Elon Musk, CEO and owner of SpaceX, said Tuesday he will move the headquarters of both companies from California to Texas.

Musk announced these measures in response to California Governor Gavin Newsom signing a new law that prohibits school districts in California from requiring parents to provide notification of a child's change in gender identification.

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“This is the last straw. Because of this law and many other laws before it that attacked both families and businesses, SpaceX will now be moving its headquarters from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas,” Musk posted on X. He later added that the X headquarters would also be moved from San Francisco to Austin.

The “X” sign on the headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter in San Francisco on July 28, 2023.Noah Berger / AP File

“I made it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws like this would force families and businesses to leave California to protect their children,” he added.

In 2022, People magazine reported, Elon Musk's then 18-year-old daughter received permission to officially change her name and gender. She dropped the surname Musk and instead adopted her mother's maiden name, Justine Wilson.

When asked about his estranged transgender daughter in October 2022, Musk told the Financial Times, “You can't win them all,” and claimed to have a good relationship with all of his other children.

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In 2021, Musk, also CEO of Tesla, moved his automaker's headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin.

SpaceX did not immediately respond to requests for further information.

This story first appeared on CNBC.com

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• Tutt said she was left ‘crushed’ after incident in 2020 on one of the first times she venture out presenting as a woman
• The former WWE star is open about her transition from gladiator Tyler Reks to the woman she is today
•  She and her family moved from San Francisco to Austin, Texas in before the pandemic but said she has had largely positive experiences in the LGBTQ+ hostile state

Transgender WWE star Gabi Tutt has opened up about the moment she broke down in tears after a store clerk misgendered her.

The wrestler turned influencer explained how she was left feeling ‘crushed’ after the incident with a salesperson in 2020.

It took place on one of the first times Tutt, 45, decided to venture out dressed as as a woman and two months before she officially came out.

‘I bee-lined for my truck and cried for half an hour,’ Tutt told the San Francisco Chronicle. ‘I didn’t present (as) female for over a week — it crushed me.’ 

Tutt, who competed in the WWE as dreadlocked gladiator Tyler Reks, frequently shares images charting her transition.

Trans influencer Gabbi Tutt, who used to compete in WWE as Tyler Reks, shared she cried after a store clerk misgendered her The upsetting incident took place in 2020, before Tutt had officially come out and on one of the first occasions she presented as female In January that same year, she moved from from San Francisco to Austin, Texas , one of the least welcoming states for LGBTQ + people

In January 2020, she and her wife Priscilla along with their daughter Mia moved from San Francisco to Austin, Texas, one of the least welcoming states for LGBTQ+ people.

Tutt revealed that she learned to use a gun shortly after moving to the state, receiving lessons from an Army member neighbor.

And in 2021, she decided to attend a New Years Eve party ‘in full presentation’ after being invited by the same neighbor.

‘I walked in the door and got a standing ovation,’ Tutt said. 

While she acknowledged that her adoptive state has a bad reputation for trans rights, Tutt revealed that her experiences have markedly improved since the mall incident despite some online abuse.

The former wrestler also said her ability to get gender affirming procedures saved her life.

‘I would wake up every day feeling miserable, feeling like my life was incomplete,’ Tutt said. ‘And my heart breaks for every transgender human who is going through that.’ 

Tutt told how even as a child she would dress up in her mother’s clothes and gravitate towards girls toys.

Tutt’s wife Priscilla supported her transition, although the two are now in the process of separating The influencer shared how she learned to handle a gun after moving to Texas The 45-year-old was positive about her experiences in Texas, although recognized her wealth and privilege have allowed her to receive gender affirming procedures which have helped with the transition

But she buried her impulses after realizing they could get her in trouble. During puberty, she got into weightlifting and was scouted as a possible WWE star.

Tutt, performing as Reks, went on to have a career which spanned from 2008 to 2012, boasting appearances at Smackdown, Raw and Wrestlemania.

However, during the pandemic she was able to reflect on her gender identity and went on to transition.

‘I ask myself to this day, what made those feelings resurface at 36 years old,’ Tutt said. ‘And I haven’t been able to figure it out.’ 

Today, Tutt although in the process of splitting from her wife, runs a successful fitness business largely training women.

Priscilla has been supportive of Tutt’s transition and encouraged her to come out, while she remains close with Mia.

