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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>About 17 states, including California, require certain large polluters to disclose how much they directly emit, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But California’s new climate disclosure bill stands out as the first that would mandate companies, both public and private, to also report their indirect emissions, including those released by transporting products and disposing waste. For example, a major retailer would have to report emissions from powering its own buildings, as well as those that come from delivering products from warehouses to stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill say it is not feasible to accurately account for all of the mandated emissions from sources beyond what companies are directly responsible for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re dealing with information that’s either unreliable or unattainable,” said Brady Van Engelen, a policy advocate at the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chamber, which advocates for businesses across the state, is leading a coalition of influential groups, including the Western States Petroleum Association, the California Hospital Association and agricultural organizations, in opposing the bill. They argue many companies don’t have enough resources or expertise to accurately report emissions and say the legislation could lead to higher prices for people buying their products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of companies in California already have to disclose their direct emissions through the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/18323f7c053845ddb01e578151ec787a\">cap and trade program\u003c/a>, said Danny Cullenward, a climate economist and fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. The decade-old program, which allows large emitters to buy allowances from the state to pollute, and to trade them with other companies, is one of the largest in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cullenward said the disclosure bill could lead to similar proposals in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the disclosure bill acknowledge it’s not a “perfect” solution that would guarantee flawless emissions reports. But they say it’s a starting point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Environmental Voters, which supports the bill, says the legislation would put pressure on companies to move faster in lowering their emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our state can’t just take 2023 off in terms of climate action,” said Mary Creasman, the group’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill becomes law, the California Air Resources Board would have to approve regulations by 2025 to implement the requirements. Companies would then have to begin publicly disclosing their direct emissions in 2026 and start annually reporting their direct and indirect emissions in 2027. They would also have to hire independent auditors to verify their reported emissions releases, although the state would not penalize them for unintentional mistakes in some indirect emissions’ reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar proposal introduced last year passed the state Senate but failed in the Assembly. State Sen. Wiener, who introduced the legislation both years, has said proponents of the bill built a stronger coalition this year to ensure a better outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers are also weighing a bill that would require companies making more than $500 million annually to disclose how climate change could hurt them financially.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "'We're Gonna Fight Back': Drag Artists, Activists Rally in SF Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Nationwide",
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"content": "\u003cp>Drag performers and activists gathered at the “Drag Up! Fight Back!” rally in San Francisco on Saturday to protest recent anti-drag and anti-trans legislation as well as increased attacks against LGBTQ+ rights across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to show the whole world that San Francisco isn’t standing still, that Oakland isn’t standing still, that the Bay Area is not standing still, period,” said LGBTQ+ rights activist and drag king Alex U. Inn. “They come after everything I am. They come after my Black books, they come after my nonbinary books, they come after me being a woman in my womb, they come after me being transidentified. And what does that leave me? So f— them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Four people on stage, all dressed in drag, waving and clapping to the crowd.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Alex U. Inn, Juanita MORE!, Sister Roma and Honey Mahogany speak at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ rally at Union Square in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Activist, politician, drag performer and singer Honey Mahogany, who was one of the organizers of the rally, hailed the LGBTQ+ community’s long history of struggle and defiance that goes back to the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot in San Francisco, where drag queens and trans women, fed up with police harassment, fought back when an officer grabbed a trans woman’s arm. That rebellion, along with the Stonewall riots in New York three years later, set the stage for the modern-day LGBTQ+ rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq1JHAKPpuh/?hl=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have fought so hard for equal rights for the LGBTQ community, and we’ve made a lot of progress, but right now, we’re really facing an unprecedented level of attacks,” said Mahogany. “We have a duty to stand up for those who cannot do that for themselves, who may be less safe in doing that, across the country. We have a lot of great organizations like Southern Equality, the NCLR, the ACLU and many others who are litigating these laws when they are passed, making sure that they are not implemented. It’s really important that we join them in this fight because today it’s them, but tomorrow it could be right here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946118\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946118\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of LGBTQ+ rights supporters young and old march waving rainbow flags and holding signs. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march to Union Square at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ march in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener referred to the “vicious attacks” on trans people, drag queens and the LGBTQ+ community in states across the country as “unacceptable” and “un-American” and said he considered it a form of “gender policing,” which, he added, has a long history in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ rally at Union Square in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is straight-up homophobia and transphobia,” said Wiener, in an interview with KQED prior to the rally. “They dress it up as other things and pretend it’s about the safety of children. These laws are often [drafted] in ways that go towards adults as well. They’re now trying to ban gender-affirming care for anyone under the age of 26, not just children. So this is a broader attack against all LGBTQ people. They want to take us back to the 1950s — or maybe the 1850s. It’s terrifying and we’re gonna fight it hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters march, some in drag, with rainbow colored flags and signs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march to Union Square at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ march in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The “Drag Up! Fight Back!” rally and march was organized by a coalition of drag activists that included Mahogany, Inn, drag icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13919897/san-francisco-arts-commission-juanita-more-30-years\">Juanita MORE!\u003c/a>, Oasis nightclub owner D’Arcy Drollinger and Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The protest kicked off at San Francisco City Hall before heading to Union Square, where there were performances. It came just days after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13927233/heklina-dies-drag-legend-san-francsico\">untimely death\u003c/a> of San Francisco drag icon Heklina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to pay a tribute to Heklina when we get to Union Square,” said MORE! at the start of the rally. “I’ve known Heklina since ’94 or ’95. We’ve done a lot of things together that were so much fun and so crazy, and I was part of T-Shack the whole time that she ran it. I loved her very much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946115\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946115\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a suit and with a beard smiles at the camera surrounded by fellow ralliers. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Chua (center) chats with friends at San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023. Chua is the elected reigning emperor of the Imperial Council of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the ACLU, statehouses nationwide have seen a record \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights\">452 anti-LGBTQ+ bills\u003c/a> this year alone, many of them targeting drag performances, trans people’s access to medical care and other rights. A greater threat, LGBTQ+ rights supporters point out, is the prospect that backers of these bills in state legislatures are intent on taking their efforts to the federal level. News of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946073/texas-judge-halts-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-mifepristone-newsom-slams-ruling\">a Texas federal judge ordering a hold on federal approval of a widely used and effective abortion pill\u003c/a> on Friday added to the sense of urgency Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve already introduced bills in Congress to attack LGBTQ people to replicate what they’re doing in red states,” said Wiener. “Those bills currently are not gonna go anywhere, because we control the Senate and the White House. But if the Republicans take over both the Congress and the presidency in the future, they will absolutely pass these laws into effect nationally. And so they are coming at us here in California. We’re already seeing this with abortion, that they’re trying to effectively ban abortion pills nationwide. They will do the same with respect to LGBTQ people. This is our fight, and it’s our fight everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946116\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946116\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold signs as they march.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mickey Skinner (center) holds a sign reading, ‘If it weren’t for the drag queens who raised me, I would be dead,’ at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ march in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have different states who are bringing legislation because they feel threatened against people who are in drag or people who are trans,” said rally attendee and transgender rights supporter Stanley Wong. “There needs to be more visibility and more activism to educate people that we are in this community and not a threat. Guns are more of a threat to us than people wearing attire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946133\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man smiles at the camera wearing a yellow fluorescent vest and a bus in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanley Wong at San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023. ‘Drag queens are not the people you should be worried about. In fact, they’re probably the people who are going to stand up,’ said Wong. ‘Look at what happened in Stonewall or before that at Compton’s Cafeteria here in San Francisco. There’s been a history of the drag community being very vocal and not taking it. So the march today also symbolizes that, that we aren’t going to just stand by and take it and be threatened by any of this.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just think that I need to be out here to support my drag sisters and my transgender brothers and sisters, and I just see what’s going on in so many states, and there’s even an anti-trans bill here in California that was introduced,” said rally attendee Brian Harradine. “People aren’t realizing how serious the attacks are. I’m hoping that this march and me participating in this march will encourage more people to wake up and take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946112\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man holds a sign that reads 'Drag is not a crime.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rally attendee Brian Harradine holds a ‘Drag is not a crime’ sign at San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023. ‘When I’m feeling really down, I know I can go to a drag performance and feel better,’ said Harradine. ‘When I feel the world is against me. I can go to a drag performance and just feel that I’m safe. I’m welcome.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think all of the movements are connected and the true fight is always intersectional,” said rally attendee Rose Tinani. “When you’re fighting for human rights, you’re fighting for all human rights. You are fighting for Black people, you are fighting for people of color, you’re fighting against anti-trans and anti-queer rights. You’re fighting for all of them, for our right to live as we deem appropriate, not as some white cis men deem appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman with a face mask, a south Asian woman and an Asian man smiles for the camera with people behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Celine Nghiem, Rose Tinani and Tahoe Roe gather for the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ march at San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023. ‘I’m here because we need queer people and queer allies to be showing up and fighting and knowing that this is a fight that will be fought at the ballot box, but it’s not going to end at the ballot box,’ said Tahoe Roe. ‘And so we all need to be here and ready to fight.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What’s bringing me to this rally today? I think it’s ridiculous that people who have positions of power are utilizing it to diminish the humanity of the queer community as a whole,” said Shane Zaldivar, who identifies as both a drag queen and a trans woman. There are people out there just trying to make other people’s lives harder when it’s hard enough … It feels like lives are at stake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A trans person on stage performs in drag with rainbow wings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023..jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shane Zaldivar performs as the Pop Up Drag Queen at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ rally at Union Square in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. ‘I’ve been performing publicly on the streets of San Francisco for maybe seven years now,’ said Zaldivar. ‘I like to just show joy. I like to engage with people … to show that drag and gender expression is not something that needs to be feared. It can be beautiful, it can be joyful, it can be silly.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[This] march is to show the country and the world that the LGBTQ community is not taking this lying down and that drag queens will not be silenced and we will not go back into the closet,” said Mahogany in a previous interview with KQED. “We will not be relegated to just the back of a dark room in a club. We are here as a part of the community, we’re here to stay, and we’re gonna fight back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946129\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Black trans woman with a black top hat and black dress speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Mahogany speaks at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ rally at Union Square in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by Attila Pelit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nvoynovskaya\">Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/afinney\">Annelise Finney\u003c/a> of KQED with photos by Estefany Gonzalez.\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>\u003cp>Drag performers and activists gathered at the “Drag Up! Fight Back!” rally in San Francisco on Saturday to protest recent anti-drag and anti-trans legislation as well as increased attacks against LGBTQ+ rights across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to show the whole world that San Francisco isn’t standing still, that Oakland isn’t standing still, that the Bay Area is not standing still, period,” said LGBTQ+ rights activist and drag king Alex U. Inn. “They come after everything I am. They come after my Black books, they come after my nonbinary books, they come after me being a woman in my womb, they come after me being transidentified. And what does that leave me? So f— them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Four people on stage, all dressed in drag, waving and clapping to the crowd.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7432.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Alex U. Inn, Juanita MORE!, Sister Roma and Honey Mahogany speak at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ rally at Union Square in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Activist, politician, drag performer and singer Honey Mahogany, who was one of the organizers of the rally, hailed the LGBTQ+ community’s long history of struggle and defiance that goes back to the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot in San Francisco, where drag queens and trans women, fed up with police harassment, fought back when an officer grabbed a trans woman’s arm. That rebellion, along with the Stonewall riots in New York three years later, set the stage for the modern-day LGBTQ+ rights movement.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“We have fought so hard for equal rights for the LGBTQ community, and we’ve made a lot of progress, but right now, we’re really facing an unprecedented level of attacks,” said Mahogany. “We have a duty to stand up for those who cannot do that for themselves, who may be less safe in doing that, across the country. We have a lot of great organizations like Southern Equality, the NCLR, the ACLU and many others who are litigating these laws when they are passed, making sure that they are not implemented. It’s really important that we join them in this fight because today it’s them, but tomorrow it could be right here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946118\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946118\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of LGBTQ+ rights supporters young and old march waving rainbow flags and holding signs. