SF Politics Justice Jackson Chides Fellow Supreme Court Justices for Having 'Misunderstood the Assignment' In Trans Passport Case The Supreme Court's conservative majority issued an emergency order Thursday allowing the Trump administration to stop issuing passports for trans people with their stated gender identity on them, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has again made her disgusted feelings known in a dissent.
SF News Trans Santa Rosa Junior College Volleyball Player at the Center of Protests, Title IX Complaint After three former women’s volleyball players filed Title IX complaints against Santa Rosa Junior College last month, the community rallied in support of an unnamed transgender player ahead of a game Wednesday amid ongoing anti-trans protests.
Arts & Entertainment Transgender History Month Kicks Off With Flag-Raising Ceremony at SF’s City Hall, Events All Month Events are planned throughout August celebrating Transgender History Month, which opened with a flag-raising ceremony at City Hall last week. Mayor Lurie presided, with guest speakers honoring the trans community.
SF News Saturday Links: Nurses, Parents Protest Kaiser’s Pause on Trans Youth Surgical Care The Safeway strike deadline has been extended; ICE detained all the adults at SF immigration court without children on Friday; and Kaiser staff rallied in SF on Friday over the company's recent pause on gender-affirming care for youth.
SF News Video: Mayor Lurie Booed Out of Dolores Park as SF Trans March Kicks Off Pride Weekend SF’s 2025 Pride Weekend opened Friday with more than 10,000 people attending the annual Trans March from Dolores Park to the Tenderloin District. Prior to the march, Mayor Daniel Lurie was loudly booed, shouted down, and chased away from Dolores Park by attendees.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Film About Supreme Court Case Expected to See That Exact Supreme Court Decision Arrive During Frameline Chase Strangio is the first transgender attorney to argue a case before the US Supreme Court. Strangio’s story is told in a documentary at next week’s Frameline film festival, and the court’s decision is also expected to come down during Frameline.
SF News Trump Administration Goes After Fresno-Area Track and Field Competition Over Trans Athlete Heading into this weekend’s State Track and Field Championships, the California Interscholastic Federation made a rule change to appease the Trump administration’s furor over a trans athlete being allowed to participate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trans Community Activists Unfurl Huge Trans Pride Flag at Yosemite A just-announced Emmylou Harris show tips us off to some names likely to play this year’s bluegrass festival; there are gigantic lines to get into the new SF Nintendo store; and activists hung a huge trans pride flag at Yosemite.
SF News Second SF Spa in Two Weeks Has Transgender Patron Controversy, But Quickly Changes Its Policy Japantown’s Korean spa Imperial Day Spa is the latest bathhouse facility with an uproar over where transgender patrons fall in its gender policy, though right before a planned Monday protest, the spa announced it would just go with customers’ chosen gender identity.
SF News Archimedes Banya Gets Social Media Uproar After Banning Trans Women From ‘Women’s Day’ Bathhouse and naked yoga hotspot Archimedes Banya recently announced that trans women would no longer be admitted to their monthly women-only “Women’s Day,” and after a furor, they’re now declaring two separate women’s nights in hopes of appeasing both sides.
SF News Rally In Front of Compton's Cafeteria Site on Saturday Empowers Trans Community, Honors Victims During a weekend full of protests, the trans community came out in full force to the historic Compton’s Tenderloin Cultural District in a show of resistance and unity against ongoing attacks by the current administration.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Giant Pillow Fight Is Back On The giant pillow fight is back at Embarcadero tonight; the man suspected of murdering Too Short’s brother turns himself in; and some experts think Kamala Harris might be seriously considering running for California governor.
SF Politics Bay Area Trans Community Braces for Civil Rights Onslaught After Trump Remarks ‘There are Two Genders, Male and Female’ Donald Trump’s inaugural speech seemed to be an opening salvo of war against the trans and non-binary communities, who are gearing up for legal attacks on their passports and driver's licenses, and the potential for widespread discrimination.
SF News First Transgender Attorney to Argue Before Supreme Court Will Argue Trans Healthcare Case Wednesday ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, a trans man, will become the first trans attorney to argue a case before the Supreme Court this week as he takes the legal stage for oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti.
SF News Elon Musk’s Trans Daughter Gives First Public Interview, Says Musk Is ‘In a Ketamine-Fueled Haze’ Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk’s 20-year-old trans daughter, gave her first public interview following Musk’s attacks on her in a recent interview, and also took to social media to say that Musk is (zing!) “in a ketamine-fueled haze.”
SF News Report: Trans People Seven Times More Likely Than Cisgender People to Experience Violence In California An annual report detailing how many Californias were the victims of violence over the past year finds a slight dip in reported violence among most populations, but a sharp increase in reported violence against transgender people.
Arts & Entertainment Welp, Time to Add Carlos Santana to the Anti-Trans Celebrity List After Bizarre Onstage Rant Get ready for guitarist Carlos Santana to be the latest right-wing hero, as video just surfaced of him launching into a completely unprovoked transphobic rant at a late July Santana show in Atlantic City.
Arts & Entertainment Trans Woman Crowned Miss San Francisco For First Time Ever, and Yes She Is Eligible to Be Miss America 25-year-old Monroe Lace has been crowned the first trans Miss San Francisco in the pageant's 99-year history, and she will now compete for the title of Miss California, and possibly even Miss America.
Arts & Entertainment Transgender District Celebrates Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Anniversary With ’Riot Party’ Part party, part riot, part gala, Sunday night’s second annual Riot Party helped close out Transgender History Month, and commemorated the 56th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, an early turning point in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.
SF Politics Berkeley Law Professor Expertly Sautées Senator Josh Hawley In Terse Exchange On Trans People Senator Josh Hawley thought he had a gotcha question for Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges, but he ended up getting got, as her rhetorical savvy left him speechless and embarrassed.
SF News Tamalpais School District Hit With Title IX Violations Over Harassment of Trans Student A five-year-old case of bullying at an unnamed high school in the Tamalpais Union High School District brings a federal penalty, and the district is forced to take steps to remediate a pattern of alleged inaction.
SF News Nation's First Openly Trans Lutheran Bishop, SF’s Rev. Megan Rohrer, Resigns Amid Political Furor in Lutheran Church Accusations of verbal harassment, and countercharges of racism, brought some local Lutheran church drama to a boil, and SF’s historic first trans Lutheran bishop has resigned their position.
SF News Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Man Denied Surgery by Catholic Hospital The Supreme Court upheld the claim of a trans man who was once a legislative aide to Assemblymember Phil Ting that he was unfairly denied surgery for being transgender.
SF News SF Pastor Elected Nation’s First Openly Trans Lutheran Bishop The Outer Sunset’s Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church pastor Rev. Megan Rohrer just became the first ever trans person elected bishop to a major U.S. Christian denomination.
SF News Attorney General Jeff Sessions Officially Rescinds Workplace Protections For Transgender People On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo rescinding workplace protections for transgender people. BuzzFeed procured Sessions' memo reversing the Obama Administration policy, which reads, in part: "Title VII’s prohibition on