‘People will say, ‘You’re getting divorced, Gabbi,’ and yeah, the fairy-tale ending doesn’t always happen,’ Tutt said. ‘But I’m a successful businesswoman and I have a child who is well loved, and I am a trans woman.’ 

Tutt frequently shares insights into her transition, and hopes to be an example for other trans women.

Tutt frequently shares her journey as well as her fitness and lifestyle tips with her fans She told how she buried her feminine impulses as a child, only for them to bubble up again during the pandemic, prompting her transition Today the former wrestler has an active community of supporters and runs a successful fitness business Tutt is open about her journey, sharing everything from videos of her recovery from facial feminization surgery and the effects of hormone therapy and midlife puberty.

She now has 124,000 followers on Instagram, and shares her journey as well as her fitness and lifestyle tips with her fans. 

She has discussed everything from videos of her recovery from facial feminization surgery and the effects of hormone therapy and midlife puberty.

‘I understand what it feels like to walk out in public with no confidence, to fear what people might say or do or how they might look at you,’ Tutt said. ‘The solution is learning to love who you are on the inside. And we first must accept who we are.’ 

However, not all aspects of her transition have been smooth. 

During the summer, Tutt revealed that she was missing WWE more than she anticipated and expressed disappointment that she was ‘blocked’ from going backstage at Smackdown at Madison Square Garden.

A representative for WWE told NYTimes that the issue was caused by a ‘shortage of tickets,’ but an exception still wouldn’t be made to go backstage.

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A disturbing TikTok video has gone viral, showing the moment a transgender woman was verbally assaulted at a San Francisco restaurant.

Content creator Lilly Contino was eating with her dog at the Cheesecake Factory in Union Square in San Francisco while live-streaming a conversation with her followers when an unidentified woman began harassing her.

In the footage, the woman can be heard proudly referring to Ms. Contino as TERF — an acronym for trans exclusionary radical feminist, meaning a person who sees themselves as a feminist but is transphobic.

“You know I’m a TERF, right? Trans-eccentric radical feminist,” the woman can be heard saying off-screen.

When Ms. Contino asks if she’s a TERF, the woman doubles down and says, “I’m a TERF.”

She then asks Ms. Contino if she would like her to move away, to which Ms. Contino replies, “No, actually, you should tell me you’re a TERF.”

At this point, the woman mistakes Ms. Contino and says, “You’re a boy, right?”

She then begins to threaten Ms. Contino with physical violence.

“Don’t fuck with me, because honestly I hit it. I hit it hard,” she says.

The incident continues with the woman telling Ms. Contino not to “judge” her for being a TERF, telling her, “I get to be whoever I want to be and you get to be whoever you want to be.” “.

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A self-proclaimed TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) threatened me at the @cheesecake factory. I happened to be streaming at the time and captured the encounter on camera. This happened at the Union Square location in San Francisco

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She then tells Ms. Contino to “take your stupid dog, eat your damn food, and get the shit out of my life,” before saying she needs to “call you a white supremacist.”

Ms. Contino then asks to speak to the restaurant’s manager, who apologizes off-camera for the incident.

Ms. Contino shared a clip of the encounter on her TikTok platform, which has garnered 9.7 million views as of Monday morning.

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Ms Contino explained to KPIX that the harassment first started when the woman started telling jokes and then offered to show her a surgical scar on her stomach.

When she politely declined, the woman replied, “I’ll show you if I want, son.”

“And of course, as a trans person, I’m more sensitive to gender language,” Ms. Contino said.

She said that as the incident progressed she became even more shocked and said that nothing like this had ever happened to her before.

TikTok video shows transgender woman being molested at Cheesecake Factory (TikTok/@lillytino)

She was particularly shocked, she said, since she’d moved from Georgia to the liberal city of San Francisco.

“I was just stunned. I have never been physically threatened in public. I’ve never been verbally abused in public,” she said.

“Part of it was just shock and disbelief that this was happening. I live in San Francisco for a reason. I live here because it’s a liberal city, one of the most queer-friendly cities in the world.

“That it happens in such a public place and nobody helps.”

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San Francisco loves an ambitious goal. In 2003, the city set the objective to produce zero waste by 2020. In 2014, it vowed to reach zero traffic-related fatalities by 2024. And in 2015, it pledged to get to zero HIV infections and preventable deaths by 2020.

None of those things happened.

Arbitrary time limits have been abandoned (zero waste), quietly erased from the website (vision zero) or extended (HIV infections and deaths).

