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"content": "\u003cp>Growing up in Oakland, Jeffrey Cheung felt like he lived in two different worlds: in one, he was gay, and in the other, he was a skateboarder. It was clear to him that the two didn’t mix. Nobody else knew he was gay, but when he went to the skatepark, other skaters threw around the word ‘gay’ as an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would get called like ‘faggot’ a lot, or like ‘that’s so gay’ and like ‘you’re gay’,” Cheung tells me. “It’s very homophobic. And not very welcoming. And I remember feeling very ashamed about myself and sexuality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Cheung was 18, he decided to stop skating. It was just too hard to live in both worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11653059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-240x239.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-375x374.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-520x518.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity founder Jeffrey Cheung is also an artist. He paints skateboard decks with inclusive images of genders and sexualities. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Ramirez grew up in Southern California, but he also lived in those two worlds. In high school he \u003ci>wanted\u003c/i> to try skateboarding, but says he was “too afraid to experience what would happen” if anyone found out he was gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez remembers the day he met Cheung at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finding out that he was gay and skateboarded, my mind was blown!” Ramirez laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez and Cheung started dating. They moved to Oakland, where they skated, played music and made ‘zines. At the end of 2016, their worlds were rocked: first by the presidential election. And then they lost a friend in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. As their queer and artist communities grieved, they felt pushed to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung pulled out a sharpie and made a flyer for a queer skateboarding meetup at a parking lot. It was low-tech and low-expectations, just bring your board and show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11653056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png 586w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-160x164.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-240x246.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-375x384.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-520x532.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for one of Unity’s queer skate days. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The first one was just amazing, so many people came,” Cheung recalls. “And it was just a space where everyone could just feel welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went so well, they decided to do them monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year later, this monthly meetup has a name: Unity Skateboards. Ramirez and Cheung continue to organize queer skate days in the Bay Area and up to 60 people show up each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11653042 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg 599w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-160x146.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-240x218.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-375x341.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity’s queer skate days draw up to 60 people each month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cheung stresses how unique the Unity atmosphere is compared to other places he has skated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it’s just like ridiculous how positive and supporting it is. I’ve never been in a place where everyone is just so happy and just supportive. People are like bringing food, like ‘here’s water’, and…it’s unbelievable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a casual meetup in a parking lot is now a community of people — skaters and non-skaters, queer and straight — who all want to shred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BWqPkXYDwUp/?taken-by=unityskateboarding\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, they actually have a place to come together indoors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With money earned from their full-time jobs, Jeffrey and Gabriel are renting the top floor of a bookstore downtown Oakland. Jeffrey says it’s important to have a permanent safe space for their community. The walls of the wooden loft are covered with skateboards and artwork. There’s a printing press in one corner, a couch in the other. It reminds me of a clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People crowd into Unity Skateboards’ new loft space for the opening party. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tiny shop is packed for the opening party. Louise Alban has been skating with Unity for almost two years, and she says it has helped her learn to love all of her identities: “I’m a skateboarder and I’m a queer, and then I’m also female and… I can do all of those things and there’s other people like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alban started skating when she was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom like hated it,” she says. “She thought girls shouldn’t be skating and I was like that young defiant little kid, and I was like ‘I’m going to skate anyway.’ So I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Alban started skating she was 11. Her mom didn’t think that girls should skate. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alban found out about Unity Skateboards on Instagram. She sent Cheung a video of herself skating. He mailed her back a skateboard, an invitation to come skate with them. Louise moved from her home in Yucaipa a few months later to attend her first queer skate day, and she’s been in Oakland ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unity’s founder, Jeffrey Cheung, says now, he has the most queer friends he’s ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says that if there was something like this when he was younger, it would have changed his life entirely. He wouldn’t have felt so alone and ashamed of being gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with Unity Skateboards, Cheung says he hopes he’s making it a little easier for the next generation of young people to find acceptance — at school, at home, and at the skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>On March 4, 2017 Jeffrey Cheung and Unity Press will be hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/riso-printing-unity-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zine making workshop\u003c/a> at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finding out that he was gay and skateboarded, my mind was blown!” Ramirez laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez and Cheung started dating. They moved to Oakland, where they skated, played music and made ‘zines. At the end of 2016, their worlds were rocked: first by the presidential election. And then they lost a friend in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. As their queer and artist communities grieved, they felt pushed to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung pulled out a sharpie and made a flyer for a queer skateboarding meetup at a parking lot. It was low-tech and low-expectations, just bring your board and show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11653056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png 586w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-160x164.