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
SF News Piedmont's Mayor In Trouble Over Racist, Transphobic Facebook Posts Piedmont's Mayor Jeff Wieler recently took to social media to express his frustration with the Black Lives Matter movement, liberals, and trans people and is surprised that his constituents have a problem with
SF News Scenes From The Castro March Against Trump's Plans For Trans People In The Military Protesters turned out in droves in the Castro Wednesday evening to express resistance to President Trump's Twitter declaration that transgender people would no longer be able to serve in the US armed forces
SF News 'Emergency Protest' Planned In Castro Following Trump's Ban On Trans People In The Military Following this morning's tweet-announcement by the president of a ban on trans people serving in the military something that could effect over 2,000 active-duty troops an "emergency protest" has been announced in
SF News Chelsea Manning, Nancy Pelosi And Others React To Proposed Trans Military Ban President Trump's announcement via Twitter Wednesday morning that he planned to ban trans people from military service is already sending waves of anger through the LGBT community and has hopefully, finally, made Caitlyn
SF News Trans March Facing Controversy For Asking Participants Not To Speak To Or Thank Cops San Francisco's 14th Annual Trans March will take place today with Dolores Park events beginning at 3 p.m. and the actual march commencing at 6 p.m. Obviously, as with any major
SF News Video: Chelsea Manning Gives First Post-Prison Interview We have yet to see Private Chelsea Manning speak publicly full-on as Chelsea Manning, in post-transition persona with her current voice since she was charged with aiding the enemy and imprisoned for most
SF News Yelp Feature Will Tell Users If Businesses Have Gender-Neutral Bathrooms San Francisco-based ratings company Yelp is getting five stars from LGBTQ advocates today. After stepping up yesterday to participate in an amicus brief supporting trans student Gavin Grimm in his lawsuit against a
SF News Apple, Uber, Google Speak Out Against Trump's Trans Rights Rollback; Facebook, Twitter So Far Silent Some big tech companies came out in support of trans rights and in opposition to the Trump Administration's latest attack on them, the directive issued Wednesday by the Departments of Justice and Education