And so it’s hard not to see the new plan Mayor London Breed announced this week to house every transgender person experiencing homelessness by 2027 with skepticism. She announced the plan after a dramatic week, where several queer community groups came out against her now reversed decision not to march in the Pride Parade.

It’s not easy to tackle intractable, systemic problems on a tight deadline. But Breed’s timing further begged the question: Can we really end homelessness in the transgender community in five short years? Or was her promise empty politicking in the wake of a queer backlash?

All signs pointed to politicking. And on Twitter, her plan was attacked accordingly. But the more I dug into it, the more legitimate I found the proposal to be. Part of that is because the plan came from the community it’s designed to serve; it was presented by the city’s Trans Advisory Committee. The proposal includes a long-term rental assistance program, and $6.5 million spread over two years for behavioral health, nonprofit support and to acquire a building to house LGBTQ youth.

Trans people in San Francisco are 18 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population, according to Our Trans Home SF, but they’re underserved; many organizations are not well-versed in pronouns, gender-affirming care, name changes, or in managing trauma. As a result, many homeless trans people don’t engage with traditional services, falling through the cracks in an already difficult-to-navigate system. Breed’s proposed funding could allow small nonprofit organizations that hire from the community to increase their staffing and training to help clients navigate the city’s complicated housing process.

Joaquin Remora is the director of Our Trans Home SF, the city’s first housing program for trans and gender nonconforming people. In March, he helped open the city’s first navigation center specifically to serve trans and gender nonconforming people. Breed’s proposal would provide residents of both with additional rental subsidies to help them move into permanent housing, where they pay only a portion of their income toward rent.

“The goal of navigation centers and transitional housing programs is to prepare someone, so that by the time they go out and live on their own, they’re going to succeed,” Remora said. But finding homes for people ready to leave these temporary facilities has been tricky. The 150 subsidized housing proposed in the budget would be a big help.

Nonetheless, the framing of Breed’s plan — to “solve” homelessness in the trans community — irked some people. Concerns that it won’t hold up legally appear to be unfounded; trans people experience homelessness at a higher rate, justifying these efforts. But if homelessness in one group is solvable, isn’t it for everyone? And why do they get priority over homeless moms or seniors?

Shahada Hull, who is not transgender, but is homeless and trying to find housing, told me she’s concerned that the city is prioritizing one population for housing over another. “It’s not fair, because we’re all standing in line,” she said, noting that it seems, “like the city’s just focusing on just them.”

Remora said he encounters this perspective a fair amount in his work and always reminds people of the intersectionality of identities. “Trans people can be moms and elders,” he noted, adding that there have always been resources available for other populations. This is the first time, however, that a significant investment is being made to meet the needs of trans people.

The city estimates that at any given time, there are approximately 400 trans and gender nonconforming residents experiencing homelessness — few enough that the problem may be possible to tackle.

For this plan to work, it’s going to have to evolve and expand based on need — and become sustainable past the city’s 2027 goal. That means securing long-term funding to house people in perpetuity. But something as easily overlooked as paying staff well also has to be part of the solution. Many of the city’s social service organizations hire people with similar lived experiences of those they’ll be working with. But caring for one’s personal trauma, while helping a client work through theirs, can be an exhaustive task.

“Making jobs sustainable is the No. 1 most-important thing,” Remora said, referencing the city’s high turnover rate of case workers. He’s seen how staff who are well-compensated and trained have stronger, longer-lasting relationships with clients — which builds trust between providers and those in need, helping people to access the services they need to move indoors.

If approved by the Board of Supervisors, Breed’s budget proposal will provide a much-needed influx of funds to support the trans community. And while ending trans homelessness may seem ambitious, particularly in the wake of San Francisco’s struggles to hit other goals, many cities across the country have had success in eliminating homelessness among certain populations. New Orleans, Houston and Philadelphia, for example, all claim to have ended homelessness among their veteran populations by expanding services, providing rental assistance and responding quickly if someone loses their home.

There are countless examples of San Francisco politicians receiving accolades for grand plans that then quietly fizzle out. The timing of Breed’s announcement and her recent conflict with the queer community certainly made this latest effort seem like political grandstanding. But digging deeper, it’s clear there was thoughtful attention paid to tackling a deeply complicated social crisis. With a commitment to permanent investment, we may just be able to end trans homelessness by 2027.