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-2.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march to Union Square at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ march in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener referred to the “vicious attacks” on trans people, drag queens and the LGBTQ+ community in states across the country as “unacceptable” and “un-American” and said he considered it a form of “gender policing,” which, he added, has a long history in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7487.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ rally at Union Square in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is straight-up homophobia and transphobia,” said Wiener, in an interview with KQED prior to the rally. “They dress it up as other things and pretend it’s about the safety of children. These laws are often [drafted] in ways that go towards adults as well. They’re now trying to ban gender-affirming care for anyone under the age of 26, not just children. So this is a broader attack against all LGBTQ people. They want to take us back to the 1950s — or maybe the 1850s. It’s terrifying and we’re gonna fight it hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters march, some in drag, with rainbow colored flags and signs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Protesters-march-to-Union-Square-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023-3.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march to Union Square at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ march in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The “Drag Up! Fight Back!” rally and march was organized by a coalition of drag activists that included Mahogany, Inn, drag icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13919897/san-francisco-arts-commission-juanita-more-30-years\">Juanita MORE!\u003c/a>, Oasis nightclub owner D’Arcy Drollinger and Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The protest kicked off at San Francisco City Hall before heading to Union Square, where there were performances. It came just days after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13927233/heklina-dies-drag-legend-san-francsico\">untimely death\u003c/a> of San Francisco drag icon Heklina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to pay a tribute to Heklina when we get to Union Square,” said MORE! at the start of the rally. “I’ve known Heklina since ’94 or ’95. We’ve done a lot of things together that were so much fun and so crazy, and I was part of T-Shack the whole time that she ran it. I loved her very much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946115\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946115\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a suit and with a beard smiles at the camera surrounded by fellow ralliers. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Michael-Chua-center-chats-with-friends-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-Chua-is-the-elected-reigning-emperor-of-the-Imperial-Council-of-San-Francisco.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Chua (center) chats with friends at San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023. Chua is the elected reigning emperor of the Imperial Council of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the ACLU, statehouses nationwide have seen a record \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights\">452 anti-LGBTQ+ bills\u003c/a> this year alone, many of them targeting drag performances, trans people’s access to medical care and other rights. A greater threat, LGBTQ+ rights supporters point out, is the prospect that backers of these bills in state legislatures are intent on taking their efforts to the federal level. News of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946073/texas-judge-halts-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-mifepristone-newsom-slams-ruling\">a Texas federal judge ordering a hold on federal approval of a widely used and effective abortion pill\u003c/a> on Friday added to the sense of urgency Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve already introduced bills in Congress to attack LGBTQ people to replicate what they’re doing in red states,” said Wiener. “Those bills currently are not gonna go anywhere, because we control the Senate and the White House. But if the Republicans take over both the Congress and the presidency in the future, they will absolutely pass these laws into effect nationally. And so they are coming at us here in California. We’re already seeing this with abortion, that they’re trying to effectively ban abortion pills nationwide. They will do the same with respect to LGBTQ people. This is our fight, and it’s our fight everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946116\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946116\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold signs as they march.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Mickey-Skinner-center-holds-a-sign-reading-22If-it-werent-for-the-drag-queen-who-raised-me-I-would-be-dead22-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023._.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mickey Skinner (center) holds a sign reading, ‘If it weren’t for the drag queens who raised me, I would be dead,’ at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ march in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have different states who are bringing legislation because they feel threatened against people who are in drag or people who are trans,” said rally attendee and transgender rights supporter Stanley Wong. “There needs to be more visibility and more activism to educate people that we are in this community and not a threat. Guns are more of a threat to us than people wearing attire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946133\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man smiles at the camera wearing a yellow fluorescent vest and a bus in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A6840.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanley Wong at San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023. ‘Drag queens are not the people you should be worried about. In fact, they’re probably the people who are going to stand up,’ said Wong. ‘Look at what happened in Stonewall or before that at Compton’s Cafeteria here in San Francisco. There’s been a history of the drag community being very vocal and not taking it. So the march today also symbolizes that, that we aren’t going to just stand by and take it and be threatened by any of this.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just think that I need to be out here to support my drag sisters and my transgender brothers and sisters, and I just see what’s going on in so many states, and there’s even an anti-trans bill here in California that was introduced,” said rally attendee Brian Harradine. “People aren’t realizing how serious the attacks are. I’m hoping that this march and me participating in this march will encourage more people to wake up and take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946112\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man holds a sign that reads 'Drag is not a crime.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Brian-Harradine-holds-a-22Drag-is-not-a-crime22-sign-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023_.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rally attendee Brian Harradine holds a ‘Drag is not a crime’ sign at San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023. ‘When I’m feeling really down, I know I can go to a drag performance and feel better,’ said Harradine. ‘When I feel the world is against me. I can go to a drag performance and just feel that I’m safe. I’m welcome.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think all of the movements are connected and the true fight is always intersectional,” said rally attendee Rose Tinani. “When you’re fighting for human rights, you’re fighting for all human rights. You are fighting for Black people, you are fighting for people of color, you’re fighting against anti-trans and anti-queer rights. You’re fighting for all of them, for our right to live as we deem appropriate, not as some white cis men deem appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman with a face mask, a south Asian woman and an Asian man smiles for the camera with people behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/From-left-Celine-Nghiem-Rose-Tinani-and-Tahoe-Roe-gather-for-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-march-at-San-Francisco-City-Hall-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-_.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Celine Nghiem, Rose Tinani and Tahoe Roe gather for the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ march at San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023. ‘I’m here because we need queer people and queer allies to be showing up and fighting and knowing that this is a fight that will be fought at the ballot box, but it’s not going to end at the ballot box,’ said Tahoe Roe. ‘And so we all need to be here and ready to fight.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What’s bringing me to this rally today? I think it’s ridiculous that people who have positions of power are utilizing it to diminish the humanity of the queer community as a whole,” said Shane Zaldivar, who identifies as both a drag queen and a trans woman. There are people out there just trying to make other people’s lives harder when it’s hard enough … It feels like lives are at stake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A trans person on stage performs in drag with rainbow wings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023.-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Shane-Zaldivar-performs-as-the-Pop-Up-Drag-Queen-at-the-Drag-Up-Fight-Back-rally-at-Union-Square-in-San-Francisco-on-Saturday-April-8-2023..jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shane Zaldivar performs as the Pop Up Drag Queen at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ rally at Union Square in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. ‘I’ve been performing publicly on the streets of San Francisco for maybe seven years now,’ said Zaldivar. ‘I like to just show joy. I like to engage with people … to show that drag and gender expression is not something that needs to be feared. It can be beautiful, it can be joyful, it can be silly.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[This] march is to show the country and the world that the LGBTQ community is not taking this lying down and that drag queens will not be silenced and we will not go back into the closet,” said Mahogany in a previous interview with KQED. “We will not be relegated to just the back of a dark room in a club. We are here as a part of the community, we’re here to stay, and we’re gonna fight back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946129\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Black trans woman with a black top hat and black dress speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/D7A7310.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Mahogany speaks at the ‘Drag Up! Fight Back!’ rally at Union Square in San Francisco on Saturday, April 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by Attila Pelit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nvoynovskaya\">Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/afinney\">Annelise Finney\u003c/a> of KQED with photos by Estefany Gonzalez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n San Francisco's Mission District, three newly built backyard cottages are ready for older adults and lower-income families. But, no one will be able to move in for the foreseeable future: Even though electrical wiring is installed, the apartments don't have power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive Director Sam Moss of the Mission Housing Development Corporation is proud of what his nonprofit has built on property the organization owns. The new homes are within walking distance of two BART stations, major bus lines and grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mission Housing figured out how to convert our garages with our own funds,\" he said. \"We did not go to any government agency and ask for a grant. If that isn't what we need right now in our housing crisis, then I don't know what it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, during a recent meeting between Mission Housing and PG&E, an inspector told Moss he didn't know when the company would be able to connect the buildings, due to internal delays at PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then he left, with no explanation and no estimation of when someone was going to come,\" Moss said. \"We're talking about three very high-quality, 100% affordable units for seniors and low-income families [that are] just going to sit vacant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for PG&E said the company needed more information about this project before it could respond. But after KQED inquired about it, Moss said Mission Housing received a call from a PG&E inspector saying they would come to the construction site in mid-April to reassess the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connecting new buildings to the grid is a problem developers say is not unique to PG&E, but they cite the company as the worst offender — with delays that can add months or even years to a project before it opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a new issue, but developers like Moss say it's exacerbated by pandemic-induced supply chain problems, coupled with the increasing severity of storms and wildfires, and more demand for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener\"]'PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid.'[/pullquote]As California attempts to build 2.5 million homes by 2031, developers say utility companies will have to adhere to a stricter timeline to get more housing completed faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, SB 83, attempts to do just that. It would set an eight-week deadline for utility companies to connect newly constructed buildings. If a project is delayed further, the company would have to bear the cost, which is currently borne by the developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not asking for perfection,\" Wiener said. \"PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid. There has to be a more structured system. 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For PG&E, the average was 64 days. As of mid-February, the wait time for nearly 30% of new buildings under PG&E's purview was more than 90 days, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Wiener's perspective, this is a problem of the utility behemoth's own making, in part because it expanded services across the state and because it's the only utility company most developers can work with in the areas it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was PG&E's decision to become unsustainably large,\" Wiener said. \"To complain that, 'We don't have the resources because we're so big, which is a choice that we made,' is not a convincing argument.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11938267 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/026_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-1020x680.jpg']Others take a more sympathetic approach. Corey Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Action Coalition, which is co-sponsoring the bill, said the company is struggling to replace aging equipment as it responds to increasingly severe wildfires and storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite literally the person power and where to send a finite number of employees with aging infrastructure,\" Smith said. \"It's a real challenge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provides electricity to more than \u003ca href=\"//www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">5.5 million customers\u003c/a> across the state, in a service area that stretches across 70,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has so much power – both literally and figuratively – many developers refused to speak with KQED on the record out of fear of retribution. Moss is worried about that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm worried about the real retribution, which is units not coming online,\" he said. \"It's seniors remaining homeless, families and kids remaining homeless because PG&E refuses to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A black hole'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting a housing project approved and ready to start construction is arduous enough, but developers say connecting to the grid adds its own complexity: It involves a slew of paperwork, permits and approvals. There's an initial inspection, and then developers submit formal plans to the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting PG&E inspectors out to construction sites has become frustrating. Larry Florin, CEO of nonprofit affordable housing developer Burbank Housing, said he scheduled an inspector to come to a site in Napa County earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of the inspection, Florin got a call saying PG&E was dealing with weather issues they had to tend to first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The earliest they could come back would be six weeks,\" he said. \"We're constantly dealing with issues like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paulo said that while PG&E wants to work closely with developers and builders, responding to more frequent weather events and natural disasters has \"required significant financial and workforce resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This work, compounded with a significant growth in electric demand after decades of flat demand, has resulted in some projects being delayed or rescheduled,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Florin said there are other ways PG&E can hold up a project. Once an inspector is able to sign off on plans, and a building gets built, developers have to order specialized equipment to hook up the building to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not always clear what equipment is needed. PG&E's requirements change from one project to another, Florin said, and the company often doesn't