The San Francisco Unified School District endorses telling young K-5 students that they can use a different name and set of pronouns than they use at home, according to whistleblower documents.
High school students are taught of a “bisexual umbrella” of which they can be a part, as fluid,” “pansexual,” “omnisexual,” “hetero-, homo-, lesbi-curious,” “hetero-, homo-, lesbi-flexible,” and “queer,” as Christopher Rufo, the nation’s leading investigator of school districts and their sexual agendas, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-public-schools-subvert-parental-rights">revealed</a> through the documents.
“Bisexual” is defined as “Anyone attracted to people of more than one gender.” Then the document regarding the “bisexual umbrella” states in all caps, “IT IS NOT TIED TO THE GENDER BINARY!”
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The district teaches students that they can diverge from from &quot;vanilla sexuality&quot; and become part of the &quot;bisexual umbrella,&quot; with sexual identity options including &quot;fluid,&quot; &quot;pansexual,&quot; &quot;omnisexual,&quot; &quot;homo-curious,&quot; and &quot;hetero-flexible.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/FiMNrmMXWV">pic.twitter.com/FiMNrmMXWV</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1575525907900829696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Queer” is defined as “A non-specific identity describing anyone diverging from heterosexuality, monogamy, or vanilla sexuality.”
“One of the things to know about SFUSD’s LGBTQ Students Tights is that they have the right to be ‘out’ at school, and to not have that information that they are ‘out’—with new pronouns, with a new identity in any way — shared with those folks at home,” the district’s LGBTQ programs director, Kena Hazelwood, stated.
“It’s part of our duty of care,” she explained.
“Gender identity, sexual orientation, that’s about learning about the different people in your community,” she insisted. “You can’t opt out of that. &#8230; We have LGBTQ topics included in social studies, ELA, art, other subjects. Those are not lessons that can be opted out because that is part of how we envision a comprehensive education.
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According to district policy, parents do not have the right to opt-out of the lessons on &quot;gender identity&quot; and &quot;sexual orientation,&quot; which are incorporated into the curriculum for English, social studies, arts, and other subjects. <a href="https://t.co/S2nM1jUpwv">pic.twitter.com/S2nM1jUpwv</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1575527480999677952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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One document revealed by Rufo urges teachers to refer to parents as “caregiver 1 and caregiver 2 instead of mother and father.”
Over the last decade, the San Francisco Unified School District has has received $66.5 million from Salesforce, <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2022/09/19/sfusd-grant-salesforce">Axios</a> reported. In mid-September, Salesforce revealed it had donated $6.5 million to SFUSD.
Last week, billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who also owns TIME magazine, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/billionaire-salesforce-ceo-threatens-to-yank-company-from-conservative-states/">said</a> that if conservative states don’t buckle to his vision of what constitutes “equality and dignity,” he’d take his companies out of the states.
Speaking to Poppy Harlow of CNN on Friday, Benioff boasted of “making something happen that supports our employees,” adding, “The number one thing is we must have our employees&#8217; back.”
Then he waxed political, with an apparent attempt to denigrate conservatives: “You know and I know we are dealing with a whole series of crazy presidents, crazy governors, crazy mayors all over the world in every country in every city in every state.”
Harlow asked if Benioff would pull his company from states that had outlawed abortion or passed stricter laws against it.
“We actually just said, if you are going to discriminate against our employees, we won’t be able to set up shop there,” Benioff bragged of 2015. “And when we said that, 200 other companies the next day, the largest companies in the United States all said, ‘We agree. We have to support our LGBTQ communities as well.’”
“Look, we have to be for equality, we have to be for dignity. We have to be for the equality and dignity of every human being. And if you’re not for equality and dignity, then this is not something I can work with and we’re gonna have to exit your city or your state, just as we have in many places.”