Nuala Bishari is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist and editorial writer. Email: nuala.bishari@sfchronicle.com

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After four years overseeing the country’s first urban transgender office and advising three mayors on various concerns for the LGBTQ community of San Francisco, Clair Farley leaves to pursue other opportunities outside of the city. During the course of this month, for example, she will start advising a trans-own telemedicine provider.

38-year-old Farley didn’t rule out running for an elected office in the future during an interview with the Bay Area Reporter on Dec. 2 on her official last day with the city. A trans woman and resident of the city of Alameda, East Bay, she found that no transgender person has been elected to any state or federal legislature in California.

“I’m still open to seeing what this will be like in the future,” Farley said. “California still doesn’t have a trans elected representative. We should really be on the front lines. We’re seeing so many trans people elected across the country.”

Farley has headed the Office of Transgender Initiatives in San Francisco since 2017. Founded in June 2016 by the late Mayor Ed Lee, it hired Farley after the office’s inaugural director Theresa Sparks, a trans woman and longtime community leader, retired. Farley had worked on economic issues for the city’s LGBTQ community center.

During her tenure with the Trans Bureau, Farley has seen various city departments collect demographics on the sexual orientation and gender identity of the people they serve, campaigned for millions of dollars in city funds for numerous LGBTQ programs and at the opening the country’s first transition project helped housing trans adults. The program opened in a rented building near Chinatown last January and has since moved to a rented three-story building south of Market and is home to 14 people.

It is part of the city’s Our Trans Home Initiative, which has also provided subsidies to accommodate trans people in their apartments or houses in the city. The program is one of Farley’s proudest accomplishments as Executive Director of the Trans Office.

“The office’s vision and mission is to advance the rights of trans and LGBT people and make San Francisco a role model for the rest of the country,” Farley said. “It’s hard to do that if we can’t stay here, live here, and thrive here.”

The trans bureau has also formed an advisory group of people from the city’s trans community to make sure they are seated at the table in the town hall. Every year the office hosts a trans-advocacy week for community members to lobby various city leaders.

“It was really an honor to do this job for the city,” Farley said, adding that the departure is “really bittersweet.” But the ongoing attacks on transsexuals’ rights, especially trans teenagers, have fueled Farley’s interest in tackling tran issues on a national level.

“I look forward to stretching new muscles and continuing to grow and be inspired,” she said. “I am honored and grateful to be working with the mayor and the city to advance the efforts here on the ground.”

Serving San Francisco has been a lifetime honor!

Thank you to the Mayor of the Parish @LondonBreed and the entire SF Office of Transgender Initiatives team for the opportunity to advance trans and LGBTQ rights and services in the city and beyond.

Thanks very much! https://t.co/Vo9CV1raY7 – Clair Farley (@ClairJoyFarley) December 2, 2021

In a statement, Mayor of London called Breed Farley “a passionate advocate for San Franciscans of all backgrounds, and especially for our transgender residents. Your work has kept San Francisco at the forefront of expanding LGBTQ rights and policies. I would like to sincerely thank Clair for her commitment and guidance. She is greatly missed, but I know she will continue to be a staunch advocate for those in need. “

Gay District 8 supervisor Rafael Mandelman praised Farley as “a fantastic advocate for trans- and non-binary San Franciscans. It was a pleasure to work with her on Our Trans Home SF, the expansion of the city’s SOGI data collection, and other efforts in support of the.” LGBTQ + community. “

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The office is the responsibility of the mayor and the city administrator, who will employ a permanent manager. The office’s executive director will be Pau Crego, 34, a transgender and non-binary Spanish immigrant who was hired by Sparks as the office’s director of politics.

Most recently, he was Associate Director and Director of Policy and Programs. Crego, who joined Farley during the phone interview with the BAR, said he was interested in holding the position on a permanent basis.

“July next year will be our fifth year,” noted Crego. “I would be very honored to continue my full-time job as director and really advance the lessons I have gained in the office for so long.”

He has lived in San Francisco since 2008 after moving from Barcelona, ​​Spain to study Queer Studies at the City College of San Francisco on a student visa. He was later given a green card and then became a US citizen during the Trump administration.

“I was very proud to be a trans-immigrant who got my citizenship during the Trump era. I believe it was 2019,” said Crego.

Farley told the BAR that she “strongly recommends” hiring Crego as her successor. He was “a strong leader,” she added, who worked behind the scenes on much of the bureau’s programs and political work.