provide proper guidance, leaving developers like Burbank in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you reach out to PG&E, it's like a black hole,\" he said. \"You get nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss said that lack of communication can lead to expensive, mid-construction changes that are especially challenging for nonprofit housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When PG&E comes and says, 'Actually, you've got to move this over here,' it might sound like one quick little change, but one little change has a domino effect,\" he said. \"And then your whole schedule is thrown off. And with especially 100% affordable housing, we don't have the ability to spend an extra million dollars in change orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']Moss faced just such a situation recently with a project Mission Housing is currently building adjacent to the Balboa Park BART station. The nonprofit needed temporary power to build 131 affordable apartments there. Moss said they waited almost a year for PG&E to provide a cost estimate to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), which buys wholesale power from PG&E, so SFPUC could turn on the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Melissa Subbotin said, at that point, “SFPUC did not authorize PG&E to proceed with temporary generation on this project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Moss said that’s because PG&E also required Mission Housing to make expensive changes to the project in order to do that. He called upon elected officials to pressure PG&E to work out a compromise with the SFPUC, including Wiener and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who sent letters to the utility. But it was to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars building [the units] on generators,\" Moss said. \"We had to spend money on generators and fuel all because PG&E refused to get power to build this building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the project was initially proposed, Mission Housing envisioned including a child care facility along with retail space on the ground floor. Now that's in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have significantly less money from the overall construction loan to build out our ground floor spaces because we had to spend it on fuel,\" he said. \"Mission Housing is coming out of pocket to pay for things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is nearing completion, and the nonprofit hopes to begin leasing the apartments in June. But it still hasn't been hooked up to the grid, and Moss isn't sure when it will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the uncertainty that's the hardest thing to deal with,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include responses from PG&E representatives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Others take a more sympathetic approach. Corey Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Action Coalition, which is co-sponsoring the bill, said the company is struggling to replace aging equipment as it responds to increasingly severe wildfires and storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite literally the person power and where to send a finite number of employees with aging infrastructure,\" Smith said. \"It's a real challenge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provides electricity to more than \u003ca href=\"//www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">5.5 million customers\u003c/a> across the state, in a service area that stretches across 70,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has so much power – both literally and figuratively – many developers refused to speak with KQED on the record out of fear of retribution. Moss is worried about that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm worried about the real retribution, which is units not coming online,\" he said. \"It's seniors remaining homeless, families and kids remaining homeless because PG&E refuses to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A black hole'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting a housing project approved and ready to start construction is arduous enough, but developers say connecting to the grid adds its own complexity: It involves a slew of paperwork, permits and approvals. There's an initial inspection, and then developers submit formal plans to the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting PG&E inspectors out to construction sites has become frustrating. Larry Florin, CEO of nonprofit affordable housing developer Burbank Housing, said he scheduled an inspector to come to a site in Napa County earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of the inspection, Florin got a call saying PG&E was dealing with weather issues they had to tend to first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The earliest they could come back would be six weeks,\" he said. \"We're constantly dealing with issues like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paulo said that while PG&E wants to work closely with developers and builders, responding to more frequent weather events and natural disasters has \"required significant financial and workforce resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This work, compounded with a significant growth in electric demand after decades of flat demand, has resulted in some projects being delayed or rescheduled,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Florin said there are other ways PG&E can hold up a project. Once an inspector is able to sign off on plans, and a building gets built, developers have to order specialized equipment to hook up the building to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not always clear what equipment is needed. PG&E's requirements change from one project to another, Florin said, and the company often doesn't provide proper guidance, leaving developers like Burbank in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you reach out to PG&E, it's like a black hole,\" he said. \"You get nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss said that lack of communication can lead to expensive, mid-construction changes that are especially challenging for nonprofit housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When PG&E comes and says, 'Actually, you've got to move this over here,' it might sound like one quick little change, but one little change has a domino effect,\" he said. \"And then your whole schedule is thrown off. And with especially 100% affordable housing, we don't have the ability to spend an extra million dollars in change orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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This I will continue to do as a member of the House,” she said. “For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic Caucus that I so deeply respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s announcement comes on the heels of her party losing the House majority, by the narrowest of margins, to Republicans in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932477/republicans-narrowly-retake-control-of-the-house-setting-up-divided-government\">the midterm elections\u003c/a>, and less than a month after her husband was brutally attacked in their San Francisco home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi became speaker in 2007, the first woman to rise to that level of power in Congress. She led the House until Republicans retook the chamber in 2011. With the House Democrats returning to power in 2019, she reassumed the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her skill at drumming up support for milestone legislative efforts elevated the speaker’s role, and helped bring San Francisco to the national stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1593287679604670466\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republicans have often tried to tar Pelosi as an out-of-touch San Franciscan, she’s never shied away from representing the city. For years, she has proudly\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/barb_kinney/status/1541478084196503552\"> wielded a rainbow gavel\u003c/a> in the city’s annual Pride Parade, and \u003ca href=\"https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-remarks-at-media-availability-following-visit-to-san-francisco-s\">spoke openly of a need to frequent San Francisco’s Chinatown businesses\u003c/a>, even as anti-Asian hate and COVID-19 fears began to swell early in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come here quite a bit. We’re a big dim sum family. And, part of our Thanksgiving celebration is always to have dim sum,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/22420\">she said in February 2020\u003c/a>. “So, I feel very at home here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom touched on her commitment to local issues, in a statement, saying “During her three decades of service in the House, Speaker Pelosi has shaped California and the nation for the better — and generations to come will benefit from her work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her larger-than-life career, or perhaps because of it, rumors of Pelosi’s departure from public office have surfaced for years, ebbing and flowing alongside Democrats’ power in Washington. A bevy of San Francisco Democrats have long been floated as potential runners for her congressional seat when she retires, including state Sen. 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I think there are very few people in our country who are as skilled as a tactician and strategist as she is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Ag8XCVjDs_I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those whispers of retirement grew considerably louder last month after an attacker, allegedly energized by right-wing conspiracy theories, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930397/nancy-pelosis-husband-assaulted-in-san-francisco-break-in\">invaded her Pacific Heights home\u003c/a> and bludgeoned her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer, fracturing his skull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the House floor, Pelosi only briefly touched on the assault, thanking her colleagues for their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you. We are grateful for all the prayers and well-wishes as he continues his recovery. Thank you so much,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her political life blossomed in San Francisco, Pelosi hails from Baltimore. She was raised \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11776832/speaker-nancy-pelosi-was-made-for-this-moment\">in a political family\u003c/a>: Her father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., was a congressman and served as mayor of Baltimore, as did her brother, Thomas D’Alesandro III.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A devout Catholic, Pelosi brought that spirit of faith and public service to San Francisco when she moved there with her husband in 1969. The couple had four daughters and a son within six years. But even as a young mother, Pelosi carved out time to volunteer for Democratic candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She later became chair of the California Democratic Party and, in that role, lured the Democratic National Convention to San Francisco in 1984. Two years later, she helped Democrats win back the Senate by chairing their national fundraising efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/365515236284964864\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi went from the periphery of politics to center stage in 1986, when she decided to run for Congress in what became a bruising campaign. In a raucous debate just before that election, Pelosi was branded by some opponents as a lightweight and a wealthy political dilettante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she won the seat — one she has held ever since — and quickly established her reputation as a skilled negotiator and tactician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s years of whipping votes proved vital in pushing major Democratic wins across the finish line, from President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul, to an $800 billion stimulus measure during the last great recession, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11521-5\">President Joe Biden’s recent “Build Back Better” bill\u003c/a> to repair national infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when President Donald Trump took office in 2017, Pelosi became \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11776832/speaker-nancy-pelosi-was-made-for-this-moment\">the first line of defense\u003c/a> against a leader who tested the guardrails of democracy, calling repeatedly for his impeachment and decrying his abuse of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11932575 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Pelosi stands on the floor of the House dressed in white, in a long shot showing her colleagues applauding her around her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks from the House of Representatives floor on Nov. 17, 2022, in Washington, DC. 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Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that he signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107\">Senate Bill 107\u003c/a>, legislation that provides legal protections for transgender kids and their parents who come to the state after facing criminal prosecution or being threatened with forcible separation in other states.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“In California we believe in equality and acceptance,” Newsom said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SB-107-SIGNING.pdf?emrc=1a80c5\">signing statement\u003c/a>. “We believe that no one should be prosecuted or persecuted for getting the care they need – including gender-affirming care.” The new law takes effect Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Kathie Moehlig’s 11-year-old son decided to transition in 2012, she says not one doctor in San Diego was willing to treat him. “When I called to make appointments, they kept telling me, ‘We don’t treat kids like that here,’” Moehlig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she continued making calls, eventually breaking through at Rady Children’s Hospital. Her efforts drew attention from other families of transgender kids, many of whom began asking her for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She decided she “couldn’t just be a family friend,” so eight years ago she started \u003ca href=\"https://transfamilysos.org/\">TransFamily Support Services\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that offers a multitude of services to hundreds of families of transgender individuals across the country, including support groups, assistance navigating the medical system and — most recently — political advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TransFamily Support Services co-sponsored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107&showamends=false\">Senate Bill 107\u003c/a>, designed to protect from prosecution patients who travel to California for what supporters call gender-affirming care and doctors who provide that care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly gave its final approval to the bill in a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107\">60-19 vote\u003c/a>. The Senate went along on a 30-9 vote, sending the bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed it September 29. The new law will take effect Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener, author of SB 107\"]‘As so many states work to erase trans kids and criminalize their families, California must always have their backs.’[/pullquote]The bill will make California \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20220803-senator-wiener%E2%80%99s-bill-provide-refuge-trans-kids-and-their-families-passes-final\">a refuge for minors seeking gender-affirming care\u003c/a>, similar to how \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1666\">Assembly Bill 1666\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/abortion-rights/2022/06/california-abortion-roe-ruling/\">Newsom signed into law in June\u003c/a>, made the state a refuge for those seeking abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will send a very clear message that trans kids and their families, if they don’t feel safe in their state, they can come here and we’ll do everything in our power to protect them from prosecution,” state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat and the bill’s author, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As so many states work to erase trans kids and criminalize their families, California must always have their backs,” Wiener said in a statement on Friday after Newsom signed the bill. “With SB 107 signed into law, California is forcefully pushing back against the anti-LGBTQ hatred spreading across parts of our nation. The rainbow wave is real, and it’s coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state Sen. Melissa Melendez, a Lake Elsinore Republican, said the bill interferes with the relationship between parents and their transgender children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t disagree that we should make sure that kids in this category are protected, and not bullied, and not harassed, and provided some understanding and certainly any medical attention mental-health-wise that they may need,” she said during the floor debate. “But I don’t think the state of California should be stepping in and facilitating that. That’s not our place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to the bill-signing, Jonathan Keller, president of the California Family Council, said, “By signing this extreme bill, Gavin Newsom is telling all parents across the country that he knows what’s best for their children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tony Hoang, executive director of Equality California, countered in a statement: “While small, hateful men like Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis attack trans children and their families, Governor Newsom today made clear that California will welcome them with open arms. SB 107 officially makes California a state of refuge for trans kids and their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A national wave\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill, perhaps the highest-profile of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=News&sc=Latest%20News&id=318471\">several LGBTQ-related proposals\u003c/a> also sent to Newsom, responds to a recent wave of legislation: \u003ca href=\"https://freedomforallamericans.org/legislative-tracker/medical-care-bans/\">At least 40 bills in 20 states\u003c/a> would restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. These proposals vary from an Idaho bill to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/03/11/idaho-transgender-medical-treatment-bill/\">criminalize gender-affirming medical procedures\u003c/a> to a Florida law \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/11/florida-finalizes-ban-medicaid-transgender-treatments-00051259\">banning their insurance coverage\u003c/a>. In Texas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/gov-abbotts-order-to-investigate-trans-youth-elicited-anger-confusion-inside-state-protective-services-internal-emails-open-records/287-f42c4255-4a31-4a32-a63c-83ecb7de0d1b\">state social workers are reportedly rebelling\u003c/a> — or even threatening to quit — rather than carry out an order by Gov. Greg Abbott to investigate parents who allow transgender health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the bill say it is California’s responsibility to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are efforts all across the country … to go after trans kids and their families. California has a role to play in providing a safe, welcoming environment for trans kids and their families to get the care they need,” said Samuel Garrett-Pate, managing director of external affairs for Equality California, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.eqca.org/legislation/#\">supports the bill\u003c/a> and says it’s the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 107 will:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Prohibit law-enforcement participation and the arrest or extradition of an individual for allowing a person to receive or provide gender-affirming care when that care is legal under California and federal law.