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They had received that kind of care for the past six years. The 16-year-old patient called their dad, and he confirmed it. “I started crying,” said Pitchenik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHLA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.chla.org/adolescent-and-young-adult-medicine/center-transyouth-health-and-development\">Center for Transyouth Health and Development\u003c/a> has provided essential treatments to thousands of trans children and young adults for over 30 years, making it one of the oldest and largest programs in the country. Now, nearly 3,000 patients there will need to find new medical providers. CHLA’s decision follows an executive order signed by President Trump in January that \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/\">threatened to cut funding for hospitals\u003c/a> that help patients under age 19 medically transition. CHLA receives two-thirds of its funding from federal sources, and said in a statement that federal agencies have already terminated some of its grants. “Despite [a] deeply held commitment to supporting LA’s gender-diverse community, the hospital has been left with no viable path forward,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, local organizations, including the Los Angeles LGBT Center and Gender Justice LA, scheduled a series of protests over the closure. 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A loss in this funding would greatly impact the level of care that Maitri is able to provide to its clients, which is why the center continues to push for sustainable, grassroots funding, including donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s even expanded its services to include pre- and post-op care for gender-affirmation surgery on a free or sliding scale for people from all across the country and Canada. 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The center provides residential hospice, respite, and medical care. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cost of living in San Francisco is extraordinarily high, and it is home to some of the nation’s highest rates of income inequality. Providing a place to stay, in this case, is a form of health care — and what Maitri provides goes beyond a place to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really do become family here,” Moreno said. “You see Maitri neighbors really pushing each other to quit smoking, to eat less dessert, to have more salad. To just be better together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda O’Connor is one of those people. She came to Maitri through a referral after a spinal injury, and has been in the center recovering for nearly a year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the time she’s been here, she’s quit smoking cigarettes, undergone top surgery and has plans for bottom surgery, and made amazing friends. 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The center provides residential hospice, respite, and medical care. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For her, the attention, care and understanding that Maitri’s staff have given her is beyond what she ever received in the hospital. And it all seems to be effortless. “This place is like a well-lubricated machine,” O’Connor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center works hard to keep its clients engaged and feeling a part of a community. There are daily meals, weekly bingo games and art groups, a piano that’s available for playing, and annual holiday parties. Plus, there’s access to ongoing resources, such as on-site therapy and classes or workshops from outside partners or programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a giant ecosystem that Moreno said has continued to grow, so much so that they now have the Branch aftercare center, which enables former clients to stay connected with the people and offerings at Maitri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047820\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer Mark Silva (left) speaks with resident Wanda O’Connor (center) and David Nevarez during dinner at Maitri Compassionate Care in San Francisco on July 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Branch doesn’t actually stand for anything,” he said, admitting that it’s a play on the center’s name, “Maitree,” which is a Sanskrit word meaning unconditional acceptance and loving friendship. “My tree, my branch,” he said jokingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it really is a branch, connecting many people who have passed through the center. For O’Connor, her branch takes the form of supporting people who are just arriving at Maitri, and helping to assure them it’s likely a very different experience than where they just were. “I’ll sit down and talk with them about my experience” she said, but “then they find it for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Connor is such a strong advocate for the center, she said that if she were to choose a place to die, she would choose Maitri. “I’m not gonna die anytime soon,” she said, “but if I had to, this would be the place I want to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047817\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-08-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-08-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-08-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-08-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda O’Connor (right) eats dinner with David Nevarez at Maitri Compassionate Care in San Francisco on July 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Geary Holst, a former client at Maitri and a member of the Branch program, thought he would be spending his last days living in the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holst came to the center after having a heart attack. He was living with HIV, recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and was fairly confident that when his doctors sent him to Maitri, it was for hospice care. But he bounced back. “It just showed me how to live again,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Holst lives two blocks down the street from the center, stopping by multiple times a week to see people, sit down for a meal or attend an event. He spends the holidays here, decorating the tree at Christmas, sharing a big Thanksgiving meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geary Holst, 80, watches TV in the living room at Maitri Compassionate Care. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holst is served dinner (left) and eats with David Nevarez (right) at Maitri Compassionate Care. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Halloween is a hoot,” he said, adding that people get dressed up and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag queen activists and performers, show up and help with the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holst compares his relationship to Maitri as one would to their “grandma’s house,” because it’s a place people can feel comfortable and accepted — with different personalities all mixing together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, it’s a place not just for receiving care, but for getting a second chance at life, for thriving. And that’s not just for Maitri clients, but staff as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monique Dupree, Maitri’s head of nursing, and Molly Herzog, the director of client services, joined the Maitri team after careers in nursing and social work, respectively. They’ve both fallen in love with the work they do at Maitri, and in particular, the people they work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty room at Maitri Compassionate Care in San Francisco on July 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re amazing,” Herzog said. She wears a shamrock necklace that a former client made for her, citing it as one of the kinds of tokens the staff receive for the care they give.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She calls it a “community of love,” saying that the staff and the clients care for each other. One such client, she said, would always be sitting in the living room when she came in for work, and every morning he greeted her with “Here comes Molly. She brings sunshine out every morning!” It was a beautiful and special way to start every day, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Dupree, her gratitude for finding a place at Maitri is reinforced every time she thinks about what the center provides. Like the name Maitri suggests, acceptance, friendship and compassion are at the heart of everything they do for clients. “It’s all about being there in people’s most vulnerable moments,” she said, “even if there isn’t anything to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People are being singled out,” Moreno said. “Children are being singled out for being trans on the nightly news, and it’s really, really scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With funding through Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS and the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, as well as the help of private donations and support from the public health department and the city of San Francisco, Maitri has kept its doors open, providing care for lower-income and housing-insecure clients living with HIV or AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of whom are elderly, as the epidemic is disproportionately affecting older people. A loss in this funding would greatly impact the level of care that Maitri is able to provide to its clients, which is why the center continues to push for sustainable, grassroots funding, including donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s even expanded its services to include pre- and post-op care for gender-affirmation surgery on a free or sliding scale for people from all across the country and Canada. All of this feels especially important at this moment, and in this particular place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNA Suki Su picks up a plate of food for a resident at Maitri Compassionate Care in San Francisco on July 9, 2025. The center provides residential hospice, respite, and medical care. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cost of living in San Francisco is extraordinarily high, and it is home to some of the nation’s highest rates of income inequality. Providing a place to stay, in this case, is a form of health care — and what Maitri provides goes beyond a place to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really do become family here,” Moreno said. “You see Maitri neighbors really pushing each other to quit smoking, to eat less dessert, to have more salad. To just be better together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda O’Connor is one of those people. She came to Maitri through a referral after a spinal injury, and has been in the center recovering for nearly a year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the time she’s been here, she’s quit smoking cigarettes, undergone top surgery and has plans for bottom surgery, and made amazing friends. She said Maitri has been a blessing, calling it “the best kept secret ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047823\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and former residents play a game of bingo at Maitri Compassionate Care in San Francisco on July 9, 2025. The center provides residential hospice, respite, and medical care. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For her, the attention, care and understanding that Maitri’s staff have given her is beyond what she ever received in the hospital. And it all seems to be effortless. “This place is like a well-lubricated machine,” O’Connor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center works hard to keep its clients engaged and feeling a part of a community. There are daily meals, weekly bingo games and art groups, a piano that’s available for playing, and annual holiday parties. Plus, there’s access to ongoing resources, such as on-site therapy and classes or workshops from outside partners or programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a giant ecosystem that Moreno said has continued to grow, so much so that they now have the Branch aftercare center, which enables former clients to stay connected with the people and offerings at Maitri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047820\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer Mark Silva (left) speaks with resident Wanda O’Connor (center) and David Nevarez during dinner at Maitri Compassionate Care in San Francisco on July 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Branch doesn’t actually stand for anything,” he said, admitting that it’s a play on the center’s name, “Maitree,” which is a Sanskrit word meaning unconditional acceptance and loving friendship. “My tree, my branch,” he said jokingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it really is a branch, connecting many people who have passed through the center. For O’Connor, her branch takes the form of supporting people who are just arriving at Maitri, and helping to assure them it’s likely a very different experience than where they just were. “I’ll sit down and talk with them about my experience” she said, but “then they find it for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Connor is such a strong advocate for the center, she said that if she were to choose a place to die, she would choose Maitri. “I’m not gonna die anytime soon,” she said, “but if I had to, this would be the place I want to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047817\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-08-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-08-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-08-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-08-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda O’Connor (right) eats dinner with David Nevarez at Maitri Compassionate Care in San Francisco on July 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Geary Holst, a former client at Maitri and a member of the Branch program, thought he would be spending his last days living in the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holst came to the center after having a heart attack. He was living with HIV, recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and was fairly confident that when his doctors sent him to Maitri, it was for hospice care. But he bounced back. “It just showed me how to live again,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Holst lives two blocks down the street from the center, stopping by multiple times a week to see people, sit down for a meal or attend an event. He spends the holidays here, decorating the tree at Christmas, sharing a big Thanksgiving meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geary Holst, 80, watches TV in the living room at Maitri Compassionate Care. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Side-by-side-Downpage-3-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holst is served dinner (left) and eats with David Nevarez (right) at Maitri Compassionate Care. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Halloween is a hoot,” he said, adding that people get dressed up and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag queen activists and performers, show up and help with the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holst compares his relationship to Maitri as one would to their “grandma’s house,” because it’s a place people can feel comfortable and accepted — with different personalities all mixing together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, it’s a place not just for receiving care, but for getting a second chance at life, for thriving. And that’s not just for Maitri clients, but staff as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monique Dupree, Maitri’s head of nursing, and Molly Herzog, the director of client services, joined the Maitri team after careers in nursing and social work, respectively. They’ve both fallen in love with the work they do at Maitri, and in particular, the people they work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250709-MaitriCompassionateCare-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty room at Maitri Compassionate Care in San Francisco on July 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re amazing,” Herzog said. 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Gavin Newsom’s office said the CIF and the state Education Department are following existing state law, which he said is in line with 21 other states’ laws and doesn’t violate Title IX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No court has adopted the interpretation of Title IX advanced by the federal government and neither the governor, nor they, get to wave a magic wand and override it,” Newsom’s office said via email. “Unlike Donald Trump, California follows the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty-1536x1145.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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Pushback against it, as well as similar legislation in other states, intensified during the 2024 presidential campaign, when opposition to transgender athletes’ participation in sports became a linchpin of Trump’s platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender youth are at the center of this administration’s cruel and discriminatory policies,” said Heron Greenesmith, deputy director of policy at the Transgender Law Center. “Their attempts at wielding Title IX against the very students it is supposed to protect is characteristic of a government that has no issues with continuing to attack an already marginalized group, push a harmful and misinformed narrative about transgender youth, and create confusing and hostile conditions for students and school[s].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Trump took office, he signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a> that sought to ban trans women from competing in women’s sports by rescinding federal funding from educational programs that didn’t comply. In February, his Department of Education launched an investigation into California’s Title IX compliance.[aside postID=news_12041770 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TrumpTransAthletesGetty-1020x638.jpg']In June, the U.S. Department of Education’s investigation found that the state had violated regulations, and it also gave California an ultimatum requiring it to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports and apologize to female athletes who had lost to transgender competitors within 10 days. If the state refused to do so, the letter said, the U.S. Department of Education could move to withhold funding or refer the case to the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIF and the state Department of Education sent letters to the U.S. Department of Education declining to sign a resolution agreement on Monday, saying that they disagreed with its Office of Civil Rights’ analysis. CIF and the state Education Department declined to comment, citing pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit filed Wednesday is the second such lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against a state that declined to comply with the federal order. It seeks to require California to ban transgender girls from competing in female sports in schools that receive federal funding and to provide compensation for athletes who the suit said have been denied equal athletic opportunities because of the state’s alleged Title IX violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the other states with laws like California’s is Maine, which the DOJ filed a similar suit against in April over its refusal to ban transgender athletes’ participation in sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billions of dollars in federal funding could be at stake. According to the complaint, the U.S. Department of Education has allocated about $44.3 billion to California for fiscal year 2025, with about $3.8 billion of that still “available for drawdown … including both discretionary grants and formula grants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the DOJ specifically cite California’s high school track and field championships this year, at which a transgender athlete from Riverside County competed in the girls’ high jump, triple jump and long jump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The athlete’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042352/trans-athlete-shines-in-california-high-school-track-finals-ignites-amid-policy-debate\">dominance in some of the events\u003c/a> spurred controversy leading up to the meet, amplified by Trump when he threatened on Truth Social to withhold federal funding from California if it did not prohibit the athlete from competing in alignment with his executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later, CIF announced that it would pilot a first-of-its-kind entry process at the track and field competition that allowed an additional athlete to advance to the finals and place in events with a transgender competitor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the DOJ’s lawsuit, CIF’s rule change allowed for an additional placement in the finals for a “biological female,” and in doing so “acknowledged the inherent athletic advantage males have over ‘biological female[s]’ and that allowing males to compete in female athletic competitions displaces girls and denies girls equal athletic opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout, the lawsuit also jabs at Newsom, who said in a March episode of his podcast “This is Gavin Newsom” that trans athletes’ participation in women’s sports \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030376/newsom-splits-with-democrats-on-trans-athletes-in-sports\">was “deeply unfair.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint included an email CIF Executive Director Ronald Nocetti sent to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond following the podcast. In the email, Nocetti asked for clarification on the state policy on trans athletes, saying comments made by Newsom “increased the level of confusion and concern of the CIF and our member schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three years ago this month, Kyle Casey Chu was reading stories to children at the San Lorenzo Public Library as part of a Drag Story Hour.