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-240x246.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-375x384.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-520x532.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for one of Unity’s queer skate days. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The first one was just amazing, so many people came,” Cheung recalls. “And it was just a space where everyone could just feel welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went so well, they decided to do them monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year later, this monthly meetup has a name: Unity Skateboards. Ramirez and Cheung continue to organize queer skate days in the Bay Area and up to 60 people show up each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11653042 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg 599w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-160x146.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-240x218.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-375x341.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity’s queer skate days draw up to 60 people each month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cheung stresses how unique the Unity atmosphere is compared to other places he has skated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it’s just like ridiculous how positive and supporting it is. I’ve never been in a place where everyone is just so happy and just supportive. People are like bringing food, like ‘here’s water’, and…it’s unbelievable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a casual meetup in a parking lot is now a community of people — skaters and non-skaters, queer and straight — who all want to shred.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>And now, they actually have a place to come together indoors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With money earned from their full-time jobs, Jeffrey and Gabriel are renting the top floor of a bookstore downtown Oakland. Jeffrey says it’s important to have a permanent safe space for their community. The walls of the wooden loft are covered with skateboards and artwork. There’s a printing press in one corner, a couch in the other. It reminds me of a clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People crowd into Unity Skateboards’ new loft space for the opening party. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tiny shop is packed for the opening party. Louise Alban has been skating with Unity for almost two years, and she says it has helped her learn to love all of her identities: “I’m a skateboarder and I’m a queer, and then I’m also female and… I can do all of those things and there’s other people like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alban started skating when she was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom like hated it,” she says. “She thought girls shouldn’t be skating and I was like that young defiant little kid, and I was like ‘I’m going to skate anyway.’ So I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Alban started skating she was 11. Her mom didn’t think that girls should skate. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alban found out about Unity Skateboards on Instagram. She sent Cheung a video of herself skating. He mailed her back a skateboard, an invitation to come skate with them. Louise moved from her home in Yucaipa a few months later to attend her first queer skate day, and she’s been in Oakland ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unity’s founder, Jeffrey Cheung, says now, he has the most queer friends he’s ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says that if there was something like this when he was younger, it would have changed his life entirely. He wouldn’t have felt so alone and ashamed of being gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with Unity Skateboards, Cheung says he hopes he’s making it a little easier for the next generation of young people to find acceptance — at school, at home, and at the skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>On March 4, 2017 Jeffrey Cheung and Unity Press will be hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/riso-printing-unity-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zine making workshop\u003c/a> at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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She noted, among other things, that the president's policy was announced with little apparent deliberation, \"disfavors a class of historically persecuted and politically powerless individuals\" and contradicts the conclusions of military leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also wrote \"the reasons given for [the directives] do not appear to be supported by any facts\" — for instance, there is \"practically no explanation at all\" about how trans service members would harm \"unit cohesion,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo released by the president also prohibits the military from spending any resources on surgeries related to a service member's gender transition. Covering transition-related health needs was one of the policy changes the Pentagon announced in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kollar-Kotelly said she could not issue a preliminary injunction on that element of the memo, because none of the plaintiffs in this case had proven that they would personally be harmed by that clause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Human Rights Campaign called the injunction \"an important step in the ongoing efforts to protect transgender service members.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This case is not the only challenge to Trump's trans service member ban. The ACLU has a separate challenge pending in Maryland, on behalf of several named active service members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As all of these cases move forward, we will continue to work to ensure that transgender service members are treated with the equal treatment they deserve,\"ACLU senior staff attorney Joshua Block said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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She noted, among other things, that the president's policy was announced with little apparent deliberation, \"disfavors a class of historically persecuted and politically powerless individuals\" and contradicts the conclusions of military leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also wrote \"the reasons given for [the directives] do not appear to be supported by any facts\" — for instance, there is \"practically no explanation at all\" about how trans service members would harm \"unit cohesion,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo released by the president also prohibits the military from spending any resources on surgeries related to a service member's gender transition. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>For our series \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/start-the-conversation/\">Start the Conversation\u003c/a>, we’ve been bringing people together who sit on different sides of a political or cultural divide, to talk about the issues that are important to them.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>They’re civil dialogues, not debates -- and we hope they’re a way to try to bridge some of the divisions between us in this politically charged time.