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Declare arrest warrants for individuals who allowed their child to receive gender-affirming health care the lowest law enforcement priority.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ban the enforcement of another state’s law authorizing a state agency to remove a child from their parent or guardian because they allowed their child to receive gender-affirming care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bar compliance with subpoenas seeking medical information related to gender-affirming care that interferes with a person’s right to allow a child to receive that care.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“As it stands, transgender youth and their parents in these states are under a constant threat of being reported by anyone around them, while forgoing life-saving treatment,” said Assemblymember Lori Wilson, a Suisun City Democrat and parent of a trans person, in presenting the bill on the Assembly floor. “In doing so, they are targeting our most vulnerable population — children — as well as their parents and doctors who support them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11927340\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Person wearing brightly colored clothing holds large sign in middle of large street during large-scale street march\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A participant in the Trans March carries a sign that says ‘Fight for Trans Rights, Fight for Abortion Access for All’ in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Foes raise concerns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By leaning into the national debate around transgender issues, the bill has generated intense opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents say that children often misunderstand their gender identity and are likely to regret their decision to get irreversible treatments such as hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of kids don’t quite comprehend the implications of taking puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even some of the surgeries; don’t comprehend the long-term nature and the damaging effect it would have on their on their bodies when they were minors,” said Greg Burt, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafamily.org/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgohkz22Fg\">testimony from Chloe Cole\u003c/a> before the Assembly Public Safety Committee on June 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SB 107 is circumventing states’ laws and that have needed safeguards in place so my story’s not repeated. Children cannot consent,” said Cole, a 17-year-old from the Central Valley, who medically transitioned from age 13 to 15 with puberty blockers, male hormones and a mastectomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given this, Burt said the religious nonprofit “would be against any kind of drugs or surgeries to try and match a person’s body to their feelings below the age of 18,” regardless of parental consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t let parents sterilize their kids, even if parents consent to it, and we think this is in the same category,” Burt said. “You can’t harm your child permanently, even if you believe the harm is somehow justified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sen. Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat who is also a pediatrician, said the medical profession does not recommend surgery for transgender individuals under the age of 18. During a floor debate, he cited research showing that the majority of children who question their gender identity do not change their minds and that the majority of treatments provided to transgender youth are reversible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='transgender']Opponents also highlight a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107&showamends=false\">clause in the bill\u003c/a> that they say \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafamily.org/2022/08/california-parents-fight-back-against-gender-transition-bills/\">could take custody rights away\u003c/a> from an out-of-state parent who disagrees with the other on their child’s gender-affirming care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Friday, a San Francisco attorney and parent of a child who once wanted to transition, said that the clause “pits parents against parents” by allowing an out-of-state parent to refile for full medical custody of their child in California and eclipse the consent of the non-affirming parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes it easier for the one parent who wants to harm their child to harm their child, and it’s an enticement for kids to run away. There’s no two ways about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener’s office disputes that this is the bill’s intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of the bill is not to remove kids from their parents’ custody — not when parents come here with their kids to prevent states like Texas from removing them from their custody,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Helping families, one at a time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the political debate rages on, Moehlig and her staff of 10 continue their work, helping families across the U.S. figure out the best doctor and how to get insurance coverage, and providing support groups for people from elementary school age to age 30. She says her group has assisted 3,000 families in its lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That work convinces her of the importance of the bill. 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That’s not our place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to the bill-signing, Jonathan Keller, president of the California Family Council, said, “By signing this extreme bill, Gavin Newsom is telling all parents across the country that he knows what’s best for their children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tony Hoang, executive director of Equality California, countered in a statement: “While small, hateful men like Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis attack trans children and their families, Governor Newsom today made clear that California will welcome them with open arms. SB 107 officially makes California a state of refuge for trans kids and their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A national wave\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill, perhaps the highest-profile of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=News&sc=Latest%20News&id=318471\">several LGBTQ-related proposals\u003c/a> also sent to Newsom, responds to a recent wave of legislation: \u003ca href=\"https://freedomforallamericans.org/legislative-tracker/medical-care-bans/\">At least 40 bills in 20 states\u003c/a> would restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. These proposals vary from an Idaho bill to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/03/11/idaho-transgender-medical-treatment-bill/\">criminalize gender-affirming medical procedures\u003c/a> to a Florida law \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/11/florida-finalizes-ban-medicaid-transgender-treatments-00051259\">banning their insurance coverage\u003c/a>. 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California has a role to play in providing a safe, welcoming environment for trans kids and their families to get the care they need,” said Samuel Garrett-Pate, managing director of external affairs for Equality California, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.eqca.org/legislation/#\">supports the bill\u003c/a> and says it’s the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 107 will:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Prohibit law-enforcement participation and the arrest or extradition of an individual for allowing a person to receive or provide gender-affirming care when that care is legal under California and federal law.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Declare arrest warrants for individuals who allowed their child to receive gender-affirming health care the lowest law enforcement priority.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ban the enforcement of another state’s law authorizing a state agency to remove a child from their parent or guardian because they allowed their child to receive gender-affirming care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bar compliance with subpoenas seeking medical information related to gender-affirming care that interferes with a person’s right to allow a child to receive that care.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“As it stands, transgender youth and their parents in these states are under a constant threat of being reported by anyone around them, while forgoing life-saving treatment,” said Assemblymember Lori Wilson, a Suisun City Democrat and parent of a trans person, in presenting the bill on the Assembly floor. “In doing so, they are targeting our most vulnerable population — children — as well as their parents and doctors who support them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11927340\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Person wearing brightly colored clothing holds large sign in middle of large street during large-scale street march\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56923_018_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A participant in the Trans March carries a sign that says ‘Fight for Trans Rights, Fight for Abortion Access for All’ in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Foes raise concerns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By leaning into the national debate around transgender issues, the bill has generated intense opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents say that children often misunderstand their gender identity and are likely to regret their decision to get irreversible treatments such as hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of kids don’t quite comprehend the implications of taking puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even some of the surgeries; don’t comprehend the long-term nature and the damaging effect it would have on their on their bodies when they were minors,” said Greg Burt, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafamily.org/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgohkz22Fg\">testimony from Chloe Cole\u003c/a> before the Assembly Public Safety Committee on June 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SB 107 is circumventing states’ laws and that have needed safeguards in place so my story’s not repeated. Children cannot consent,” said Cole, a 17-year-old from the Central Valley, who medically transitioned from age 13 to 15 with puberty blockers, male hormones and a mastectomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given this, Burt said the religious nonprofit “would be against any kind of drugs or surgeries to try and match a person’s body to their feelings below the age of 18,” regardless of parental consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t let parents sterilize their kids, even if parents consent to it, and we think this is in the same category,” Burt said. “You can’t harm your child permanently, even if you believe the harm is somehow justified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sen. Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat who is also a pediatrician, said the medical profession does not recommend surgery for transgender individuals under the age of 18. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Franciscans rallied against fentanyl Sunday at an event marking National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day — but even as they stood at City Hall in unity over a broader shared goal, opinions split over a bill that would allow the city to create safe injection sites for drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally was hosted by Mothers Against Drug Deaths, an advocacy group that favors stricter penalties for drug users; group members argue that supervised injection sites will worsen addictions. But local officials are mostly in favor of the sites, arguing that pilot programs in the country and a growing body of science show \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/07/645609248/whats-the-evidence-that-supervised-drug-injection-sites-save-lives\">they prevent deaths among drug users\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, even District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who has billed herself as tough on crime, has said she’s in favor of such spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11922301,news_11691210,news_11911092\"]Safe injection sites, which are controversial because they allow drugs to be consumed on-site under the supervision of health care workers, may soon be a reality in California. Senate Bill 57, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would allow a pilot program for safe injection sites to move forward in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles. Several elected leaders who took part in Sunday’s event said they support the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to announce his decision either to sign or veto the bill on Monday, timing that the rally’s organizers used to deliver their message against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscan Tanya Tilghman told the crowd her son became addicted to drugs after seeking prescription drug treatment for his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Their family’s life soon spiraled into chaos, she said, including an incident where her son held himself hostage in North Beach until more than 15 SFPD officers managed to talk him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her experience sharpened her opposition to SB 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a mother, and I do kind of have an idea. Maybe we shouldn’t be passing SB 57 and funding it. Maybe we should take the money and put it into residential treatment programs and rehabilitation,” said Tilghman, one of several speakers at the rally who spoke out against the bill. She said putting government resources toward such sites was akin to “saying that it is OK to use illegal drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11923138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507.jpg\" alt=\"a line of women prepare to speak on the steps of San Francisco City Hall at a rally against fentanyl deaths\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moms Against Drug Deaths hold a City Hall rally to raise awareness for fentanyl deaths in San Francisco on Aug. 21. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials who spoke at the rally — including Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey in addition to Jenkins — said they support the group's larger aim: to prevent drug deaths. But all three also told KQED they back supervised injection sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman, for his part, said speaking at a rally held by Mothers Against Drug Deaths was natural for him as he pushes for more ways to ease suffering on San Francisco streets — even if he does believe in safe injection sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't have to agree on everything,” he said, “but we're real strong allies around a whole bunch of stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Walking a fine political line\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jenkins might be in a more sensitive political position as she runs to keep the seat to which she was appointed following the recall of her predecessor, Chesa Boudin. Perhaps in recognition of that, she walked a particularly fine line at the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the podium, Jenkins promised Mothers Against Drug Deaths her support of their broader efforts to curb drug use, and promoted her \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/press-release/district-attorney-brooke-jenkins-announces-new-policy-to-hold-drug-dealers-accountable-revokes-misdemeanor-plea-offers-for-fentanyl-dealers/\">newly announced policy to revoke misdemeanor plea deals for fentanyl dealers\u003c/a>. She avoided the topic of supervised consumption sites in her speech, while advocates who spoke touched on it repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drug sales is not a victimless crime. And I think today really tells the story of how many people have been victims of this illegal conduct,” Jenkins told the crowd of about 50 people. “Yes, we are in a war against fentanyl. We are in a war against making sure that our children don't get what looks like candy in their hands, but that will kill them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when asked if she supports SB 57, Jenkins told KQED in an interview that she does support safe injection sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree with safe injection sites, safe consumption sites. We need to be saving lives. We're in a different universe right now. You know, 10 years ago, we didn't have as lethal a drug as fentanyl on the market,” she said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brooke Jenkins, San Francisco district attorney\"]'I agree with safe injection sites, safe consumption sites. We need to be saving lives.'