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916918/sheriffs-investigating-hate-crime-after-alleged-proud-boys-disrupt-drag-queen-story-hour-with-homophobic-slurs\">members of the far-right Proud Boys interrupted the event\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, criticizing parents for bringing their kids and shouting slurs at Chu, who’s also known by her drag name Panda Dulce.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Chu is out with a new short film reflecting on the experience, the lack of justice in the case and the aftermath of public notoriety. It’s called \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">called \u003cem>After What Happened at the Library\u003c/em>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited and cut for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Vazquez: We know from the title that this short film is focused on what happened \u003cem>after\u003c/em> that 2022 incident at the library in San Lorenzo. Why was it important for you to tell \u003cem>that\u003c/em> story?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046521\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AWHATL-Poster-With-Laurels.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12046521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AWHATL-Poster-With-Laurels-160x237.png\" alt=\"A film poster showing a person behind a desk.\" width=\"160\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AWHATL-Poster-With-Laurels-160x237.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AWHATL-Poster-With-Laurels-2000x2963.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AWHATL-Poster-With-Laurels-1037x1536.png 1037w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AWHATL-Poster-With-Laurels-1382x2048.png 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The film poster for “After What Happened At The Library.” \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Kyle Casey Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyle Casey Chu:\u003c/strong> I’m really glad you asked this too, because a lot of my screenwriting and film enthusiast friends ask the same question. If the library is where it all went down, then why are we focusing on \u003cem>after\u003c/em> the drama? And to me, in my life, this event constituted an inciting incident as opposed to the bulk of the drama itself. And so, of course, you can never be prepared for a traumatic incident like that. But what I was also wholly unprepared for was the aftermath of public notoriety, which is being deluged by love letters and trauma dumps and journalistic requests to relive the experience over and over again. I really wanted to focus on what it means to be the subject of trauma and scrutiny, and what that looks like in the age of social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A big part of this film is about what it’s like to be the subject of really intense media interest. Can you say more about what that was like for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think, especially in this day and age when so much of the world we see and perceive is consumed through the small frame of our phone, it can be really easy to consume a moment in time and then forget that it had ever happened, just because we have such a rapidly cycling newsfeed. But for me, obviously, this is an event that is going to affect me for the rest of my life. And I think a lot of people who hear the story feel some sort of resonance to it, and they want to reach out to express support, to express disdain, hate, whatever it is. In the process, there are a lot of different opinions and polarizing views that are projected onto me. At the same time, there’s an expectation that as a public victim we are supposed to manage their responses and kind of interact with all of these conversations at once. And so this can add to the feeling of overwhelm at a time when we’re already struggling to make basic decisions in our lives and our executive functioning is sort of shot. And so I wanted to talk about this additional dimension because it kind of added to the alienation of being turned into a political football at a point when drag was vilified by the right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This is also in part about the response from local law enforcement. Can you tell us about that?\u003c/strong>[aside postID=news_11916918 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/AllegedProudBoys-1020x638.jpg']Another dimension on this incident is it ultimately resulted in zero consequences for those involved. Ultimately, the authorities said that this was out of their hands. There was nothing they could do. There was not enough evidence to constitute a hate crime when, in fact, hate crime measures are enhancements and so it can be added to an existing crime — for example, graffiti or harassing children. And in this case, this constituted an instance of harassment of children. And I believe it fit the category of a hate crime because of all the expletives and the transphobic insults they were hurling. But no names were taken. They were politely dismissed and asked to leave. And it was ultimately left to me to kind of clean up the aftermath and follow up with the department. And nothing came of it. And so it’s a little harrowing to think that something like this can happen. And you know, there’ll be lip service paid to say, ‘We don’t want this to happen again, this is unfortunate, etc.’ And then it’s ultimately toothless because these perpetrators are being told that they can do this again and again without any sort of repercussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Editor’s note: No one was arrested and no charges were filed against anyone involved in the incident. In a statement, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said “while the disturbance may have been a criminal act, it did not meet the elements of a hate crime.” \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sheriff’s office also said they identified several individuals connected to the incident and forwarded the case to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office to determine whether to file charges. The DA’s office told KQED\u003c/span> they couldn’t speculate about why former DA Pamela Price’s office didn’t press charges. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They said the statute of limitations has since run out.\u003c/span>]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When I was watching this, I really felt the stress of the aftermath of that moment. And then there’s a part where you’re getting ready and doing your makeup, and it felt really grounding, almost like a ritual. Is that how it feels for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, and I’m so glad you said that, because it feels witchy and ritualistic to me as well, and I think for a lot of my drag sisters. I felt it was important that we talk about drag as a safe place to feel magical, to feel like the most powerful versions of ourselves and, when that’s taken away from us, in order to feel the loss of that, we need to understand what it meant to this character and the world that it offered her. And so the reason why we have this sort of surrealistic drag ritual is to show exactly what it means to her. It’s this place where she feels protected and safe and free. And for me, whenever you get into drag, it’s like one to two to three hours of just making yourself as beautiful as you possibly can. And my relationship to drag has fundamentally changed after this incident. And so I thought it’s important to kind of honor the process in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’re a few years out from this incident. How do you feel when you reflect on what you went through?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain of it dulls as time goes on. And at the same time, I’m also seeing a lot of conservative pundits make examples and political footballs out of fellow artists who I know. And I do my best to reach out to them and to advise them they don’t have to take every interview. They can do whatever they need to do to preserve themselves, especially when they’re in an acute crisis that feels like they must act on a fight-or-flight instinct. It’s something that’s going to be kind of a lingering sector in my drag practice whenever I take on a gig. Like, I don’t know, especially growing up in San Francisco, I started drag really young and it was just always a place of imagination and play, and nothing further really. And I think now there’s a shadow clinging to the underbelly that is going to be persistent, and it only means that I have to be more persistent and returning to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/%E2%9C%A8-AWHATL-Still-6-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046519\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/%E2%9C%A8-AWHATL-Still-6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An image of the back of a person's head facing a mirror with lights around it.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/✨-AWHATL-Still-6-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/✨-AWHATL-Still-6-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/✨-AWHATL-Still-6-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/✨-AWHATL-Still-6-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/✨-AWHATL-Still-6-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still image from the film “After What Happened At The Library.” \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Kyle Casey Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This film has been competing in different film festivals across the country. Can you talk about what the reaction to it has been?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is such as a real experience to actually share this project after three years in the making. You know, it started off as a Word doc with my best friend and I … a private little document where we just, you know, spilled our guts out. And from script to screen, it’s incredibly rewarding to see in live theater screenings the real time reactions that people are laughing where we want them to laugh and they’re quiet and ruminative at the exact beats that we wanted them to be. It feels like a well-crafted machine that’s finally being shared — if I can use a mechanical metaphor, which I usually never do. But it’s ultimately very rewarding and cathartic. To come out of this experience feeling voiceless and powerless and kind of robbed of my own agency and authorship over my story, and to re-enter this process having shot on location at San Lorenzo Public Library, to play the role and to revisit the scene of the crime surrounded by loved ones and collaborators and people who I really love and trust… has transformed the experience for me. It was the ultimate exercise in an exorcism, and I would recommend that to anyone who has has any sort incident or rumination that’s bouncing around in their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And so the reason why we have this sort of surrealistic drag ritual is to show exactly what it means to her. It’s this place where she feels protected and safe and free. And for me, whenever you get into drag, it’s like one to two to three hours of just making yourself as beautiful as you possibly can. And my relationship to drag has fundamentally changed after this incident. And so I thought it’s important to kind of honor the process in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’re a few years out from this incident. How do you feel when you reflect on what you went through?