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of us are taught never to talk politics at the dinner table. Especially if your guests fall on different sides of the political spectrum. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.makeamericadinneragain.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Make America Dinner Again\u003c/a> breaks this rule, in a big way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justine Lee co-founded Make America Dinner Again one day after the presidential election. She says she wanted to put her energy into something productive to heal what she saw as a huge national divide. Dinner felt right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think of food and a warm meal as sort of a nice conduit to conversation and understanding,\" Lee explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonight’s dinner is being held at a loft in downtown San Francisco. All the guests have applied online to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a young Bolivian woman who works at Facebook; a bar owner who describes himself as the trifecta: boy scout, frat boy, and Marine; a UC Berkeley graduate student whose family voted for President Trump; a conservative lawyer; and a transgender adoptee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve never met each other, until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/09/2017-09-22a-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26537_MADA_08-qut-800x534.jpg\" Title=\"Bridging the Political Divide, One Dinner at a Time\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After small talk over a meal of gourmet salads and pizzas, the guests are ushered to a big round table by the facilitators, Sahana Kumar and Hailey Stewart. Stewart lays down some ground rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Try not to make judgement statements,” she emphasizes. “Don’t say ‘you’re bad,' ‘you’re wrong,' ‘you’re crazy.' Try to put this into ‘I’ statements, so ‘this made me feel...’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first exercise, Stewart pairs the guests up and asks them to find one thing they have in common. After a few minutes of talking, Walt Shjeflo and Min Matson discover that they’re both from the Dakotas (Min grew up in South Dakota, and Walt is from North Dakota).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11618130 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walt Shjeflo (L) and Min Matson interview one another. \u003ccite>(Maykel Loomans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than that, these men are very different. Min is transgender, liberal, and was adopted from Korea as a child. A few years ago he adopted a son of his own, Aidan. Min's arms are decorated with colorful tattoos, and he wears a purple checkered shirt (his favorite color). Walt is a white conservative who voted for Trump. He’s a father of four and works as a lawyer in San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the pairs are given a new set of instructions. They must ask each other two questions: What has shaped your identity? And what has shaken it in the last year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walt starts by telling Min he has been upset by how hostile the Bay Area felt to conservatives after the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9xvlortiw9KCq0JhZ5TrC0vUahWg7EMS\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very disappointing to me to hear the things that were said to me in particular and to my friends,” he says. “Meanest things I can possibly imagine. And it really pissed me off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it’s Walt’s turn to interview Min. Min tells him that as a transgender person of color, he sees a lot of divisive racism and transpeople targeted in the media. And he adds that, because of how the media portrays immigrants, his Latino son’s identity “is under attack, and he doesn’t even know it yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, there’s a connection. Walt asks Min if he would identify himself first and foremost as transgender. Without hesitation, Min responds, “I would say I’m a father first,” which seems to catch Walt by surprise. Walt chuckles and nods his head. “I say 'way to go,' because that’s how I identify too,” he tells Min.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems like Walt and Min could have talked about fatherhood all night. But Stewart, the facilitator, interrupts the group to take them one step further, into something she calls radical empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11618131 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-1180x1768.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-960x1439.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-375x562.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-520x779.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facilitator Hailey Stewart explains the radical empathy exercise. \u003ccite>(Maykel Loomans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they regroup, each person will share their partner’s story, but in the first person. The idea is, if you can listen and then share out someone else’s story as your own, you can internalize it and create deeper empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walt volunteers to go first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am Min Matson,” he begins. “I was adopted in Seoul, South Korea. I grew up a young woman and am transgender. Transgender seem to be targets and since I am transgender I think that is a difficult thing to do. I am proudest of being a father and a son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group claps when Walt finishes. Then it’s Min’s turn to tell Walt’s story in the first person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618116\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Min Matson shares Walt Shjeflo's story in the first person. \u003ccite>(Maykel Loomans )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m Walt Shjeflo. Many of my family members are small business owners and a lot of them work in agriculture,” Min says. “People talk about the South as being really racist. I really think that the Bay Area is very racist. You know, there's a lot of things that feel like they were done and now they're back again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group goes around the table, each sharing their partner’s story in the first person. It’s powerful to hear. After the dinner, I pull Walt and Min aside to ask them what they learned about themselves, and their partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Min tells me, “I think that Walt and I would be two of the least likely people to connect. I very much appreciate him. I think he is a very, very good-hearted person who has felt hurt and has felt left out in some spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Walt the same question. “Min and I definitely disagree politically on issues,” he says. “But the thing I like about him is he's facing life's challenges in a positive way. He's trying to make things better for himself and his family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pauses, then adds, “He told me tonight the two most significant things in his life were the first time he heard his adopted parents call him son, and he heard his little boy call him father.” His voice cracks ever so slightly when he says the word \"son.