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San Francisco Unified School District Teaches Young Kids They Can Pick Their Gender: Whistleblower Documents

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> is being sued by several <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homeless" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homeless</a> people who contend that the city has violated their constitutional rights.
The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2022/09/28/san-francisco-homelessness-lawsuit-aclu?utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> the lawsuit this week for the Coalition on Homelessness and seven homeless individuals.
“This is the accumulation of years of witnessing, documenting, and responding to fundamentally abusive human rights violations that unhoused people have had to experience at the very worst time in their lives,” Jenny Friedenbach, leader of the Coalition on Homelessness, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-sued-over-homeless-camp-sweeps-as-advocates-17471443.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We hope to accomplish a dramatic shift from a city that responds to homelessness with sweeps, with confiscation of property, with criminalizing folks for being poor to a city that is instead addressing the issue at its core through the provision of housing.”
The lawsuit claims that San Francisco acts against the Martin v. Boise case, the California Constitution and the Eighth Amendment. In <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-16/homeless-boise-ruling-case-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martin v. City of Boise</a>, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that it violates the constitution to penalize people for sleeping outside when there isn’t enough room in shelters.
The group reportedly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/san-francisco-sued-by-homeless-demanding-affordable-housing-2022-09-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that over half of the homeless population — at 57% — do not have shelters. On Wednesday, the group claimed that the city has not offered enough shelters for temporary housing.
&#8220;The City&#8217;s decades-long failure to adequately invest in affordable housing and shelter has left many thousands of its residents unhoused, forcing them to use tents and vehicles as shelter,&#8221; the lawsuit said, per Reuters.
The group also said Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed, law enforcement, and other officials took action &#8220;to criminalize homelessness through an array of brutal policing practices that violate the constitutional rights of unhoused San Franciscans.”
&#8220;The City has also embarked on a campaign to seize and destroy the property of unhoused people with the express purpose of removing visible signs of homelessness from San Francisco&#8217;s streets,” it noted.
According to one of San Francisco’s <a href="https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population" target="_blank" rel="noopener">websites</a>, the amount of people experiencing homelessness in the city was at 7,754 this year. Those who are unsheltered made up the majority of the group at 4,397. The number comes from a street count conducted on one evening in February.
San Francisco has been facing an intense homelessness issue. It has <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2022/08/19/homelessness-20000-san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gotten</a> a little better since 2019, but this year, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) said the city could have 20,000 homeless people.
The report also reportedly noted that for each person housed by the city, around four will lose housing since HSH has &#8220;not been able to keep pace with inflow of people who become newly homeless or return to homelessness throughout the year.”

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San Francisco Sued By Seven Homeless People, And Coalition On Homelessness