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain of it dulls as time goes on. And at the same time, I’m also seeing a lot of conservative pundits make examples and political footballs out of fellow artists who I know. And I do my best to reach out to them and to advise them they don’t have to take every interview. 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The three shared the first-place win, smiling as they stepped together onto the podium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez wrapped up the night with a first place finish in the triple jump, sharing the top spot with Kira Gant Hatcher who trailed by just over a half-meter. Earlier in the afternoon, Hernandez placed second in the long jump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olympians Marion Jones and Tara Davis-Woodhall previously set state championship records in the long jump in 1993 and 2017, respectively, both surpassing 22 feet. This year’s winner, Loren Webster, topped 21 feet, with Hernandez trailing by a few inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation announced the new policy earlier this week in response to Hernandez’s success heading into the championships. 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Temperatures reached the triple digits during Saturday’s finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25152105209919-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042355\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25152105209919-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young person in a track and field uniform jumps over a bar.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25152105209919-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25152105209919-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25152105209919-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25152105209919-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25152105209919-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25152105209919-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25152105209919-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AB Hernandez, a transgender student at Jurupa Valley High School, competes in the high jump at the California high school track-and-field championships in Clovis, Saturday, May 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jae C. 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According to the policy, the federation will \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-transgender-athletes-state-championship-girls-f91965a7fa6d2f9dff19896af29f6b89\">let an additional student compete\u003c/a> and medal in the events where a trans athlete qualified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day championship kicked off in the sweltering heat at high school near Fresno. The atmosphere was relatively quiet Friday despite critics — including parents, conservative activists and Trump — calling for the athlete to be barred from girls competition leading up to the meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some pushback Friday. A group of fewer than 10 people gathered outside the stadium ahead of the meet to protest. Some of them wore “Save Girls’ Sports” T-shirts. At one point as the athlete was attempting a high jump, someone in the stands yelled an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12041770 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TrumpTransAthletesGetty-1020x638.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aircraft circled above the stadium for more than an hour during the events, carrying a banner that read, “No Boys in Girls’ Sports!” Two groups, the Independent Council on Women’s Sports and Women Are Real, that oppose transgender athletes participating in women’s sports took credit for flying the banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, one person was arrested outside the competition on Friday after getting in a confrontation with another protester that turned physical, according to the Clovis Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California at center of national debate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The federation’s rule change reflects efforts to find a middle ground in the debate over trans girls’ participation in youth sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CIF values all of our student-athletes and we will continue to uphold our mission of providing students with the opportunity to belong, connect, and compete while complying with California law,” the group said in a statement after announcing its rule change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/may-W2-2025-topline-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent AP-NORC poll\u003c/a> found that about 7 in 10 U.S. adults think transgender female athletes should not be allowed to participate in girls and women’s sports at the high school, college or professional level. 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The federation said it decided on the change before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice also said it would investigate the state federation and the district that includes the trans athlete’s high school to determine whether they violated federal sex discrimination law by allowing trans girls to compete in girls sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California Republicans also weighed in, with several state lawmakers attending a news conference to criticize the federation for keeping the athlete in the competition and a Republican gubernatorial candidate planning to attend Saturday’s finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law allows trans students to compete on sex-segregated sports teams consistent with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federation said the rule would open the field to more “biological female” athletes. 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That view was shared by about 9 in 10 Republicans and roughly half of Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2217942917.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2217942917.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2217942917-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2217942917-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2217942917-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hold Save Girls Sports signs in protest of a transgender athlete of Jurupa Valley (not pictured) during the CIF State Track and Field Championships at Veterans Memorial Stadium on May 30, 2025 in Clovis, Fresno County. \u003ccite>(Kirby Lee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The federation announced the rule change after Trump threatened this week to pull federal funding from California unless it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-transgender-athletes-3606411fc12efffec95a893351624e1b\">bars trans female athletes\u003c/a> from competing on girls teams. The federation said it decided on the change before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice also said it would investigate the state federation and the district that includes the trans athlete’s high school to determine whether they violated federal sex discrimination law by allowing trans girls to compete in girls sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California Republicans also weighed in, with several state lawmakers attending a news conference to criticize the federation for keeping the athlete in the competition and a Republican gubernatorial candidate planning to attend Saturday’s finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law allows trans students to compete on sex-segregated sports teams consistent with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federation said the rule would open the field to more “biological female” athletes. One expert said the change may itself be discriminatory because it creates an extra spot for “biological female” athletes but not for other trans athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federation did not specify how they define “biological female” or how they would verify whether a competitor meets that definition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another student breaks a record\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s state championship stands out from that of other states because of the number of competitors athletes are up against to qualify. The state had the second-largest number of students participating in outdoor track and field in the nation during the 2023–2024 school year, behind Texas, according to a survey by the National Federation of State High School Associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olympians Marion Jones and Tara Davis-Woodhall previously set state championship records in the long jump in 1993 and 2017, respectively, both surpassing 22 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boys 100-meter dash heats were also a highlight Friday. Junior Jaden Jefferson of De La Salle High School in Concord finished in 10.01 seconds, about 0.2 seconds faster than a meet record set in 2023. Jefferson’s time won’t count as a record unless he can replicate his results in the final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been edited to remove the name of the transgender athlete, who is a minor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After social media threats from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Trump\u003c/a>, California’s high school sports governing body said it will allow cisgender female track athletes who lost their qualifying positions to transgender competitors to still be able to compete in an upcoming state championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation announced the change on Tuesday, just hours after Trump posted on social media that he would withhold billions of dollars in federal education funds from the state if officials didn’t block a transgender female athlete from competing at the State Track and Field Championships in Clovis next weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CIF believes this pilot entry process achieves the participation opportunities we seek to afford our student-athletes,” the group said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIF had adopted its new policy before Trump issued his threat, according to Izzy Gardon, a spokesperson for the governor’s office. 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Please be hereby advised that large-scale Federal Funding will be held back, maybe permanently, if the Executive Order on this subject matter is not adhered to,” he continued, referring to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">February order\u003c/a> that “rescinds all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco lambasted the president’s statement, calling the threat illegal and urging California to challenge it in court if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, this is just another chapter in Donald Trump’s war on transgender people,” he told KQED. “It’s just outrageous. 