[/pullquote]Appearing at a rally championed by a group so staunchly against safe consumption sites may be a natural choice for a district attorney who has branded herself as a bastion of law and order, and depends on supporters who value that punishment-focused message. In public statements made against former DA Chesa Boudin, Jenkins criticized his policies as sending a message that San Francisco wouldn’t prosecute crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet she also needs the support of politicos like Mayor London Breed, who has been a longtime champion of legalizing safe injection sites, and Sen. Wiener, who authored the safe injection sites bill and also endorsed Jenkins. Breed appointed Jenkins as district attorney after Boudin was recalled in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed believes in safe injection sites so strongly, she touted them in her \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/mayor-london-n-breeds-2020-inauguration-speech\">2020 inauguration speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working to open meth sobering centers, safe injection sites and managed alcohol facilities so we can stop walking by addiction spilling out on our streets, and start treating it like the health care issue that it is,” Breed said at the steps of City Hall in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason McDaniel, associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, said navigating those differing viewpoints may test Jenkins’ relationships with major supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is perhaps risky to create the possibility of daylight between her view and important supporters,” McDaniel said. “I think it is a recognition that this is a difficult issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Painful personal histories\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s also an issue that has affected a growing number of families. There were \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/resource/2020/ocme-accidental-overdose-reports\">641 accidental drug overdose deaths in San Francisco in 2021, and more than 300 so far this year\u003c/a>, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The majority of those overdoses came from fentanyl use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keneda Gibson of Oakland, who spoke at the San Francisco rally Sunday, said her younger brother fell into drug addiction after being treated for gunshot wounds with opiates. The medical system failed him, she said, and he found himself in San Francisco seeking drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had gone to seek heroin in the streets,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, she said, someone mistakenly informed her family that he had died. They searched in San Francisco and Oakland looking for John Doe's who fit his description. Her family mourned him. It was only later that someone reached out and said they had found him alive. But his quality of life and his drug addiction were still daunting, she said, and sent her family into a depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she supported SB 57, Gibson said, “I think that Governor Newsom is absolutely insane for even considering such an idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11923139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401.jpg\" alt='a sign that reads \"What has fentanyl stolen from you?\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign produced by Moms Against Drug Deaths at a City Hall rally to raise awareness for fentanyl deaths in San Francisco on Aug. 21. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gibson hopes California studies the use of psychedelics to aid those suffering from addiction. (Studying the broader benefits of psychedelics is another effort by Sen. Wiener, in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.marijuanamoment.net/california-senator-gives-up-psychedelics-reform-push-for-2022-after-bill-gutted-by-key-committee/\">Senate Bill 519\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe consumption sites have long been controversial because they allow drugs to be consumed on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet because safe consumption sites are usually staffed with medical professionals and social workers — people who can connect drug users to services and administer lifesaving treatments if someone overdoses — the sites have been hailed by proponents for saving lives and for allowing opportunities for drug users to end the cycle of addiction. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/supervised-drug-use-sites/\">Two such sites opened in New York City last year\u003c/a> to much fanfare, and more than 100 sites exist around the world. San Francisco has considered the use of safe consumption sites for close to a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Grantz, a co-founder of Mothers Against Drug Deaths, told KQED she believes SB 57 is “premature at best.” The group would prefer the state focus on committing more resources to preventing the epidemic of drug use, instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that there are people who are trying to get clean. They actually have appointments with treatment intake, but they're being turned away from their appointment because there isn't enough staff,” Grantz said. “So before doing something else around helping people to use a safe consumption site, we want these treatment issues to be addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Jenkins appeared on those same steps with a group that decries the use of safe injection sites. The day before they met at City Hall’s steps, Grantz of Mothers Against Drug Deaths praised Jenkins for agreeing to appear at their event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're super excited to have her, also talking about what her role is in helping to address the fentanyl situation and the drug overdose situation,” Grantz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Annelise Finney contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Franciscans rallied against fentanyl Sunday at an event marking National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day — but even as they stood at City Hall in unity over a broader shared goal, opinions split over a bill that would allow the city to create safe injection sites for drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally was hosted by Mothers Against Drug Deaths, an advocacy group that favors stricter penalties for drug users; group members argue that supervised injection sites will worsen addictions. But local officials are mostly in favor of the sites, arguing that pilot programs in the country and a growing body of science show \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/07/645609248/whats-the-evidence-that-supervised-drug-injection-sites-save-lives\">they prevent deaths among drug users\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, even District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who has billed herself as tough on crime, has said she’s in favor of such spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Safe injection sites, which are controversial because they allow drugs to be consumed on-site under the supervision of health care workers, may soon be a reality in California. Senate Bill 57, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would allow a pilot program for safe injection sites to move forward in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles. Several elected leaders who took part in Sunday’s event said they support the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to announce his decision either to sign or veto the bill on Monday, timing that the rally’s organizers used to deliver their message against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscan Tanya Tilghman told the crowd her son became addicted to drugs after seeking prescription drug treatment for his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Their family’s life soon spiraled into chaos, she said, including an incident where her son held himself hostage in North Beach until more than 15 SFPD officers managed to talk him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her experience sharpened her opposition to SB 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a mother, and I do kind of have an idea. Maybe we shouldn’t be passing SB 57 and funding it. Maybe we should take the money and put it into residential treatment programs and rehabilitation,” said Tilghman, one of several speakers at the rally who spoke out against the bill. She said putting government resources toward such sites was akin to “saying that it is OK to use illegal drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11923138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507.jpg\" alt=\"a line of women prepare to speak on the steps of San Francisco City Hall at a rally against fentanyl deaths\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57926_20220821_111507-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moms Against Drug Deaths hold a City Hall rally to raise awareness for fentanyl deaths in San Francisco on Aug. 21. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials who spoke at the rally — including Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey in addition to Jenkins — said they support the group's larger aim: to prevent drug deaths. But all three also told KQED they back supervised injection sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman, for his part, said speaking at a rally held by Mothers Against Drug Deaths was natural for him as he pushes for more ways to ease suffering on San Francisco streets — even if he does believe in safe injection sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't have to agree on everything,” he said, “but we're real strong allies around a whole bunch of stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Walking a fine political line\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jenkins might be in a more sensitive political position as she runs to keep the seat to which she was appointed following the recall of her predecessor, Chesa Boudin. Perhaps in recognition of that, she walked a particularly fine line at the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the podium, Jenkins promised Mothers Against Drug Deaths her support of their broader efforts to curb drug use, and promoted her \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/press-release/district-attorney-brooke-jenkins-announces-new-policy-to-hold-drug-dealers-accountable-revokes-misdemeanor-plea-offers-for-fentanyl-dealers/\">newly announced policy to revoke misdemeanor plea deals for fentanyl dealers\u003c/a>. She avoided the topic of supervised consumption sites in her speech, while advocates who spoke touched on it repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drug sales is not a victimless crime. And I think today really tells the story of how many people have been victims of this illegal conduct,” Jenkins told the crowd of about 50 people. “Yes, we are in a war against fentanyl. We are in a war against making sure that our children don't get what looks like candy in their hands, but that will kill them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when asked if she supports SB 57, Jenkins told KQED in an interview that she does support safe injection sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree with safe injection sites, safe consumption sites. We need to be saving lives. We're in a different universe right now. You know, 10 years ago, we didn't have as lethal a drug as fentanyl on the market,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Appearing at a rally championed by a group so staunchly against safe consumption sites may be a natural choice for a district attorney who has branded herself as a bastion of law and order, and depends on supporters who value that punishment-focused message. In public statements made against former DA Chesa Boudin, Jenkins criticized his policies as sending a message that San Francisco wouldn’t prosecute crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet she also needs the support of politicos like Mayor London Breed, who has been a longtime champion of legalizing safe injection sites, and Sen. Wiener, who authored the safe injection sites bill and also endorsed Jenkins. Breed appointed Jenkins as district attorney after Boudin was recalled in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed believes in safe injection sites so strongly, she touted them in her \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/mayor-london-n-breeds-2020-inauguration-speech\">2020 inauguration speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working to open meth sobering centers, safe injection sites and managed alcohol facilities so we can stop walking by addiction spilling out on our streets, and start treating it like the health care issue that it is,” Breed said at the steps of City Hall in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason McDaniel, associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, said navigating those differing viewpoints may test Jenkins’ relationships with major supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is perhaps risky to create the possibility of daylight between her view and important supporters,” McDaniel said. “I think it is a recognition that this is a difficult issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Painful personal histories\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s also an issue that has affected a growing number of families. There were \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/resource/2020/ocme-accidental-overdose-reports\">641 accidental drug overdose deaths in San Francisco in 2021, and more than 300 so far this year\u003c/a>, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The majority of those overdoses came from fentanyl use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keneda Gibson of Oakland, who spoke at the San Francisco rally Sunday, said her younger brother fell into drug addiction after being treated for gunshot wounds with opiates. The medical system failed him, she said, and he found himself in San Francisco seeking drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had gone to seek heroin in the streets,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, she said, someone mistakenly informed her family that he had died. They searched in San Francisco and Oakland looking for John Doe's who fit his description. Her family mourned him. It was only later that someone reached out and said they had found him alive. But his quality of life and his drug addiction were still daunting, she said, and sent her family into a depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she supported SB 57, Gibson said, “I think that Governor Newsom is absolutely insane for even considering such an idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11923139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401.jpg\" alt='a sign that reads \"What has fentanyl stolen from you?\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57927_20220821_105401-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign produced by Moms Against Drug Deaths at a City Hall rally to raise awareness for fentanyl deaths in San Francisco on Aug. 21. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gibson hopes California studies the use of psychedelics to aid those suffering from addiction. (Studying the broader benefits of psychedelics is another effort by Sen. Wiener, in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.marijuanamoment.net/california-senator-gives-up-psychedelics-reform-push-for-2022-after-bill-gutted-by-key-committee/\">Senate Bill 519\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe consumption sites have long been controversial because they allow drugs to be consumed on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet because safe consumption sites are usually staffed with medical professionals and social workers — people who can connect drug users to services and administer lifesaving treatments if someone overdoses — the sites have been hailed by proponents for saving lives and for allowing opportunities for drug users to end the cycle of addiction. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/supervised-drug-use-sites/\">Two such sites opened in New York City last year\u003c/a> to much fanfare, and more than 100 sites exist around the world. San Francisco has considered the use of safe consumption sites for close to a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Grantz, a co-founder of Mothers Against Drug Deaths, told KQED she believes SB 57 is “premature at best.” The group would prefer the state focus on committing more resources to preventing the epidemic of drug use, instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that there are people who are trying to get clean. They actually have appointments with treatment intake, but they're being turned away from their appointment because there isn't enough staff,” Grantz said. “So before doing something else around helping people to use a safe consumption site, we want these treatment issues to be addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Jenkins appeared on those same steps with a group that decries the use of safe injection sites. The day before they met at City Hall’s steps, Grantz of Mothers Against Drug Deaths praised Jenkins for agreeing to appear at their event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're super excited to have her, also talking about what her role is in helping to address the fentanyl situation and the drug overdose situation,” Grantz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday, the fifth day of an open-ended strike by Kaiser Permanente mental health workers across Northern California, some 200 employees and supporters marched to the health care giant’s Oakland headquarters, demanding that management increase staffing and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were among the roughly 2,000 Kaiser therapists, social workers and other mental health care staffers across Northern California — represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers — who formed picket lines outside Kaiser facilities this week, after negotiations with management ended without resolution last weekend. Those striking said employee morale is dangerously low and patient care has become substandard due to long wait times for treatment. [aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11922524,news_11922748,news_11921580\"] Kaiser officials have called the strike unethical to patients and counterproductive, pointing to the shortage of mental health professionals nationwide. A company representative declined to participate in an interview, citing ongoing negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But in a statement issued Friday, Deb Catsavas, senior vice president of human resources at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, reiterated the company’s stance that the strike and “disruption to patient care” were unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“While [the National Union of Healthcare Workers] claims it is fighting for increased access to care, its primary demand is for union members to spend less time seeing patients,” said Catsavas. “Our patients cannot afford a proposal that significantly reduces the time available to care for our patients and their mental health needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike comes amid what the White House has described as an unprecedented mental health crisis among Americans of all ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are Kaiser mental health care workers striking?