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/housing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rental</a> costs are continuing to rise across the United States, with some large cities posting decreases in median one-bedroom rent.
According to a <a href="https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data/">report</a> released on Tuesday by rental platform Zumper, national one-bedroom rent reached $1,503 in September — a figure that reached its ninth high for the ninth consecutive month. Rent is now $1,845 for two-bedroom apartments, indicating another all-time high. However, some metropolitan areas — such as San Jose, California; Miami, Florida; and Nashville, Tennessee — saw moderate month-over-month decreases in average one-bedroom rent.
“The rental market has been very supply constrained for the past five quarters, but there has been a significant shift back towards equilibrium in the past quarter,” Zumper CEO Anthemos Georgiades explained in a press release provided to The Daily Wire. “Occupancy rates and the pace of rent increases are now falling in many major metros, as renter demand softens and fear of recession kicks in, with many renters deciding to stay put or trade down on the most expensive options.”
Meanwhile, cities such as San Francisco, California; Boston, Massachusetts; and Anaheim, California, continued to see rising month-over-month prices for one-bedroom apartments.
The most expensive city in the nation for renters is New York City, where residents pay an average of $3,950 for a one-bedroom unit — a rate that has increased nearly 34% over the past year. The Big Apple is followed by San Francisco and Boston, where rent is $3,100 and $2,890, respectively.
According to Zumper, many metropolitan areas are contending with low availability of housing units. In Seattle, Washington, a competitive housing market is driving would-be homebuyers to search for apartments, prompting the city council to unanimously greenlight a special election that will determine whether officials should create more affordable housing.
Last week, the Federal Reserve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-the-federal-reserves-recent-rate-hike-means-for-the-economy">raised</a> the target federal funds <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/interest-rates">rate</a> 0.75% — a move which followed two identical hikes in June and July — in an attempt to relieve elevated inflationary pressures. The actions have contributed to mortgage rates surpassing 6%, according to <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US">data</a> from government-backed mortgage company Freddie Mac.
“Impacted by higher rates, house prices are softening, and home sales have decreased,” Freddie Mac Chief Economist Sam Khater said in a <a href="https://freddiemac.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/30-year-fixed-rate-mortgage-increased-quarter-percent-week?_ga=2.218209497.1115799685.1664299903-1989272781.1664299903">press release</a>. “However, the number of homes for sale remains well below normal levels.”
In the second quarter of 2022, the median sale price of a home in the United States was $440,300, according to <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS">data</a> from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, marking a 36% rise from $322,600 in the second quarter of 2020. Home prices are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/home-prices-mortgage-rates-expected-to-stay-elevated-through-next-year">expected to increase</a> another 4% in 2023 — a relative slowdown from 17.8% in 2021 and 12.8% in 2022.
The high prices have produced a slowdown in home purchases, with the National Association of Home Builders&#8217; Housing Market Index <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-enters-housing-recession">falling</a> last month to its lowest level in the past two years.
Younger American renters have been particularly impacted by the tight real estate market. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/half-of-millennials-cant-afford-to-rent-a-one-bedroom-apartment-in-californias-biggest-cities">analysis</a> from Filterbuy showed that at least half of Millennials, defined by the company as those between 24 and 39 years old, cannot afford a one-bedroom apartment in many major American cities. For the area surrounding Los Angeles, California, median wages are $36,649, while the annual wage required to affordably rent a one-bedroom apartment is $72,560.

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Rental Market Remains Brutal Nationwide, Cools In Some Large Cities

Rent Payments Rise Nationwide, Stabilize Or Fall In Some Large Cities

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Since the early months of the pandemic, many residents have <a href="https://sfstandard.com/research-data/new-analysis-san-francisco-pandemic-population-decline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left</a> San Francisco, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/californiak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a>, and businesses have <a href="https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/06/30/chevron-shrinks-san-francisco-headquarters-offers-to-relocate-employees-to-houston-n479943" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> the bulk of their presence out of the downtown area, drastically impacting San Francisco’s commercial <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/real-estate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">real estate</a>.
While many <a href="https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/09/06/san-francisco-is-facing-a-commercial-real-estate-crash-which-will-impact-city-coffers-n494779" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cities</a> saw people move out during the pandemic, the <a href="https://sfstandard.com/business/san-francisco-braces-for-epic-commercial-real-estate-crash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">timing</a> for San Francisco is important, as right now, there is over 25 million square feet of commercial real estate currently vacant.
Even with business returning to normal, the city has seen a lot of empty office space recently, but many office leases that were signed during the peak of its economic growth are going to expire over the coming few years. This is going to severely impact not only how many offices are empty — but what those offices are worth. Some landlords are looking for their property values to be lowered and some want to have their taxes reduced since their properties have decreased so much in value. Drastic reductions in commercial property values will also have downstream effects on the tax base.
San Francisco gets most of its revenue from property taxes, so this could harm the funds available to fund programs and pay city workers’ salaries. Proposition 13, a California constitutional amendment, put limits on property taxes, so that might help avoid a sudden crash in the property taxes the state gets.
A <a href="https://itep.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/20211101_PropertyTaxReport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November report</a> from the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy found that San Francisco could experience a short-term drop in commercial real estate values of up to 43%, which was the steepest forecast in the study.
Working trend shifts are contributing to the situation. Many companies have gone remote, and San Francisco disproportionately houses tech companies, which were most likely to go remote, and so they stopped needing as much office space. Yelp and Airbnb, for example, have gone almost entirely remote.
For years, San Francisco has been at times the most expensive place to live in the country. San Francisco has notoriously restrictive building codes that make it extraordinarily difficult to obtain permits for residential construction projects, so it&#8217;s not likely that these reductions in property values will translate to lower rents any time soon.
The city appears to be focusing on revitalizing the downtown. Community organizations and business groups are <a href="https://sfstandard.com/business/4-takeaways-from-the-new-plan-to-rescue-san-franciscos-downtown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressing</a> the city to do more to bring people back to the downtown area with things like art spaces and cultural events, but that may prove to be a difficult task. A recent Urban Displacement Project report ranks <a href="https://www.downtownrecovery.com/dashboards/recovery_ranking.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the recovery of San Francisco’s downtown area</a> in last place of more than 60 cities.