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Though agriculture is a nearly $60 billion industry in the state, many farmworkers on the Central Coast \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-05-23/as-fields-brim-with-fruit-food-insecurity-persists-for-central-coast-farmworkers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">don’t have enough to eat. \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A school board in Temecula, that’s been embroiled in controversy for the last two years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-05-23/temecula-school-board-to-reconsider-transgender-notification-policy\">wants to revive a contentious policy\u003c/a> to require schools to notify parents if their child is transgender. They’re meeting Tuesday to brainstorm ideas to get around a state law that prohibits such policies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-05-23/as-fields-brim-with-fruit-food-insecurity-persists-for-central-coast-farmworkers\">\u003cstrong>As Fields Brim With Fruit, Food Insecurity Persists For Central Coast Farmworkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>May marks the beginning of harvest season—when some 800,000 farmworkers in California get to work picking food that lands on tables around the world. In 2023, California farms made nearly $60 billion but many farmworkers on the Central Coast still don’t have enough to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann López has been advocating for farmworker rights for nearly two decades. Her organization,\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://farmworkerfamily.org/projects-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\"> \u003cu>Center for Farmworker Families\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, started monthly food distribution events to support hungry farmworkers six years ago. “I found a family hungry in this community. The kids were crying because they were so hungry. And I thought, we’re not gonna do this,” says López. “This is immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López called\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.thefoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\"> \u003cu>Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to figure out a solution to feeding the farmworker community. Second Harvest partners with 173 programs across the county to deliver roughly 10 million pounds of food annually. They were among the handful of organizations that provided food for the first event. Now, over 20 organizations pitch in items including clothes, toiletries, toys, and household goods for farmworkers to take home free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A National Agricultural Workers\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/naws/pdfs/NAWS%20Research%20Report%2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\"> \u003cu>Survey\u003c/u>\u003c/a> estimated nearly 25 percent of California farmworkers were living below the poverty line before the pandemic. While these events help farmworkers get closer to meeting their basic needs, how many families show up varies. Past events have provided goods for up to 400 families, López says, but this month roughly 90 families turned out. Ernestina is a retired farmworker who has worked with López for 14 years and says the threat of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stopped people from coming. “Fear doesn’t let us move forward. Today, many families missed out because there were rumors of ICE,” Ernestina, who asked us not to use her last name, says in Spanish. “While people are scared, they also need to have food at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-05-23/temecula-school-board-to-reconsider-transgender-notification-policy\">\u003cstrong>Temecula School Board To Reconsider Transgender Notification Policy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Temecula school board— that’s been embroiled in controversy for the last two years— wants to revive a contentious policy to require schools to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/news/2023-08-23/temecula-school-board-adopts-policy-to-notify-parents-if-student-is-transgender\">notify parents\u003c/a> if their child is transgender. They’re meeting Tuesday to brainstorm ideas to get around \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019618/california-bans-schools-from-forcing-teachers-to-out-lgbtq-students\">a state law\u003c/a> that prohibits such policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meeting comes months after the board was forced to rescind its original transgender notification policy. That’s because a state agency ruled that the board violated teacher’s contracts in how it created the policy. Subsequently, state lawmakers banned schools from outing transgender students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One idea the board will discuss is sending automatic notifications to parents anytime a student changes their record— like their name or gender. The nearby Chino Valley district adopted a similar policy. Critics say transgender notification makes LGBTQ students unsafe and unnecessarily brings divisive national politics into schools.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> has flooded the first 100 days of his second term with a flurry of executive orders. His policies have included mass federal layoffs, sweeping tariffs, an overhaul of the country’s immigration system, the elimination of DEI initiatives and efforts to curb transgender rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Trump’s approval among all California registered voters is 30% — lower than his 39% approval in 2017 — according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/128155g3\">poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark DiCamillo, the director of the IGS poll, said Trump’s ratings are historically low. “Usually, presidents start out with a high approval because they’re in a honeymoon period. That’s not the case with Trump in California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many Californians remain enthusiastic about the direction of the country under Trump’s leadership. Among California Republicans, 75% approve of how the president is handling the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how they feel about the president’s policies in his first three months, Trump voters across the state, from San Diego to Humboldt counties, told KQED they are “ecstatic,” “elated,” “thrilled” and “proud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the two dozen California Trump voters interviewed for this story, some were more cautious — even skeptical. Several expressed a desire for Trump to take more of a scalpel, rather than an ax, approach in his agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following six voters shared how the president’s policies have impacted their lives and communities in his first 100 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shannon Kessler, 56, San Luis Obispo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I’m really pleased with his policies and presidency. It’s what I was hoping for when I voted for him,” said Shannon Kessler, a mom to a now-graduated track and field athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kessler feels the country now has an administration that will stand up for girls. As a former student-athlete, she doesn’t think it’s fair for transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Kessler sits in her home in Arroyo Grande, California, on Monday, May 5, 2025. Kessler, a Trump voter in 2016 and 2024, says she’s encouraged by the president’s actions during his first 100 days in office. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March, Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a conversation with conservative activist Charlie Kirk, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030376/newsom-splits-with-democrats-on-trans-athletes-in-sports\">called transgender participation in women’s sports\u003c/a> “deeply unfair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree with him on that, but he has done nothing to change that,” Kessler, a real estate agent, said of Newsom’s comment. “He could set an example and take action to protect girls. He’s the father of girls.” She wants to see Newsom push Democratic legislators to support bills like one that would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-01/hearing-on-trans-kids-in-school-sports\">banned transgender athletes\u003c/a> from girls’ sports, locker rooms, bathrooms and dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a fifth-generation Californian, Kessler said she’s seen the state burden its residents with “extreme regulations” on housing and water rights. She’s glad to see Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996483/never-before-seen-documents-reveal-epa-canceled-63-grants-across-california\">dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> and taking power away from “out-of-control three-letter agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kessler is among the nearly 40% of Californians who voted for Trump. She said she’s resentful that Democratic leadership has vowed to fight the administration and doesn’t feel represented when she reads about Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta building up a war chest of taxpayer dollars to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038732/california-sues-to-block-trump-and-rfk-jr-health-cuts-that-shuttered-sf-office\">sue the Trump administration\u003c/a> over policies like tariffs, dismantling federal agencies and withholding research grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It offends me that they’re supposed to be my representatives,” she said. “That doesn’t represent me at all. Why do you want to fight with your government? Why don’t you just work with them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Emma Valdez Garrison, 19, Fresno\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“As a woman who lives in California, we’ve created such a dangerous climate for young women,” said Emma Valdez Garrison, a 19-year-old political science major at California State University, Fresno. “Seeing a president and a man who’s standing up against the invasion of our country is something that I’m personally really excited to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrison supports Trump’s push for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031468/trumps-anti-dei-crackdown-targets-over-50-universities-nationwide\">colleges and universities to eliminate DEI\u003c/a> in their hiring and admissions processes. “It brings back merit-based hiring and performance-based hiring,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrumpTigerWoods-e1742423060297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump and golf legend Tiger Woods arrive for a reception honoring Black History Month in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The Black History Month celebration comes as Trump has signed a series of executive orders ending federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and cutting funding to schools and universities that do not cut DEI programs. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recently, a woman in Garrison’s sorority shared a trans visibility day post on the group’s social media page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time, as a sorority, they’ve promoted ideas that are really woke and against what the majority of the girls in the house believe,” Garrison said. “A lot of girls felt like they couldn’t say anything because federally it was accepted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after Trump was inaugurated, Garrison said she and other women in their sorority felt emboldened to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039096\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Kessler lays out her Trump hats in her home in Arroyo Grande, California, on Monday, May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We finally felt confident enough to say we’re against this as a sorority,” she said. “It’s no longer going to be something that we as a sorority post or celebrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrison is also relieved to see Trump targeting undocumented immigrants and issuing mass deportations. Her grandmother immigrated to the United States from Mexico when she was 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She did it the legal way. She did it the hard way. It cost her a lot of money. It cost her a lot of time,” Garrison said. “It was a big sacrifice for her to become a United States citizen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her grandmother feels it’s unfair when unauthorized immigrants receive certain benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ben Pino, 55, Los Angeles County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ben Pino was a lifelong Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. However, after Trump’s first term, he noticed more money in his pocket and purchased a condo in 2019 that he said has nearly doubled in value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was impressed because I’ve never seen someone take so much action in such a short amount of time and truly make a difference on my day-to-day living,” Pino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Pino in his neighborhood in Los Angeles County on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pino voted for Trump in 2020 and again in 2024. He’s happy with the president’s policies so far this year, especially on immigration. Although he sympathizes with people coming to the U.S. in search of a better life, he thinks the Biden administration allowed too many people to enter the country illegally, leaving Trump no choice but to enforce mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents waited eight years to come here from Cuba,” Pino said. “They waited patiently until it was their turn, and they came with permission and they became naturalized citizens.”[aside postID=news_12038735 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/039_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7340_qed-1020x680.jpg']But Pino does have one criticism of Trump: his rhetoric on transgender issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He takes down the entire Republican Party that way by making us look like we’re maybe not kind to other people,” Pino said. His friend recently transitioned, and he worries that Trump is “creating a climate where [the transgender community] could be disrespected or maybe even treated unfairly or unkindly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino endorses Trump’s executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025974/federal-officials-investigate-san-jose-state-under-trumps-order-trans-athletes\">barring transgender girls and women\u003c/a> from competing in sports that align with their gender identity. However, he disagrees with his order \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">recognizing only two sexes\u003c/a>. “I don’t think that you should just throw them to the wolves and just ignore them now and pretend like they never existed,” Pino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He views Trump more as a reality show character than a polished politician. Although he agrees with the policies, he’s a bit horrified by Trump’s delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the people that we’re deporting, I don’t want them deported because they’re different,” he said. “I want them to be deported because they came here illegally. So I just wish he’d lighten up on that stance there a little bit and not be so mean to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kim Durham, 68, Sacramento\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I am glad to see the corruptness exposed,” Kim Durham said, referring to the federal agencies scaled back or gutted by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not saying [Musk’s] done a perfect job,” Durham said. She thinks DOGE will have to revisit some of their cuts and consider re-employing some workers. She believes the administration had to move quickly to make sufficient progress in four years. “Unfortunately, they’re going to have to let a lot of good people go, too, if we’re cutting back on the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Durham sits outside of an apartment she rents outside of Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to Musk’s efforts to slash federal staffing and budgets, protestors have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033741/protesters-swarm-tesla-showrooms-to-oppose-elon-musks-purge-of-us-government\">targeted the billionaire’s electric car company\u003c/a>, vandalizing Tesla vehicles and charging stations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909107/anti-musk-sentiment-boils-over-to-tesla-owners\">holding “Tesla Takedown” demonstrations\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m extremely disheartened to see the level of evil that’s being generated against Elon Musk [and] the Tesla dealerships,” Durham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that it’s one thing to boycott a company you don’t like and another thing to involve innocent people caught in the crosshairs. “I feel for every employee that works at any of those dealerships.”[aside postID=news_12038128 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-21-1020x680.jpg']Durham’s daughter and son-in-law are both police officers, and she’s concerned by how politicized the job has become. The “defund the police” movement, in her view, has discouraged people from entering the police academy and contributed to challenges in police recruitment and retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defund the police has done a lot of damage here,” she said. “A police officer ought to be able to do his or her job to protect the people, regardless. It shouldn’t be such a political thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having worked in the print and shipping industry for 25 years, Durham noted that her company purchases much of its paper and ink from overseas, including China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of Trump’s tariffs, currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909786/trumps-tariff-strategy-risks-long-term-damage-to-us-china-relationship\">up to 145% against China\u003c/a>, Durham’s employer is looking to adapt by purchasing from different countries or offering customers digital marketing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Durham’s not worried. In the short term, she anticipates the tariffs will harm the business and may even reduce her income. But in the long term, she hopes they will encourage timber industries and paper mills to reopen in America — providing more jobs and bolstering the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s gonna hurt for a bit,” Durham explained. “I’m willing to lose a little bit myself for the country that I’d like to see my little granddaughter here enjoy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cindy Cremona, 65, San Diego County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cindy Cremona approves of Trump’s plans to expand natural resource extraction, especially opening oil reserves to lower gas prices. However, she wants the administration to remain environmentally responsible. “You can be conservative and still care about the environment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona lives in Encinitas, a coastal North County beach city in San Diego, with her dogs, horse and a rescue frog in her backyard pond. She worries that overdevelopment in the region has destroyed wildlife corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039413 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Cremona and her 12-year-old Andalusian horse Durango in San Marcos, California, on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carolyne Corelis/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can’t let my dogs out in the yard alone anymore because bobcats and coyotes are jumping into yards and eating our pets,” she said. “They’re doing that because they’re being squeezed out of every last bit of open space in our residential communities. And that’s heartbreaking to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a recruiter for life science technology companies, Cremona is concerned about the pace of Trump’s federal overhaul, especially when it comes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030313/uc-berkeley-scientists-protest-trump-administrations-cuts-to-research-funding\">National Institutes of Health funding cuts\u003c/a>. She’s already noticed companies slowing down hiring as they wait to see how grant funding and layoffs play out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports the general idea of government audits and eliminating waste, Cremona takes issue with broad changes. “Sometimes it’s not what you do, it’s how you do it,” she said. “I would have preferred a more thoughtful scalpel approach.”[aside postID=news_12038033 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-CHINATOWNTARIFFS-30-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Still, Cremona expects Trump’s “shock and awe” approach will include some backpedaling. “There’s a lot of hysteria about what’s been cut and how it’s gonna hurt,” she said. “I just think it’s way too early to make a judgment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sees Trump’s handling of government as his signature businessman approach that differs from most politicians. “As a businesswoman, I appreciate that and I relate to it,” she said. “I don’t always like his particular style, though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona, who is currently shopping for a new car, is considering an American-made model because of Trump’s auto tariffs, despite typically buying foreign vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes Trump is using tariffs to reset the economy toward self-reliance. “I think this president, if anybody, can get China to bow down,” she said. “Because China is as much of a bully as [Trump is]. He’s not afraid of China.