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We’re striking because it’s demoralizing to work for a company that actively does things to capitalize on burnout,” Naomi Johnson, an associate clinical social worker for Kaiser, told KQED Forum. “We’re really working very hard as clinicians to try to see patients as frequently as we can, and to provide the care that we’re trained [for] and good at providing. And we’re not supported in doing that by the company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser tells patients that “if you have any sort of concerns or you want to come to therapy, please reach out,” added Johnson. “And then as providers, we’re told, ‘Only treat people who meet medical necessity.’ So it’s really difficult because we have this huge influx of people trying to seek services, but there aren’t enough of us to actually meet the demand, so we’re just completely overwhelmed. … We’re drowning, as clinicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923078\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a protest\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser mental health care workers rally before a march from Oakland Kaiser Medical Center to Kaiser’s corporate headquarters on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, the fifth day of an open-ended strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does understaffing affect patients seeking treatment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There are currently 2,600 Kaiser patients for every mental health worker in (the) Northern California Kaiser system,” Ilana Marcucci-Morris, a licensed clinical social worker in Kaiser’s psychiatry department in Oakland, told Forum. That means the average Kaiser therapist sees between seven and 12 patients per day, while someone in private practice might see between three and six. After a series of initial intake calls, the majority of Kaiser patients calling with a “nonurgent” need wait between two and three months to see a therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Union of Healthcare Workers points to \u003ca href=\"https://nuhw.org/more-than-2000-kaiser-permanente-mental-health-clinicians-to-start-open-ended-strike-august-15/\">internal Kaiser documents illustrating\u003c/a> that “patients who received an initial mental health assessment on June 13 weren’t scheduled for follow-up appointments for a month in San Francisco, more than two months in Sacramento and three months or more in other parts of Northern California.” That length of time, experts say, does a disservice to those who have already taken the often-difficult first step of seeking support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to help people get better and terminate,” said Marcucci-Morris. “But the system within Kaiser does not allow for that. It’s the opposite. People are waiting longer, and deteriorating to where they either give up and pay [for therapy] out of pocket, which sets up a system for folks who have those resources to pay a private practice therapist and get better.” She said people who can’t afford private therapy and insurance premiums aren’t able to get better. “They get worse and they stay in Kaiser and they just stay sick,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923083\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"protestors reflected in a bus window\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser mental health care workers and supporters hold signs on the picket line outside Oakland Kaiser Medical Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What is causing the understaffing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kaiser administrators point to what they describe as a nationwide staffing shortage. “Across the country, there are not enough mental health care professionals to meet the increased demand for care,” said Kaiser’s Catsavas in an Aug. 15 statement. “This has created challenges for Kaiser Permanente and mental health care providers everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company administrators say they have worked to combat the shortage by hiring new mental health clinicians, including nearly 200 new clinicians since January 2021; improving mental health care access through virtual care; and launching a $500,000 initiative to recruit new employees.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ilana Marcucci-Morris, Kaiser psychiatrist\"]‘There isn’t a shortage of clinicians. There’s only a shortage of clinicians that want to work for Kaiser.’[/pullquote]But those on strike said the severity of the shortage is specific to Kaiser, and that burnout and poor working conditions are contributing to low retention of existing employees, and making it difficult for the company to recruit new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a shortage of clinicians. There’s only a shortage of clinicians that want to work for Kaiser,” said Marcucci-Morris. “We get into this field to help people, and it’s hard to recruit therapists when Kaiser’s reputation is known to make people wait so long for therapy sessions. It’s really, really not ethical. And I personally have a handful of colleagues and friends who are therapists with time in their schedules who I’ve tried to recruit for Kaiser. But the reputation is just so poor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s more appealing, said those striking, for qualified therapists to work for a private practice. “Workers just don’t want to work for Kaiser anymore, and that’s the real crisis we’re facing,” said Marcucci-Morris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said the rate at which mental health clinicians are leaving Kaiser nearly doubled in the past year, with 668 clinicians leaving between June 2021 and May 2022, compared to 335 clinicians the previous year. In a union survey of 200 of those departing clinicians, 85% said they were leaving because their workload was unsustainable or because they felt they did not have enough time to complete the work, and 76% said they were unable to “treat patients in line with standards of care and medical necessity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to grow the mental health workforce, there’s no doubt about that,” California state Senator Scott Wiener told KQED Forum. “It is also the case that the shortage is not as severe right now as the health plans say … health plans can take steps to expand their workforce, including paying better, providing better reimbursements to private providers, and those are investments that they should be making that they have not made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s the case that they can just throw up their hands and say, we have some challenges with the workforce, and so therefore, we’re going to make people wait three months,” he added. “We have real shortages of physical health care providers, but we don’t tolerate around physical health what we have long tolerated around mental health, which is effectively denying people access to lifesaving care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a baby in a stroller as part of a protest \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser mental health care workers carry signs on the picket line outside Oakland Kaiser Medical Center on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, the fifth day of an open-ended strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Has California passed any recent laws to address this shortage?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB221/\">Senate Bill 221\u003c/a>, which passed in 2021 and went into effect July 1, 2022, said that “health plans, including Kaiser, must provide timely access to mental health and addiction treatment,” Senator Wiener told Forum. “And that means a prompt first visit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law codifies existing regulations from the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance that require a health care service plan or an insurer to ensure that “for an enrollee requesting a non-urgent appointment with a non-physician mental health care provider … appointments are offered within 10 business days of the request for an appointment.” Follow-up visits have to happen within two weeks, added Wiener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 858\u003c/a>, which recently passed on the California State Assembly floor and will now move to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, would update the way health insurance companies are fined for violations, something that hasn’t been updated or even adjusted for inflation since the 1970s, said Wiener. Currently, the maximum fine possible stands at $2,500 per violation; the bill, if passed, would increase that amount to $25,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that will create a much larger incentive to actually follow the law and provide people with timely and appropriate access to health care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What exactly are the strikers asking for? What’s the current status of negotiations?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In negotiations that led up to the strike, the National Union of Healthcare Workers accepted Kaiser’s wage-increase offer. But the union held fast on its demand that nine hours per week — up from the current six hours — be allotted for administrative work. Kaiser rejected that demand, arguing it would not leave adequate time to see patients. The company’s counteroffer, of an additional 1.2 hours for that work, was flatly rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wouldn’t be striking right now if money was the primary [issue],” said Marcucci-Morris, pointing to burnout, retention issues and poor morale — as well as what the union describes as the lack of a clear plan for how the company is going to meet the requirements laid out by SB 221.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to fix the problems to buy the therapists out and pay us more,” she said. “What good is more pay when you’re drowning and can’t come up for air?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How is the strike affecting patients in need of care?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is legally obligated to continue providing care for its members during a labor strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beginning this week, our patients will receive care from those mental health clinicians who choose patient needs over the strike, as well as from our psychiatrists, clinical managers, and other licensed professionals,” said Catsavas in a statement on the first day of the strike, while noting that “some nonurgent appointments may need to be rescheduled” and that patients whose appointments might be affected “will be directly contacted prior to the date of the appointment to ensure they receive the care they need.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Kaiser officials have called the strike unethical to patients and counterproductive, pointing to the shortage of mental health professionals nationwide. A company representative declined to participate in an interview, citing ongoing negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But in a statement issued Friday, Deb Catsavas, senior vice president of human resources at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, reiterated the company’s stance that the strike and “disruption to patient care” were unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“While [the National Union of Healthcare Workers] claims it is fighting for increased access to care, its primary demand is for union members to spend less time seeing patients,” said Catsavas. “Our patients cannot afford a proposal that significantly reduces the time available to care for our patients and their mental health needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike comes amid what the White House has described as an unprecedented mental health crisis among Americans of all ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are Kaiser mental health care workers striking?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We’re striking because it’s demoralizing to work for a company that actively does things to capitalize on burnout,” Naomi Johnson, an associate clinical social worker for Kaiser, told KQED Forum. “We’re really working very hard as clinicians to try to see patients as frequently as we can, and to provide the care that we’re trained [for] and good at providing. And we’re not supported in doing that by the company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser tells patients that “if you have any sort of concerns or you want to come to therapy, please reach out,” added Johnson. “And then as providers, we’re told, ‘Only treat people who meet medical necessity.’ So it’s really difficult because we have this huge influx of people trying to seek services, but there aren’t enough of us to actually meet the demand, so we’re just completely overwhelmed. … We’re drowning, as clinicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923078\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a protest\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57886_021_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser mental health care workers rally before a march from Oakland Kaiser Medical Center to Kaiser’s corporate headquarters on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, the fifth day of an open-ended strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does understaffing affect patients seeking treatment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There are currently 2,600 Kaiser patients for every mental health worker in (the) Northern California Kaiser system,” Ilana Marcucci-Morris, a licensed clinical social worker in Kaiser’s psychiatry department in Oakland, told Forum. That means the average Kaiser therapist sees between seven and 12 patients per day, while someone in private practice might see between three and six. After a series of initial intake calls, the majority of Kaiser patients calling with a “nonurgent” need wait between two and three months to see a therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Union of Healthcare Workers points to \u003ca href=\"https://nuhw.org/more-than-2000-kaiser-permanente-mental-health-clinicians-to-start-open-ended-strike-august-15/\">internal Kaiser documents illustrating\u003c/a> that “patients who received an initial mental health assessment on June 13 weren’t scheduled for follow-up appointments for a month in San Francisco, more than two months in Sacramento and three months or more in other parts of Northern California.” That length of time, experts say, does a disservice to those who have already taken the often-difficult first step of seeking support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to help people get better and terminate,” said Marcucci-Morris. “But the system within Kaiser does not allow for that. It’s the opposite. People are waiting longer, and deteriorating to where they either give up and pay [for therapy] out of pocket, which sets up a system for folks who have those resources to pay a private practice therapist and get better.” She said people who can’t afford private therapy and insurance premiums aren’t able to get better. “They get worse and they stay in Kaiser and they just stay sick,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923083\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"protestors reflected in a bus window\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57866_005_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser mental health care workers and supporters hold signs on the picket line outside Oakland Kaiser Medical Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What is causing the understaffing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kaiser administrators point to what they describe as a nationwide staffing shortage. “Across the country, there are not enough mental health care professionals to meet the increased demand for care,” said Kaiser’s Catsavas in an Aug. 15 statement. “This has created challenges for Kaiser Permanente and mental health care providers everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company administrators say they have worked to combat the shortage by hiring new mental health clinicians, including nearly 200 new clinicians since January 2021; improving mental health care access through virtual care; and launching a $500,000 initiative to recruit new employees.