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a few hours, a white, conservative Trump voter and a transgender, Korean adoptee broke bread and shared their stories -- and they came away with something that seems to be lacking these days: respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eight dinner guests pose for a group photo after several hours of eating, talking, and sharing. \u003ccite>(Maykel Loomans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the guests here tonight raised some questions. Once we find out what we have in common, what would it take to do the difficult work of hashing out our differences? How do you scale this kind of experiment beyond just eight people in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Make America Dinner Again organizers have created an \u003ca href=\"http://www.makeamericadinneragain.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online toolkit\u003c/a> to help people host their own dinners. Their hope is that people continue to meet, eat, and that the radical empathy keeps growing.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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After a few minutes of talking, Walt Shjeflo and Min Matson discover that they’re both from the Dakotas (Min grew up in South Dakota, and Walt is from North Dakota).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11618130 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26530_MADA_12-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walt Shjeflo (L) and Min Matson interview one another. \u003ccite>(Maykel Loomans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than that, these men are very different. Min is transgender, liberal, and was adopted from Korea as a child. A few years ago he adopted a son of his own, Aidan. Min's arms are decorated with colorful tattoos, and he wears a purple checkered shirt (his favorite color). Walt is a white conservative who voted for Trump. He’s a father of four and works as a lawyer in San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the pairs are given a new set of instructions. They must ask each other two questions: What has shaped your identity? And what has shaken it in the last year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walt starts by telling Min he has been upset by how hostile the Bay Area felt to conservatives after the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very disappointing to me to hear the things that were said to me in particular and to my friends,” he says. “Meanest things I can possibly imagine. And it really pissed me off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it’s Walt’s turn to interview Min. Min tells him that as a transgender person of color, he sees a lot of divisive racism and transpeople targeted in the media. And he adds that, because of how the media portrays immigrants, his Latino son’s identity “is under attack, and he doesn’t even know it yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, there’s a connection. Walt asks Min if he would identify himself first and foremost as transgender. Without hesitation, Min responds, “I would say I’m a father first,” which seems to catch Walt by surprise. Walt chuckles and nods his head. “I say 'way to go,' because that’s how I identify too,” he tells Min.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems like Walt and Min could have talked about fatherhood all night. But Stewart, the facilitator, interrupts the group to take them one step further, into something she calls radical empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11618131 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-1180x1768.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-960x1439.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-375x562.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26534_MADA_20-qut-520x779.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facilitator Hailey Stewart explains the radical empathy exercise. \u003ccite>(Maykel Loomans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they regroup, each person will share their partner’s story, but in the first person. The idea is, if you can listen and then share out someone else’s story as your own, you can internalize it and create deeper empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walt volunteers to go first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am Min Matson,” he begins. “I was adopted in Seoul, South Korea. I grew up a young woman and am transgender. Transgender seem to be targets and since I am transgender I think that is a difficult thing to do. I am proudest of being a father and a son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group claps when Walt finishes. Then it’s Min’s turn to tell Walt’s story in the first person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618116\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26640_L1090438-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Min Matson shares Walt Shjeflo's story in the first person. \u003ccite>(Maykel Loomans )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m Walt Shjeflo. Many of my family members are small business owners and a lot of them work in agriculture,” Min says. “People talk about the South as being really racist. I really think that the Bay Area is very racist. You know, there's a lot of things that feel like they were done and now they're back again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group goes around the table, each sharing their partner’s story in the first person. It’s powerful to hear. After the dinner, I pull Walt and Min aside to ask them what they learned about themselves, and their partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Min tells me, “I think that Walt and I would be two of the least likely people to connect. I very much appreciate him. I think he is a very, very good-hearted person who has felt hurt and has felt left out in some spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Walt the same question. “Min and I definitely disagree politically on issues,” he says. “But the thing I like about him is he's facing life's challenges in a positive way. He's trying to make things better for himself and his family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pauses, then adds, “He told me tonight the two most significant things in his life were the first time he heard his adopted parents call him son, and he heard his little boy call him father.” His voice cracks ever so slightly when he says the word \"son.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a few hours, a white, conservative Trump voter and a transgender, Korean adoptee broke bread and shared their stories -- and they came away with something that seems to be lacking these days: respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26648_MADA_21-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eight dinner guests pose for a group photo after several hours of eating, talking, and sharing. \u003ccite>(Maykel Loomans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the guests here tonight raised some questions. Once we find out what we have in common, what would it take to do the difficult work of hashing out our differences? How do you scale this kind of experiment beyond just eight people in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Meghan Frederick says that after she began a process of gender reassignment five years ago, colleagues at the state prison where she works called her “freak” and “tranny” and locked her in a stairwell. The correctional officer \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article168993672.