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the tariffs cause short-term pain, including the drop she’s noticed in her retirement savings, Cremona remains confident that they will ultimately bolster the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m cautiously optimistic,” she said. “I’m excited, I like change. I think the country needed a little shakeup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Emerson Green, 25, El Dorado County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Emerson Green feels “a little let down” by Trump’s second term so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he initially supported Trump and Musk’s efforts to downsize the federal workforce, he “expected that a lot of that stuff would just hit a brick wall in the court system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hiring freezes were a little bit shocking,” Green said. His mom had applied for a job with the Internal Revenue Service — a job she was excited to secure for its good pay and benefits — and received an offer letter. However, when Trump issued an across-the-board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034478/federal-workers-fired-thousands-california-wants-hire-them\">government hiring freeze\u003c/a>, her offer was rescinded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1489px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1489\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg 1489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerson Green sits during a hike in Adams Canyon, Utah, on May 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emerson Green)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just think that’s a really big sort of middle finger to the American working class,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green agrees with Trump’s objective of eliminating fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government. He just wants a more nuanced approach, such as limited hiring freezes on certain branches of the IRS, where wasteful spending could be more clearly pinpointed. “A lot of these things did make sense at the time, but the way they’re being enforced just raises some eyebrows for me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Musk’s role in the administration, Green is ambivalent but dislikes that Musk touts the need for people to work 80-hour workweeks. “The thing that really grosses me out is how the Trump administration is sort of playing along with this dialogue of reducing people to just economic units,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until a few weeks ago, Green worked at AutoZone, where he noticed that parts imported from China were already increasing in price. Before that, he ran his own headstone company and imported much of the granite from China and India. He supports Trump’s intent behind imposing tariffs to boost American manufacturing, but worries that the sweeping policies will hurt small businesses the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Green gives Trump credit for trying to address long-standing issues and doing what he promised on the campaign trail. “At the very least, what I can give kudos to Trump for is actually trying to do the things,” Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said he “somewhat regrets” voting for Trump in November, but he still wouldn’t have voted for Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing where things have ended up now, I probably either would’ve hesitantly voted for him or just abstained altogether,” Green said. “I think honestly, from a moral standpoint, I probably would have abstained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Has President Donald Trump’s second term affected your life or community? KQED is continuing our reporting on how Californians are experiencing the administration’s policies. Share your story using \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SutmEdDAaQ3_y2onK16kD98WsM_H-JrsTYFxGzh7UXo/edit\">\u003cem>our form\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. You can also reach our politics team directly at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"mailto:politics@kqed.org\">\u003cem>politics@kqed.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-6Em0FA1xZECy5BUiL9ZpDYksuiNmoh2TaPYkoWn-fV9wlQ/viewform?usp=preview\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many Californians remain enthusiastic about the direction of the country under Trump’s leadership. Among California Republicans, 75% approve of how the president is handling the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how they feel about the president’s policies in his first three months, Trump voters across the state, from San Diego to Humboldt counties, told KQED they are “ecstatic,” “elated,” “thrilled” and “proud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the two dozen California Trump voters interviewed for this story, some were more cautious — even skeptical. Several expressed a desire for Trump to take more of a scalpel, rather than an ax, approach in his agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following six voters shared how the president’s policies have impacted their lives and communities in his first 100 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shannon Kessler, 56, San Luis Obispo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I’m really pleased with his policies and presidency. It’s what I was hoping for when I voted for him,” said Shannon Kessler, a mom to a now-graduated track and field athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kessler feels the country now has an administration that will stand up for girls. As a former student-athlete, she doesn’t think it’s fair for transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Kessler sits in her home in Arroyo Grande, California, on Monday, May 5, 2025. Kessler, a Trump voter in 2016 and 2024, says she’s encouraged by the president’s actions during his first 100 days in office. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March, Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a conversation with conservative activist Charlie Kirk, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030376/newsom-splits-with-democrats-on-trans-athletes-in-sports\">called transgender participation in women’s sports\u003c/a> “deeply unfair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree with him on that, but he has done nothing to change that,” Kessler, a real estate agent, said of Newsom’s comment. “He could set an example and take action to protect girls. He’s the father of girls.” She wants to see Newsom push Democratic legislators to support bills like one that would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-01/hearing-on-trans-kids-in-school-sports\">banned transgender athletes\u003c/a> from girls’ sports, locker rooms, bathrooms and dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a fifth-generation Californian, Kessler said she’s seen the state burden its residents with “extreme regulations” on housing and water rights. She’s glad to see Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996483/never-before-seen-documents-reveal-epa-canceled-63-grants-across-california\">dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> and taking power away from “out-of-control three-letter agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kessler is among the nearly 40% of Californians who voted for Trump. She said she’s resentful that Democratic leadership has vowed to fight the administration and doesn’t feel represented when she reads about Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta building up a war chest of taxpayer dollars to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038732/california-sues-to-block-trump-and-rfk-jr-health-cuts-that-shuttered-sf-office\">sue the Trump administration\u003c/a> over policies like tariffs, dismantling federal agencies and withholding research grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It offends me that they’re supposed to be my representatives,” she said. “That doesn’t represent me at all. Why do you want to fight with your government? Why don’t you just work with them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Emma Valdez Garrison, 19, Fresno\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“As a woman who lives in California, we’ve created such a dangerous climate for young women,” said Emma Valdez Garrison, a 19-year-old political science major at California State University, Fresno. “Seeing a president and a man who’s standing up against the invasion of our country is something that I’m personally really excited to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrison supports Trump’s push for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031468/trumps-anti-dei-crackdown-targets-over-50-universities-nationwide\">colleges and universities to eliminate DEI\u003c/a> in their hiring and admissions processes. “It brings back merit-based hiring and performance-based hiring,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrumpTigerWoods-e1742423060297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump and golf legend Tiger Woods arrive for a reception honoring Black History Month in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The Black History Month celebration comes as Trump has signed a series of executive orders ending federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and cutting funding to schools and universities that do not cut DEI programs. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recently, a woman in Garrison’s sorority shared a trans visibility day post on the group’s social media page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time, as a sorority, they’ve promoted ideas that are really woke and against what the majority of the girls in the house believe,” Garrison said. “A lot of girls felt like they couldn’t say anything because federally it was accepted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after Trump was inaugurated, Garrison said she and other women in their sorority felt emboldened to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039096\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TRUMPS-100-DAYS-2025-LEOPO-8-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Kessler lays out her Trump hats in her home in Arroyo Grande, California, on Monday, May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We finally felt confident enough to say we’re against this as a sorority,” she said. “It’s no longer going to be something that we as a sorority post or celebrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrison is also relieved to see Trump targeting undocumented immigrants and issuing mass deportations. Her grandmother immigrated to the United States from Mexico when she was 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She did it the legal way. She did it the hard way. It cost her a lot of money. It cost her a lot of time,” Garrison said. “It was a big sacrifice for her to become a United States citizen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her grandmother feels it’s unfair when unauthorized immigrants receive certain benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ben Pino, 55, Los Angeles County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ben Pino was a lifelong Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. However, after Trump’s first term, he noticed more money in his pocket and purchased a condo in 2019 that he said has nearly doubled in value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was impressed because I’ve never seen someone take so much action in such a short amount of time and truly make a difference on my day-to-day living,” Pino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Pino in his neighborhood in Los Angeles County on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pino voted for Trump in 2020 and again in 2024. He’s happy with the president’s policies so far this year, especially on immigration. Although he sympathizes with people coming to the U.S. in search of a better life, he thinks the Biden administration allowed too many people to enter the country illegally, leaving Trump no choice but to enforce mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents waited eight years to come here from Cuba,” Pino said. “They waited patiently until it was their turn, and they came with permission and they became naturalized citizens.