition 8. Therefore, we’re going to let the lower court decision stand because you all don’t have a right to be here.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Got it. So same-sex marriage is legal, but only in California and various other states at that point had legalized it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Correct. So it did apply to California. It was back on in California. So same-sex couples could get married, but it did not apply nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So then how do we get to the place where we are today, where it’s legal nationwide?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So once Proposition 8 was struck down, yes, gay marriage, same-sex marriage was legal here in California, but not nationwide. But then a couple of years later, there was another case brought by a plaintiff named Jim Obergefell. He lived in Ohio and he wanted to get married to his partner. And he made a very similar case to the U.S. Supreme Court based on the 14th Amendment and the due process and equal protection clauses, saying that he should not be barred from getting married just because he’s gay. And in a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court decided that, yes, in fact, same-sex marriage should be legal nationwide. That was a historic ruling and it changed everything. It changed the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So this year we’re voting on Prop 3. How does Prop 3 tie into all this history?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So the 2013 decision striking down Prop 8 invalidated Prop 8. But, you know, the law was on the books. Technically, it was a zombie law. And there was concern in Sacramento that it could come back to life like a zombie. If, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court, you know, decided for whatever reason, that maybe that Obergefell decision was wrongly decided. We’ve seen that with abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Congress did pass legislation sort of enshrining the right to same-sex marriage into law in 2022. So it would be much harder to overturn that now. But in Sacramento, some of the opponents of Prop 8 said, you know what? Let’s just strip this out of the California Constitution once and for all. And so the state legislature, without any dissenting votes in the assembly or the Senate, voted to put Prop 3 on the ballot. That’s what we’re voting on in November. It would replace that language that the voters passed with Prop 8, with language saying that all people have the right to get married and that it’s a part of their fundamental right to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> You’ve sort of answered, I think, a part of this, but maybe you won’t elaborate. You know, Prop 8 has been sitting there, you know, in California’s constitution, unenforceable for a decade. Why make this change now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> It is somewhat symbolic on one hand, because, as you say, you know, it can’t be enforced. But I think it’s also kind of a statement that not just getting rid of the old language, but affirming, you know, in a positive way, the right to same-sex marriage, enshrining that in the law. Something similar happened, you know, a couple of years ago with abortion in California. Abortion is legal here. But there was a ballot measure fundamentally enshrining it into the state constitution as a way of really making an emphatic statement that this is a fundamental right that women should have. And I think they also want to send a message maybe to the rest of the country to show how far California has come. So they’re hoping that this ballot measure will pass overwhelmingly. And really just kind of put an exclamation point on this change in attitude and law. You know, that gay couples now can rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Now, back in 2008, when Prop 8 was passed, it had a lot of financial support from the Mormon temple and other religious organizations. What does opposition to Prop 3 look like at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Right now, the opponents of Proposition 3 have $0. You know, they have to file financial statements with the state of California. And in the most recent filing, they literally had raised no money whatsoever. The yes side, on the other hand, has raised at least $4 million. And it has widespread political support from Governor Newsom, virtually every statewide elected official, if not everyone. The California Democratic Party, organized labor, the labor federation. There are corporations and just many others who are happy to give money to this cause, to take this anti-gay language out of the state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t want to suggest that, like everyone now supports same-sex marriage because that’s not the case. Even though there were no no votes in the state legislature, there were a number of legislators, mostly Republicans, who just skipped the vote. They didn’t vote at all. It’s hard to say exactly whether they would have been yes or no. My guess is they oppose same-sex marriage, but didn’t really want to put their names to the opposition to Proposition 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are some groups that still, you know, have put ballot arguments in the voter guide. There’s a group called the California Capital Connection. They have an alliance with independent Baptist ministers and churches to put out a statement. And their statement reads, ‘God instituted marriage and defined it as a union between a man and a woman. And you know that people cannot redefine what God has already defined.’ So there’s definitely still opposition to same-sex marriage. It’s just that the broad public has really shifted in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, Scott Shafer is the co-host of Political Breakdown KQED daily podcast, all about California politics. Scott, before you go, just tell people what can they expect from you on the podcast over the next couple of weeks before Election Day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> California has a lot of races in play that will either help the Democrats take the House or keep it a Republican majority. It’s going to be an exciting sprint to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, thanks for helping us out today, Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yes, happy to do it. Thank you for doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> In summary, a vote yes on Prop 3 would take language that defines marriage as between a man and a woman out of California’s constitution. And it adds into the Constitution the right to marry regardless of sex or race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote no on Prop 3 would keep the same-sex marriage ban in California’s constitution. There would be no change in who can marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it for Proposition 3. If you’re a new listener, just tuning in for our Prop Fest series, be sure to subscribe to the Bay Curious podcast. Every Thursday we drop episodes that explore listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a lot of fun, and we always learn so much – so if you’re digging Prop Fest so far, I think you’ll enjoy our other work too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Prop Fest is a collaboration between The Bay and Bay Curious podcasts. It is produced by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, Ana De Almeda Amaral, Olivia Allen-Price, Alan Montecillo, Jessica Kariisa, and me Ericka Cruz Guevarra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Extra support from Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan, And the whole KQED family\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> You can find audio and transcripts for this series at KQED.org/PropFest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Our show is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. If you value podcasts like this one, please consider becoming a sustaining member of KQED. Learn more at KQED.org/donate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:28 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks after a young Black woman died in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> County Jail with little official word about what happened, her family members and advocates are still seeking answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aamonte Hadley, 22, had been locked up awaiting trial for nearly two years when she was found dead on Sept. 3. Her death puts the spotlight on concerns over jail overcrowding and drops in referrals to mental health diversion programs, and comes as District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ approach is being put to the test amid her reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Department of Police Accountability, the Medical Examiner’s Office and the Criminal Investigations Unit of the Sheriff’s Office are investigating Hadley’s death. But her family said they have not received any details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing, nothing. They didn’t tell me anything. I still don’t know,” Adimika Blockman, Hadley’s mother, said at a rally joined by more than a dozen other relatives and supporters outside the San Francisco Women’s Jail on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed to Hadley’s death in calling for Jenkins to seek out more alternatives to jail, such as mental health diversion programs. Hadley, who faced charges in connection with a string of robberies but had not been convicted, struggled with mental health challenges, according to her attorney and family members who sought treatment for her while in jail. 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