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is suing\u003c/a> the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for creating a hostile work environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am isolated by my peers and that is quite scary,” Frederick said. “Within a maximum-security prison we need and depend upon each other, my fellow officers, for support and camaraderie. And I seem to have lost that because of the transphobic environment that’s endemic within this institution and in this department overall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frederick, 53, started working in the California State Prison, Sacramento in 2002. Then in 2012, when she began transitioning from male to female, she says the intimidation and abuse started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each day going to work for Plaintiff became torture,” says Frederick’s complaint, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court on May 30. It charges harassment and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials denied all of Frederick’s allegations in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3983246-Answer-Frederick-v-CDCR.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">response\u003c/a> filed on Friday. The department is asking the court to dismiss Frederick’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with verbal abuse, Frederick says both officers and supervisors fail to address her by the correct gender pronoun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am constantly mis-gendered by individuals that have known me for quite some time or whom I’ve corrected on a number of occasions,” she said. “They delegitimatize my female gender. They don’t recognize it. They don’t respect it and I’m not treated like the other female officers. I’m constantly called sir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613794\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 514px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11613794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0923-2.jpg\" alt=\"Correctional Officer Meghan Frederick in her uniform.\" width=\"514\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0923-2.jpg 514w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0923-2-160x218.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0923-2-240x327.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0923-2-375x511.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Correctional Officer Meghan Frederick in her uniform. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meghan Frederick)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Frederick’s complaint says officers locked her in a sally port and stairwells on several occasions. She says she tried to get higher-ups at the prison to address the hostile work environment many times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a direct supervisor that told me that I was being overly sensitive,” she said. “And I find that very difficult to take because here’s my direct supervisor who’s charged with making sure the other officers adhere to our zero-tolerance policy stating that Officer Frederick is overly sensitive. It sort of gives a green light to the other officers to continue with their hateful discriminatory behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frederick’s lawyer, Robert Boucher, said issues like this point to a failure of culture within the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is also facing a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/17/prison-psychologist-sues-state-for-retaliation-after-reporting-mistreatment-of-lgbtq-prisoners/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> from a prison psychologist who said she faced retaliation after reporting mistreatment of gay and transgender inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Callison, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections, wrote in an email that he cannot comment on pending litigation. But he pointed out the code of conduct for staff and inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>3005. Conduct. (a) Inmates and parolees shall obey all laws, regulations, and local procedures, and refrain from behavior which might lead to violence or disorder, or otherwise endangers facility, outside community or another person. (b) Obeying Orders. Inmates and parolees must promptly and courteously obey written and verbal orders and instructions from department staff, and from employees of other agencies with authorized responsibility for the custody and supervision of inmates and parolees.\u003cbr>\n3391. Employee Conduct. (a) Employees shall be alert, courteous, and professional in their dealings with inmates, parolees, fellow employees, visitors and members of the public. Inmates and parolees shall be addressed by their proper names, and never by derogatory or slang reference.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While the California Department of Corrections has a workplace conduct policy that should have protected Frederick from harassment, Boucher said, some inmates and staff simply disregard it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11613813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"Correctional Officer Meghan Frederick in hiking gear.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-1020x1361.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-960x1281.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-240x320.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-375x500.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-520x694.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1.jpeg 1084w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Correctional Officer Meghan Frederick in hiking gear. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meghan Frederick)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In her [Frederick’s] case, all CDCR’s management, all the way up to the warden of that prison, their response to why didn’t you do anything to help my client was, ‘It’s not my job,’ ” Boucher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Management failed to discipline officers who mocked Frederick, according to the complaint, and in 2014 prison management failed to inform Frederick about threats to her life from inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the complaint:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The kite [note] expressly named Plaintiff and stated that Plaintiff was to be killed on the yard. Defendant’s protocol was to immediately notify the subject of such a threat in order that they could protect themselves, then to conduct an immediate investigation to ensure that the threat was not carried out. Such threats are supposed to be taken seriously because they often occur quickly, leaving little or no time for defense. However, Plaintiff did not learn about the threat for many weeks after it was made.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Her safety is in jeopardy,” Boucher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frederick said she is good at her job running a maximum-security housing unit and that she enjoys doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not one to back down or run away because individuals want to bully me,” she said. “I do a great job. I do it professionally. This is what I enjoy doing. And for the time being this is what I’m going to continue to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Frederick said the bullying has taken both a psychological and financial toll. She is seeking damages for lost wages and emotional distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Frederick’s complaint below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3983208-Meghan-Frederick-v-California-Department-of\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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