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But those on strike said the severity of the shortage is specific to Kaiser, and that burnout and poor working conditions are contributing to low retention of existing employees, and making it difficult for the company to recruit new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a shortage of clinicians. There’s only a shortage of clinicians that want to work for Kaiser,” said Marcucci-Morris. “We get into this field to help people, and it’s hard to recruit therapists when Kaiser’s reputation is known to make people wait so long for therapy sessions. It’s really, really not ethical. And I personally have a handful of colleagues and friends who are therapists with time in their schedules who I’ve tried to recruit for Kaiser. But the reputation is just so poor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s more appealing, said those striking, for qualified therapists to work for a private practice. “Workers just don’t want to work for Kaiser anymore, and that’s the real crisis we’re facing,” said Marcucci-Morris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said the rate at which mental health clinicians are leaving Kaiser nearly doubled in the past year, with 668 clinicians leaving between June 2021 and May 2022, compared to 335 clinicians the previous year. In a union survey of 200 of those departing clinicians, 85% said they were leaving because their workload was unsustainable or because they felt they did not have enough time to complete the work, and 76% said they were unable to “treat patients in line with standards of care and medical necessity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to grow the mental health workforce, there’s no doubt about that,” California state Senator Scott Wiener told KQED Forum. “It is also the case that the shortage is not as severe right now as the health plans say … health plans can take steps to expand their workforce, including paying better, providing better reimbursements to private providers, and those are investments that they should be making that they have not made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s the case that they can just throw up their hands and say, we have some challenges with the workforce, and so therefore, we’re going to make people wait three months,” he added. “We have real shortages of physical health care providers, but we don’t tolerate around physical health what we have long tolerated around mental health, which is effectively denying people access to lifesaving care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a baby in a stroller as part of a protest \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57907_044_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser mental health care workers carry signs on the picket line outside Oakland Kaiser Medical Center on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, the fifth day of an open-ended strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Has California passed any recent laws to address this shortage?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB221/\">Senate Bill 221\u003c/a>, which passed in 2021 and went into effect July 1, 2022, said that “health plans, including Kaiser, must provide timely access to mental health and addiction treatment,” Senator Wiener told Forum. “And that means a prompt first visit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law codifies existing regulations from the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance that require a health care service plan or an insurer to ensure that “for an enrollee requesting a non-urgent appointment with a non-physician mental health care provider … appointments are offered within 10 business days of the request for an appointment.” Follow-up visits have to happen within two weeks, added Wiener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 858\u003c/a>, which recently passed on the California State Assembly floor and will now move to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, would update the way health insurance companies are fined for violations, something that hasn’t been updated or even adjusted for inflation since the 1970s, said Wiener. Currently, the maximum fine possible stands at $2,500 per violation; the bill, if passed, would increase that amount to $25,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that will create a much larger incentive to actually follow the law and provide people with timely and appropriate access to health care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What exactly are the strikers asking for? What’s the current status of negotiations?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In negotiations that led up to the strike, the National Union of Healthcare Workers accepted Kaiser’s wage-increase offer. But the union held fast on its demand that nine hours per week — up from the current six hours — be allotted for administrative work. Kaiser rejected that demand, arguing it would not leave adequate time to see patients. The company’s counteroffer, of an additional 1.2 hours for that work, was flatly rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wouldn’t be striking right now if money was the primary [issue],” said Marcucci-Morris, pointing to burnout, retention issues and poor morale — as well as what the union describes as the lack of a clear plan for how the company is going to meet the requirements laid out by SB 221.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to fix the problems to buy the therapists out and pay us more,” she said. “What good is more pay when you’re drowning and can’t come up for air?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How is the strike affecting patients in need of care?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is legally obligated to continue providing care for its members during a labor strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Establishing supervised drug injection sites has been a long-standing goal for some progressive California leaders looking to address the burgeoning overdose crisis. Efforts to launch such programs have come close, but never to the finish line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the latest legislation seeking to sanction these sites heads to the governor’s desk, proponents are gearing up to make these injection sites a reality — and, they hope, a success — in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 57 would authorize these overdose prevention pilot programs in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, which would operate through Jan. 1, 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11695653/brown-rejects-supervised-injection-site-for-san-francisco\">Gov. Jerry Brown rejected similar legislation in 2018\u003c/a>, supporters are hopeful Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign this one after he said he was open to the idea during his campaign for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been engaging with the governor’s office for the past four years on this measure. We haven’t heard that he’s not going to sign it, so we’re hopeful that he’ll stick to his word from 2018,” said Jeannette Zanipatin, California state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group that works to decriminalize drugs and a co-sponsor of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Stack, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said they don’t comment on pending legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Newsom does sign it, what exactly would these sites look like? Who would be responsible for staffing them and how will they be funded? The details and logistics will be left to local officials.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Senator Scott Wiener\"]‘They are asking us to help them address the escalations and crisis of overdose deaths that we’re experiencing in California’[/pullquote]Because San Francisco has been considering this idea for almost a decade, it would likely be the first city ready to launch a program in early 2023, Zanipatin said. Supervised injection sites could cost a couple of million dollars per year to run, and cities and counties that choose to establish these programs will have to find their own source of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, New York City became the first to establish supervised injection sites in the U.S. Cities in other countries have operated such centers for years, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.vch.ca/public-health/harm-reduction/supervised-consumption-sites\">Vancouver\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/mexicali-offers-safe-spot-for-heroin-addicts\">Mexicali\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ssir.org/articles/entry/Wary_of_an_Opioid_Epidemic_Europe_Pushes_Safe_Sites_for_Drug_Use#\">Barcelona\u003c/a>. The Vancouver site is often \u003ca href=\"https://www.rti.org/impact/cost-benefit-analysis-opening-safe-consumption-site-san-francisco\">referenced as a model\u003c/a> — with about 1,700 individuals using it each month, the center is credited with \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)62353-7/fulltext\">reducing overdose deaths\u003c/a> in its neighborhood and city. Switzerland was the first country to open a supervised injection site in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of these programs, supporters say, is to provide drug users a safe, hygienic space where they can get clean needles and administer their own drugs under the supervision of trained staff. Staff members would monitor users and be ready to administer overdose reversal medications if needed, which could ultimately save lives. Medical groups in support of these programs have pointed out injection sites could also \u003ca href=\"https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2022/0500/p454.html\">help reduce the risk of Hepatitis C and HIV infections\u003c/a> associated with intravenous drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Scott Wiener, author of the bill, said the jurisdictions that would pilot the programs asked to be included in the bill. “They are asking us to help them address the escalations and crisis of overdose deaths that we’re experiencing in California,” Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, said during an Aug. 1 legislative hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in opposition to Wiener’s bill, including Republican legislators and law enforcement groups, argue these programs are a type of addiction maintenance that normalize illegal behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before setting up their overdose prevention programs, the cities and counties must provide local health and law enforcement officials the opportunity to weigh in. Once set up, these centers must make referrals to substance-use-disorder treatment programs and other social services if the user wishes to access them. The bill would also protect people from criminal charges for using the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overdose crisis has become one of the most pressing public health issues, with deaths and emergency room visits spiking in recent years, in large part due to the infiltration of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Overdose deaths from fentanyl jumped from 1,603 in 2019 to 3,946 in 2020, and then to 5,722 in 2021, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://skylab.cdph.ca.gov/ODdash/?tab=Home\">California Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/d37b51d7-b97d-4947-b813-0653e3bf0ff7?src=embed\" title=\"overdose deaths - all drugs\" width=\"550\" height=\"820\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s second swing at this policy comes as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/briefing-room/2022/03/28/president-biden-calls-for-increased-funding-to-address-addiction-and-the-overdose-epidemic/\">Biden administration is also embracing “harm reduction” strategies\u003c/a> — which focus on keeping drug users alive and safe rather than punishing them. Needle exchange programs and programs that distribute the overdose reversal drug naloxone are some examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those urging the governor to veto the bill is the Senate Republican Caucus. “Fueling the drug epidemic with drug dens and needle supplies is like pouring gasoline on a forest fire. It merely worsens the problem,” the caucus wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://cssrc.us/sites/default/files/SB%2057%20%28Wiener%29%20Senate%20Republican%20Caucus%20Veto%20Letter%20FINAL.pdf\">Aug. 1 letter to Newsom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement organizations have stated their opposition to the bill, saying it sends the wrong message to the public and fails to address addiction at its root.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and supporters of the bill say supervised injection sites will not solve the overdose crisis. Rather, the goal is to prevent deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents have also raised concerns about the bill not providing a “cognizable strategy for figuring out how to get the addict to the injection site,” John Lovell, a lobbyist with the California Narcotic Officers’ Association, said during last week’s hearing. “What injection sites do is there is a magnet effect so that people come into the area,” but that doesn’t mean they will actually go inside the facility, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Thomas, director of HIV and harm reduction policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, another co-sponsor of the bill, said she doesn’t think getting people into these centers will be a challenge. “Overwhelmingly, people would prefer to use in a clean space. No one wants to be using drugs on the sidewalk. If we give people a better option they will use it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An often-referenced \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885552/\">survey of 602 injection drug users in San Francisco\u003c/a> showed that 85% would use a supervised injection site. About 75% of them said they would use it at least three days per week.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11909484,news_11910405,news_11922249\" align=\"left\"]\u003c/span>The idea, according to supporters, is to build trust with people who come in, prompting them to spread the word and eventually link people to treatment when they are ready. These centers often look like a clinic, and people usually go through a brief interview when they first walk in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas said that while it would be ideal for such centers to be open 24/7, realistically, hours of operation would be dependent on funding. That same San Francisco study showed that 62% of the drug users surveyed preferred a supervised injection site to be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding could prove to be a challenge in the long term. In New York City, where two safe injection sites opened last fall, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/04/1103114131/supervised-injection-sites-in-nyc-have-saved-lives-but-officials-wont-provide-fu\">the city and state do not pay for them\u003c/a>. The nonprofits running the programs seek private donations, making it difficult for the centers to extend their hours or expand into other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supervised injection site in San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.rti.org/impact/cost-benefit-analysis-opening-safe-consumption-site-san-francisco\">estimated to cost about $2.6 million a year\u003c/a>, according to RTI International, a nonprofit research institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas said California community organizations that already work in the field of substance use disorders would be best-equipped to run the programs, but funding should come from public health departments because they are a public benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the cities and counties included in the bill have potential public funding streams. 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The Vancouver site is often \u003ca href=\"https://www.rti.org/impact/cost-benefit-analysis-opening-safe-consumption-site-san-francisco\">referenced as a model\u003c/a> — with about 1,700 individuals using it each month, the center is credited with \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)62353-7/fulltext\">reducing overdose deaths\u003c/a> in its neighborhood and city. Switzerland was the first country to open a supervised injection site in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of these programs, supporters say, is to provide drug users a safe, hygienic space where they can get clean needles and administer their own drugs under the supervision of trained staff. Staff members would monitor users and be ready to administer overdose reversal medications if needed, which could ultimately save lives. 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Wade curtailing abortion rights across the country weren't weighty enough, a warning came written in the opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas, a stray few lines amid the 213-page decision that could change the course of the country, and their family's life.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"James Cox, advocacy director, Oakland Black Pride\"]'This is just a start, taking away women's rights. Next it's going to be taking away LGBTQ rights, trans rights, the rights of interracial couples. Like, how far are they going to go with this?'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court ruling on same-sex marriages could be reconsidered by the court next, Justice Thomas wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was a teenager, I never thought having kids would be possible, that our relationships would ever be recognized legally,\" Collin Anthony Chen told KQED. \"So then when I finally was able to have Henry and, of course, Maple as well, the relationship, I just couldn't believe it. 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I was in awe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's anxious now, he said: \"If we're going back to the decisions that have been made by the Supreme Court, all of that is now in jeopardy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's especially worrisome, Maple Chen said, \"if we're thinking about our next kid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/HurtadoandNicole-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11918057 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/HurtadoandNicole-1-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand together with arms around each other in the middle of the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/HurtadoandNicole-1-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/HurtadoandNicole-1-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/HurtadoandNicole-1-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/HurtadoandNicole-1-1536x1099.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/HurtadoandNicole-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wives Luisa Hurtado and Nicole Brown pose for a photo at the Family Pride block party on Saturday, June 25, 2022. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their family wasn't alone in their concern. Wives Luisa Hurtado and Nicole Brown also were at the Family Pride block party. They worried how losing same-sex marriage rights would affect their co-owned business, and their hope to adopt a child from Colombia, where Hurtado hails from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to adopt and kind of have kids that are also part of my culture,\" Hurtado said. They thought there had been enough progress in both countries to make that dream a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse, Brown felt Thomas' warning spurred unanswered questions that could lead to diminished lives. \"What if we can't be gay at work? What if we need to shield ourselves, and be a fraction of who we are?