“He’s such a compassionate and strategic leader,” she said. “I know he will continue to stabilize the office while we get through COVID and make sure we come out of a community location. I am very happy that you can continue the work we started together and I think that Pau goes really well with Pau. “It.”

In the coming weeks, Crego plans to meet with various LGBTQ community leaders, city officials, and agency heads who work directly in the local transgender community. The trans office currently has two other employees, Pax Ahimsa Gethen, the communications and operations manager, and Shane Zaldivar, the training and education manager. A new community engagement manager will be brought on board early next year.

Right at the top of his agenda for 2022 will be the collaboration with the municipal housing and homeless office not only on the reopening of the LGBTQ-specific Jazzie’s Place shelter, but also on plans to upgrade the space. It has been closed since the beginning of the COVID pandemic and is not expected to reopen until next year.

As the office’s point of contact for the city’s SOGI data collection efforts, Crego is also working to improve the collection of information by city authorities, particularly the health department, which has lagged behind other departments in collecting LGBTQ demographic information. He expects to work with Mandelman’s office to set up a city-wide task force focused on SOGI data to be expanded to include that of city employees and job applicants.

“City government and large institutions are slow and difficult to change,” noted Crego. “I’ve been very encouraged by some of the changes we’ve seen over the past four years and I think that will continue.”

Farley was on medical leave in September due to several long-term chronic health issues that had worsened and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. She told the BAR the situation made her “reconsider work, life, stress” and made the decision to quit her city job in order to find a better balance for all three.

“It’s so hard to do, so I’m trying to lead by example in my departure,” Farley said. “One thing I’m really looking forward to is the new opportunities I’m exploring.”

One is advising with TransClinique, a trans owned and operated company that provides telemedicine services that are trans affirmation and provides on-demand hormone replacement therapies, Farley noted. She is also looking for other jobs in the private sector and national policy work.

“As I was mastering my own healthcare challenges, I found it difficult to find trans-affirmative care. I feel inspired to keep working to move this forward, ”she said. “It’s a national service. I’ll be on the ground floor of this organization, expanding it and helping other people get better access to health care.”

Farley added, “I’m very excited to continue what we did in San Francisco and to make sure it is accessible to other communities outside of the Bay Area.”

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After running the pioneering office of transgender initiatives in San Francisco for four years, Clair Farley announced her departure on Thursday as the first and only head of the city’s transgender department.

Farley and the office she ran both made history.

The office is the first and only city council of its kind in the U.S. and has led several key equality initiatives and programs for transgender, non-binary, and LGBTQ residents, including those focused on housing and guaranteed income, the city divided in a press release with.

Farley described her time as executive director of the office in a statement as “the honor of a lifetime” and told The Chronicle that her mission will continue as she steps down to focus on new opportunities and her health.

“It is so important that we continue to sit at the table to make sure the needs of our communities are met and to build trust with the local government so that we can continue to be a model city for the rest of the country,” she said Thursday in an interview.

Farley was first hired in November 2017 by former Mayor Ed Lee, who hired prominent transgender rights advocate to succeed retired Theresa Sparks as senior advisor on transgender initiatives.

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As director of the Transgender Initiatives Bureau, Farley is credited with increasing funding for critical transgender and LGBTQ community services ranging from housing to health care, arts and culture to violence prevention and economic development leadership.

She formed the city’s transgender advisory committee, which focuses on addressing the priorities of the local trans community. Last year her office launched Our Trans Home SF, the nation’s first residential and rental subsidy program for transgender adults. The residential program now includes a three-story apartment building with 14 residential units with a shared kitchen and common areas.

That year, Farley secured a $ 2 million grant and used it to launch the country’s first guaranteed income program for low-income transgender people, which is expected to attract up to 150 people with monthly payments of up to US $ 1,000. US dollars when it starts in early 2022.

In a press release announcing Farley’s departure, Mayor London Breed praised her work for keeping the city “at the forefront of expanding LGBTQ rights and policies,” while Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents Castro District, Farley described San Franciscans as “a fantastic advocate for transgender and non-binary people.”

Pau Crego, who served as Farley’s assistant director, will lead the office while the city searches for a permanent replacement.

Prior to running the Transgender Initiatives Bureau, Farley worked at the SF LGBT Community Center for more than a decade. Her work there included promoting economic development programs with a focus on employment, housing, small businesses and financial strengthening of the LGBTQ community.