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Pino does have one criticism of Trump: his rhetoric on transgender issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He takes down the entire Republican Party that way by making us look like we’re maybe not kind to other people,” Pino said. His friend recently transitioned, and he worries that Trump is “creating a climate where [the transgender community] could be disrespected or maybe even treated unfairly or unkindly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino endorses Trump’s executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025974/federal-officials-investigate-san-jose-state-under-trumps-order-trans-athletes\">barring transgender girls and women\u003c/a> from competing in sports that align with their gender identity. However, he disagrees with his order \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">recognizing only two sexes\u003c/a>. “I don’t think that you should just throw them to the wolves and just ignore them now and pretend like they never existed,” Pino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He views Trump more as a reality show character than a polished politician. Although he agrees with the policies, he’s a bit horrified by Trump’s delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the people that we’re deporting, I don’t want them deported because they’re different,” he said. “I want them to be deported because they came here illegally. So I just wish he’d lighten up on that stance there a little bit and not be so mean to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kim Durham, 68, Sacramento\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I am glad to see the corruptness exposed,” Kim Durham said, referring to the federal agencies scaled back or gutted by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not saying [Musk’s] done a perfect job,” Durham said. She thinks DOGE will have to revisit some of their cuts and consider re-employing some workers. She believes the administration had to move quickly to make sufficient progress in four years. “Unfortunately, they’re going to have to let a lot of good people go, too, if we’re cutting back on the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Durham sits outside of an apartment she rents outside of Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to Musk’s efforts to slash federal staffing and budgets, protestors have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033741/protesters-swarm-tesla-showrooms-to-oppose-elon-musks-purge-of-us-government\">targeted the billionaire’s electric car company\u003c/a>, vandalizing Tesla vehicles and charging stations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909107/anti-musk-sentiment-boils-over-to-tesla-owners\">holding “Tesla Takedown” demonstrations\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m extremely disheartened to see the level of evil that’s being generated against Elon Musk [and] the Tesla dealerships,” Durham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that it’s one thing to boycott a company you don’t like and another thing to involve innocent people caught in the crosshairs. “I feel for every employee that works at any of those dealerships.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Durham’s daughter and son-in-law are both police officers, and she’s concerned by how politicized the job has become. The “defund the police” movement, in her view, has discouraged people from entering the police academy and contributed to challenges in police recruitment and retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defund the police has done a lot of damage here,” she said. “A police officer ought to be able to do his or her job to protect the people, regardless. It shouldn’t be such a political thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having worked in the print and shipping industry for 25 years, Durham noted that her company purchases much of its paper and ink from overseas, including China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of Trump’s tariffs, currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909786/trumps-tariff-strategy-risks-long-term-damage-to-us-china-relationship\">up to 145% against China\u003c/a>, Durham’s employer is looking to adapt by purchasing from different countries or offering customers digital marketing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Durham’s not worried. In the short term, she anticipates the tariffs will harm the business and may even reduce her income. But in the long term, she hopes they will encourage timber industries and paper mills to reopen in America — providing more jobs and bolstering the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s gonna hurt for a bit,” Durham explained. “I’m willing to lose a little bit myself for the country that I’d like to see my little granddaughter here enjoy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cindy Cremona, 65, San Diego County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cindy Cremona approves of Trump’s plans to expand natural resource extraction, especially opening oil reserves to lower gas prices. However, she wants the administration to remain environmentally responsible. “You can be conservative and still care about the environment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona lives in Encinitas, a coastal North County beach city in San Diego, with her dogs, horse and a rescue frog in her backyard pond. She worries that overdevelopment in the region has destroyed wildlife corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039413 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Cremona and her 12-year-old Andalusian horse Durango in San Marcos, California, on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carolyne Corelis/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can’t let my dogs out in the yard alone anymore because bobcats and coyotes are jumping into yards and eating our pets,” she said. “They’re doing that because they’re being squeezed out of every last bit of open space in our residential communities. And that’s heartbreaking to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a recruiter for life science technology companies, Cremona is concerned about the pace of Trump’s federal overhaul, especially when it comes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030313/uc-berkeley-scientists-protest-trump-administrations-cuts-to-research-funding\">National Institutes of Health funding cuts\u003c/a>. She’s already noticed companies slowing down hiring as they wait to see how grant funding and layoffs play out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports the general idea of government audits and eliminating waste, Cremona takes issue with broad changes. “Sometimes it’s not what you do, it’s how you do it,” she said. “I would have preferred a more thoughtful scalpel approach.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, Cremona expects Trump’s “shock and awe” approach will include some backpedaling. “There’s a lot of hysteria about what’s been cut and how it’s gonna hurt,” she said. “I just think it’s way too early to make a judgment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sees Trump’s handling of government as his signature businessman approach that differs from most politicians. “As a businesswoman, I appreciate that and I relate to it,” she said. “I don’t always like his particular style, though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona, who is currently shopping for a new car, is considering an American-made model because of Trump’s auto tariffs, despite typically buying foreign vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes Trump is using tariffs to reset the economy toward self-reliance. “I think this president, if anybody, can get China to bow down,” she said. “Because China is as much of a bully as [Trump is]. He’s not afraid of China.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the tariffs cause short-term pain, including the drop she’s noticed in her retirement savings, Cremona remains confident that they will ultimately bolster the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m cautiously optimistic,” she said. “I’m excited, I like change. I think the country needed a little shakeup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Emerson Green, 25, El Dorado County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Emerson Green feels “a little let down” by Trump’s second term so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he initially supported Trump and Musk’s efforts to downsize the federal workforce, he “expected that a lot of that stuff would just hit a brick wall in the court system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hiring freezes were a little bit shocking,” Green said. His mom had applied for a job with the Internal Revenue Service — a job she was excited to secure for its good pay and benefits — and received an offer letter. However, when Trump issued an across-the-board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034478/federal-workers-fired-thousands-california-wants-hire-them\">government hiring freeze\u003c/a>, her offer was rescinded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1489px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1489\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg 1489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerson Green sits during a hike in Adams Canyon, Utah, on May 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emerson Green)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just think that’s a really big sort of middle finger to the American working class,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green agrees with Trump’s objective of eliminating fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government. 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