\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, Lake Merritt played host to Oakland Black Pride. James Cox, advocacy director for the eponymous organization that sponsors the event, said despite the Pride weekend celebrations, the recent Supreme Court decision was top of everybody's mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just a start, taking away women’s rights. Next it’s going to be taking away LGBTQ rights, trans rights, the rights of interracial couples. Like, how far are they going to go with this?\" they asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Friday's decision, Justice Thomas cited three past rulings to revisit, centering on contraception, sodomy and same-sex marriage. 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To the contrary, the Court has linked it for decades to other settled freedoms involving bodily integrity, familial relationships, and procreation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rights, the justices wrote, \"are all part of the same constitutional fabric.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — the self-proclaimed \"Ayatollah of the Assembly,\" a political star-maker and long-respected political watcher — made a similar analysis to KQED on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're full of shit,\" said Brown in regard to the statements by conservative justices assuring people that the Dobbs decision would not affect same-sex marriage. (His opinion was phrased in what was \u003cem>perhaps\u003c/em> a more pointed fashion than that of the liberal Supreme Court justices.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether he thought Justice Thomas is alone on the court in his opinion, Brown replied, \"Not at all. 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But even in her \u003ca href=\"https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/specials/stein-toklasobit.html\">New York Times obituary\u003c/a>, which was written in 1967, she was described merely as Stein's \"longtime friend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday morning, inside the walls of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Hotel, politicians warned attendees of the Toklas Pride breakfast that conservatives threaten to take the country back to such an era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These laws that they're passing are creating absolute terror for members of our community across this country,\" said State Sen. Scott Wiener, specifically naming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose now-infamous \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089221657/dont-say-gay-florida-desantis\">Don't Say Gay\u003c/a>\" bill restricts schools from discussing everyday gay life. It's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/10/1091543359/15-states-dont-say-gay-anti-transgender-bills\">also inspired copycat bills\u003c/a> throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These laws are not just bad. We all deal with bad laws that get passed,\" Wiener told the crowd. \"These are laws that literally question whether our community has a right to exist, whether we have a right to exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is openly gay, has received multiple death threats, including a recent bomb threat that was deemed credible enough to send a bomb squad to his home. He noted that it wasn't that long ago that people with hate in their hearts would drive long distances to beat gay men in the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're used to violence, unfortunately, in this community. We also know how to fight back,\" Wiener said. \"Clarence Thomas did us a favor by saying the quiet part out loud, that Roe is just the beginning. They want to reinstate anti-sodomy laws. 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Passing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/969591569/house-to-vote-on-equality-act-heres-what-the-law-would-do\">Equality Act,\u003c/a>\" Pelosi said, referring to a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But outside the breakfast, late in the morning as the crowds for the Pride parade began to form on Market Street, Brown sounded a more clear-eyed warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We went to sleep a long time ago as Democrats. We had no vision of what tomorrow could be like. And as we achieved all the things we achieved, redefining, etcetera, we didn't understand we needed to protect them,\" he said, referring to abortion rights and rights for LGBTQ+ communities. \"The Republicans knew exactly how to ultimately get rid of them, and they did what they needed to do at every level. They started with justices of the peace and [went] all the way up to the Supreme Court. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s far as we know, the coronavirus can’t get inside the machinery of a train or bus or ferry boat and actually shut them down. But it might as well be able to. By disrupting the world of work and our travel routines, COVID-19 in all its endless variants is proving to be an affliction from which it will take public transportation years and years to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest example of the malady — you could call it “long transit COVID” — will be on display Thursday and Friday when BART will give the world a glimpse of what its bleak fiscal future holds. Some details, and related transit developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will ridership (and revenues and budgets) ever return to ‘normal’?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The BART board of directors will hear \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21199224/bart-fiscal-outlook-february-2022-presentation.pdf\">a presentation Thursday\u003c/a> showing that due in large part to the continued very slow return of ridership, the district will exhaust federal emergency funding over the next two fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, BART doesn’t see ridership numbers recovering to pre-pandemic levels for many years. Under its best-case projection, that won’t happen until 2029-30. The “base case” budget assumption — midway between the worst-case and best-case scenarios — doesn’t forecast that happening within the next decade, period, even with the addition of new service to downtown San Jose sometime around 2030. In terms of budget forecasts, BART staff says that without some major new revenue sources, the agency will begin running a deficit sometime in the first half of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Search for transit cash\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11900732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11900732 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287.jpg\" alt=\"A large white building seen from a distance with trees and people around the outside.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California state Capitol building. \u003ccite>(David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Near term, BART and other transit agencies are looking for more bailouts like the repeated cash infusions they’ve received from the federal government over the past two years. California, for instance, has a big general fund surplus, and BART and other operators hope the Newsom administration and state Legislature can be persuaded to provide additional resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the longer term, a handful of Bay Area agencies, including BART and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, have started making noise about a 2024 ballot measure that would include some form of tax to sustain regional transit long into the future. But Bay Area voters seem hostile to the idea. Recent polling shows more than \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/Metropolitan_Transportation_Commission_Listening_Session_Packet.pdf\">60% of voters think “taxes are high enough”\u003c/a> and would “vote against any tax increase.” At the same time, public transportation ranked last among 11 issues likely voters were asked about, with only 22% ranking it a “very high” priority. In fact, a former incarnation of this idea, a “mega-measure” known as \u003ca href=\"https://fasterbayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FASTER Bay Area\u003c/a>, would have raised $100 billion or more over the next couple of decades, but was scrubbed from the 2020 ballot after failing to attract widespread support.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>BART ridership is anemic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The BART passenger wears a facemask and is the only passenger visible within the train.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART passenger rides in an empty train car on April 8, 2020, in San Francisco. At the start of the pandemic, BART announced that it would slash daily service as ridership dramatically dropped due to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, overall BART ridership was down 76% from its pre-pandemic baseline. And the recent month-to-month trend is even more depressing, with January ridership down 18% from December, and December ridership down 4% from November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the initial drop was probably due to December’s continually wet weather. BART is also attributing the sharp January decline to the omicron surge. If you’re looking for a sliver of good news, BART ridership is looking like it’s bouncing back from its recent nadir.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But all transit ridership is anemic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1240px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904525 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p.jpeg\" alt=\"A largely empty wide, hilly San Francisco street with cable car tracks.\" width=\"1240\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p.jpeg 1240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p-800x517.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p-1020x660.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p-160x103.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Few pedestrians walk along Powell Street during commute hours in San Francisco on March 16, 2020, at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Companies continuing to delay a return to the office — \u003cem>really \u003c/em>returning to the office — is the long-term issue suppressing ridership and one that doesn’t seem likely to change in the foreseeable future. In the Bay Area Council’s \u003ca href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/story/1114459/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January employer survey\u003c/a>, more than two-thirds of respondents said they expected their workers will be on site three days per week or fewer “once the pandemic is behind us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/transportation/survey-fewer-days-at-the-office-more-traffic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An earlier council analysis\u003c/a> said that could mean a lasting cut of 1.1 million daily commute trips region-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Muni: ‘Expect extended waits and likely crowding’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg\" alt=\"People wear masks as they wait in a bus shelter as a red and gray bus pulls up.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wear masks as they wait in a shelter for a San Francisco MUNI bus on April 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s busiest transit system began experiencing staff shortages early in the omicron surge, and the problem has intensified in the last couple of weeks amid Lunar New Year celebrations. In its daily rider alerts, the agency has recently named as many as 30 lines (of 50 or so that are currently running) that would experience “extended waits and likely crowding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staffing shortages are due to “regular old sick calls,” according to agency spokesperson Erica Kato, who said the agency is attempting to fill schedule gaps by offering overtime to operators. And just how many sick calls is Muni getting, and how many bus and train runs are being missed? On Monday of last week, it reported 355 sick calls, with 268 “open” runs — scheduled runs for which no operator was available. Last Tuesday it was 259 sick calls and 220 open runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new and improved CEQA exemption for transportation projects\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904532 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2.jpeg\" alt=\"A large underground transit construction site\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction on the BART Silicon Valley Berryessa extension. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Transmetrics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 922\u003c/a> is a follow-up to his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 288\u003c/a>, legislation that succeeded in speeding up transit and bike projects by making most of them exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SB 288, the exemption ends next Jan. 1; the new bill would make the exemption permanent and expand its scope to new pedestrian projects — think programs like “slow streets” in San Francisco and Oakland, bus-only freeway lanes (under discussion, but still far from reality, on the Bay Bridge) and new carpool lanes on city streets. The bill would also extend the exemption to projects in non-urbanized areas and require a new equity analysis for exempted transit projects slated for areas with a high potential for community displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Caltrain ‘governance’ struggle drags on\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11254007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11254007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\" alt=\"The side of a Caltrain train as it enters a station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain cars at San Jose’s Diridon Station, Dec. 28, 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The saga continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ad hoc committee of the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, aka the Caltrain board, is working with a March 3 deadline to produce an agreement that will resolve outstanding governance issues. One sticking point: San Mateo County’s recent announcement that it will require a $15.2 million payment as part of settling the governance dispute. That sum, along with $19.6 million from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, would finally settle a debt incurred by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties when San Mateo fronted the cash for buying Caltrain’s right-of-way from Southern Pacific more than three decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another sticking point: how a more independent Caltrain will share staff with SamTrans, which has managed the railroad since its long-ago acquisition. Meantime, Caltrain’s ridership in December was down 82% from pre-pandemic levels, and the agency is looking for $410 million to finish its electrification project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In court next week\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Amalgamated Transit Union and the Biden administration’s Department of Transportation face off in a Sacramento courtroom next Thursday (Feb. 17) over the DOT’s plan, announced abruptly in late October, to block release of emergency operating funds to BART, AC Transit and other agencies because of an ongoing dispute over a 2013 California law that limits pension benefits for newly hired union workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller granted a preliminary injunction to the state in late December that cleared the way for release of emergency funds. At stake now is whether the DOT may block future funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In fact, a former incarnation of this idea, a “mega-measure” known as \u003ca href=\"https://fasterbayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FASTER Bay Area\u003c/a>, would have raised $100 billion or more over the next couple of decades, but was scrubbed from the 2020 ballot after failing to attract widespread support.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>BART ridership is anemic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The BART passenger wears a facemask and is the only passenger visible within the train.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART passenger rides in an empty train car on April 8, 2020, in San Francisco. 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In its daily rider alerts, the agency has recently named as many as 30 lines (of 50 or so that are currently running) that would experience “extended waits and likely crowding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staffing shortages are due to “regular old sick calls,” according to agency spokesperson Erica Kato, who said the agency is attempting to fill schedule gaps by offering overtime to operators. And just how many sick calls is Muni getting, and how many bus and train runs are being missed? On Monday of last week, it reported 355 sick calls, with 268 “open” runs — scheduled runs for which no operator was available. 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Scott Wiener’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 922\u003c/a> is a follow-up to his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 288\u003c/a>, legislation that succeeded in speeding up transit and bike projects by making most of them exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SB 288, the exemption ends next Jan. 1; the new bill would make the exemption permanent and expand its scope to new pedestrian projects — think programs like “slow streets” in San Francisco and Oakland, bus-only freeway lanes (under discussion, but still far from reality, on the Bay Bridge) and new carpool lanes on city streets. 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One sticking point: San Mateo County’s recent announcement that it will require a $15.2 million payment as part of settling the governance dispute. That sum, along with $19.6 million from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, would finally settle a debt incurred by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties when San Mateo fronted the cash for buying Caltrain’s right-of-way from Southern Pacific more than three decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another sticking point: how a more independent Caltrain will share staff with SamTrans, which has managed the railroad since its long-ago acquisition. 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