Farley told The Chronicle that her next chapter will include reshaping national policies on transgender issues and providing advice on trans inclusion in the media and private sector. She said her personal experiences with chronic health problems “made worse by the pandemic” inspired her to campaign for safe, inclusive and affordable health care across the country.

“The pandemic has reminded us of the importance of health care and community access,” Farley said.

Breed signaled that Farley’s life’s work would continue to benefit the city.

“Clair Farley was and will continue to be a passionate advocate of the San Franciscans of all backgrounds and our transgender residents in particular,” Breed said in her statement.

Shwanika Narayan is a contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: shwanika.narayan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @shwanika Instagram: @shwanika

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S.An Francisco is synonymous with queerness and gay rights activism. The crossing of the two cemented the city’s role as a pioneer in advancing the needle for LGBTQI + people – with representation and recognition being the cornerstones of this development.

On Tuesday, San Francisco declared August the month of transgender history and helped promote transgender advocacy past, present, and future.

The country’s first transgender story month honors the 55th anniversary of the Compton Cafeteria Riots, held in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood in August 1966, which marked the beginning of transgender activism in San Francisco. In response to violent and constant harassment by the police, this incident was one of the first LGBTQ riots in United States history, preceding the more well-known Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York City.

“I am honored to join the transgender community today to declare August in San Francisco the month of transgender history,” said Mayor Breed yesterday, flanked by local, particularly queer icons such as the drag queen Sister Romana, who himself crowned “most photographed nun in the world. Honey Mahogany, a local activist and chairman of the San Francisco Democratic County’s Central Committee – making it the first black and first trans person to chair the committee – was also there to make comments.

“Our transgender community has a rich cultural history in this city and is so important to our diverse identity,” added Breed in a press release on the historic announcement. “San Francisco was and always will be a place where everyone can find refuge, refuge and safety. Today we celebrate both the pride of our city and the transgender community. “

SF’s Tenderloin neighborhood is home to the city’s Transgender District, founded in 2018 as Compton’s Transgender Cultural District. it also became the first legally recognized district in the country dedicated to the transgender, non-binary and intersex communities. The Compton’s Cafeteria riot, a riot considered the stone wall of transactivism, occurred in Tenderloin in August 1966 – the riot was a response to the violent and constant harassment of drag queens and trans people, especially trans women.

In addition to proclaiming Transgender History Month in San Francisco in August, Mayor Breed also announced that San Francisco would allocate funds from its citywide household budget to several critical trans and LGBTQI + community investments, including improved access to mental health and other medical care Services; Support of housing initiatives for young people at risk; Measures to curb violence against transgender people, especially those belonging to the BIPOC communities.

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The Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, is proposing that the city introduce the first universal basic income program for transgender people as part of their budget for the next two fiscal years. Up to 150 attendees would receive $ 1,000 per month as part of the guaranteed income pilot for up to a year.

The program would cost $ 2 million over two years and be carried out in collaboration with the office of gay treasurer and tax collector José Cisneros. The selection of a community organization to coordinate with the city’s various transgender groups in recruiting and selecting applicants for the program will be the Mayor’s Office for Housing and Community Development under the direction of Gay Director Eric. D. Shaw.

“We will build on our guaranteed income pilot by adding a new program to pay members of our transgender community,” said Breed, who announced the program on June 1 to coincide with the start of Pride Month.

It is just one of the myriad LGBTQ-oriented programs included in their Budget Balanced Proposal for the budget years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. The mayor released her budget on Tuesday June 1st at a ceremony at the newly renovated Willie “Woo Woo” Wong Playground in the city’s Chinatown.

Another new program that Breed is targeting for $ 900,000 in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, is to launch an LGBTQ senior telemental health program and expand senior digital access services. It is expected to provide services for up to 500 LGBTQ seniors while providing mental health resources for those who have become increasingly isolated, depressed, and anxious due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clair Farley, a transgender woman who is mayor and executive director of the city’s transgender initiatives office, told the Bay Area reporter that the idea for the universal basic income program came from her office’s transgender advisory board. The city hopes to start the program this October.

“We have been working over the past year to develop visions of how we can create more stability in the community, especially in the face of the aftermath of the pandemic, and how we can build a stronger safety net and foundation for the community,” Farley said. “The idea of ​​universal income was born to ensure people had access to food and shelter, as well as all basic health and mental health needs.”

Transgender people, who have been hardest hit by the COVID pandemic, will be prioritized for the program, with black and Latin American transgender women being a special priority, as well as people who may need assistance navigating benefits and financial literacy, said Farley.

“There will be a comprehensive program in partnership with the Treasurer’s Office to provide financial education and coaching,” she said.

Cisneros told the BAR his office was “proud” to be part of the pilot program.

“We work a lot with the mayor and project leaders to distribute the funds,” he said. “I believe these Basic Income Pilots are vital to learning how we can help people with financial difficulties get support and thrive.”

Applicants who are segregated from other available benefits for various reasons will also be preferred, Farley added.

“This pilot is a good opportunity to build more self-sufficiency and economic mobility if someone wants to go back to school or may not have access to other benefits due to immigration status or discrimination in the workforce,” she said.

As for the new telemedicine program for LGBTQ seniors, the city’s Department of Disability and Aging and Services will launch the call for proposals from community groups to manage. The idea came from a senior LGBT task force that convened again last year to help the city meet the needs of LGBTQ seniors during the health crisis, Farley said.

“The mayor really wanted to give our seniors a priority in recovery and consider how we can build stronger crisis support systems in the future and also make sure we fill those gaps,” she said.

According to the mayor’s office, Breed’s budget is set to respond to the city’s most pressing needs at $ 13.1 billion for FY 2021-22 and $ 12.8 billion for FY 2022-23 as they move along To recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, pandemic is advancing while maintaining long-term financial sustainability. Requesting cuts in the city departments was avoided as a projected deficit did not materialize due to the surprising strength of the economy despite the health crisis.

“San Francisco has demonstrated our values ​​and resilience over the past year, and I have no doubt that we will return even stronger from COVID-19,” said Breed. “As we move out of the pandemic, this budget will ensure our recovery is fair and that we provide solutions to key issues affecting our city. We are making significant investments to reduce homelessness, expand mental health support, and support the general public. ”Ensuring safety and addressing the social inequalities exposed by this pandemic, while making responsible choices that preserve our budget reserves we can continue to provide critical urban services and support to our vulnerable residents no matter what lies ahead.

It includes $ 1.8 million to continue the city’s Trans Home SF program, which provides rent subsidies and transitional housing for transgender people, Farley noted, as well as funding a program that supports LGBTQ people who are entering for the first time Buy your own home. The $ 2.2 million reinvested by the city police in violence prevention programs and re-entry efforts for former incarcerated black trans women will be retained in the mayor’s draft budget.

Farley said her office is still awaiting news from various city authorities about what LGBTQ-specific programs they have proposed for funding over the next two years. And she noted that the mayor’s budget proposals for arts grants, emergency housing, rent repayment assistance, family and youth programs, and small business investments will benefit the LGBTQ community as well.

“We’ll be getting details on certain line items in the next week or so,” she said.

By the end of June, the Budget and Appropriations Committee of the Board of Supervisors will hold public hearings on the budget and make recommendations to the full board. In July, managers will vote on the budget and then send it back to Breed for approval, usually by August 1st.

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“Everyone around me in my life told me that I would have a better life when I came to San Francisco,” said Aria Said, co-founder and director of Compton’s transgender cultural district. “As many transsexuals come here as there are refugees from other cities in the United States.”

Said first came to San Francisco when she was 19 years old.

“As a teenage black trans woman in San Francisco, I learned very quickly that while San Francisco was legally and socially validating myself, I went to job interviews and was laughed at. I was spat at on the street,” he said to shares.

He is said to have teamed up with activists Honey Mahogany and Janetta Johnson to form the world’s first legally recognized transgender district. Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, which spans six blocks in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, is named after the historic Compton Cafeteria Riot, the first documented riot by transgender and queer people in the United States against police harassment and abuse.

“We realized that if we didn’t do anything, the fillet would be gentrified quickly. Our history would be completely erased,” recalls Mahogany.

The founders of the Comgender Transgender Cultural District also strive to address housing and employment issues within the community and create a positive space for trans people.

“I think that’s most of the hopes. Compton’s Transgender Cultural District dreams are a safe place for queer, trans, gendered, non-binary people to come to San Francisco and find a more welcoming place,” so Johnson says.

“It’s a big part of what the transgender culture district does making sure we give them the opportunities for success and the tools they need to be successful,” added Mahogany. “Hopefully now we’re really serving to inspire people to do more.”

“I think a future for trans people in San Francisco is one of social, cultural, and economic empowerment, true empowerment, and true inclusion,” said Said.

For more information on Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, click here.

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