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The Commercial Real Estate Crash Coming To San Francisco

The San Francisco, California, Commercial Real Estate Crash

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Economy

A new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> law forgave around $50 million of San Francisco’s traffic fine debts, and is expected to forgive around $500 million debts statewide. 
The $50 million accounted for approximately 180,000 traffic tickets, according to a <a href="https://sftreasurer.org/san-francisco-financial-justice-project-announces-50-million-outstanding-debt-eliminated-tens">press release</a> from the San Francisco Treasurer’s Office. Anne Stuhldreher, director for the treasurer’s Financial Justice Project, one of the principal instigators of the legislation, asserted that local courts shouldn’t fund themselves directly from the fees they impose. 
“California should not fund our local courts by asking the courts to impose fees that they benefit from. Courts should be funded separate and apart from these fees,” said Stuhldreher. “Eliminating the debt from this unfair and unnecessary fee and lowering it is a commonsense reform and an important step forward.”
The San Francisco Treasurer’s Office <a href="https://sfgov.org/financialjustice/">established</a> the Financial Justice Project to discover and change fines and fees that adversely or disproportionately impact minority or low-income individuals.
The law — <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB199">Assembly Bill 199</a>, part of the state’s budget bill  — eliminated fees issued before July 1 and provided $10 million in backfill to the courts. It also reduces the civil assessment fee, or late fee, from $300 to $100. Those late fees will now go to California’s general fund rather than the local court.
The bill also expanded eligibility for automatic filing fee waivers to those within 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, those participating in the state’s supplemental nutrition program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and those receiving unemployment compensation.
According to one of the assembly members that introduced the bill, Phil Tang (D-San Francisco), the main point of the bill was equity. He estimated that late fees were extracting $100 million, which he <a href="https://abc7news.com/assembly-bill-199-california-late-traffic-fees-bay-area-court-remove-fines/12102102/">claimed</a> in an interview with ABC7 News disproportionately impacted low-income families.
&#8220;Unfortunately for too long, our courts have been relying on low-income individuals paying civil assessments to fund many of their operations,” said Ting. 
However, California legislators didn’t come up with the idea for the bill. 
A coalition of activist groups, the Debt Free Justice California (DFJC), pushed the California Assembly and Governor Gavin Newsom to pass the bill. DFJC members include the ACLUs of Northern and Southern California, the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, PolicyLink, and San Francisco’s Financial Justice Project.
The debt forgiveness legislation was largely patterned after a March <a href="https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Civil-Assessments-Issue-Brief_v3.pdf">report</a> authored by DFJC and the San Francisco treasurer’s Financial Justice Project claiming that civil assessments, or late fees, were a “poverty penalty” that impacted “Black and brown people” unfairly.
Yet, DFJC said that this latest debt forgiveness law didn’t go far enough. Rio Scharf, a representative of one of the coalition’s member organizations, <a href="https://ebclc.org/cadebtjustice/media/">claimed</a> in a June press release that the state was perpetuating racism and poverty by not eliminating late fees entirely.
“Governor Newsom had the opportunity to eliminate this racist and regressive fee and didn’t step up,” said Scharf. “The continuation of civil assessments will burden many more Californians and undermine the very financial relief the governor seeks to deliver through this year’s budget.”
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📺What are civil assessments? They are a hidden $300 fee charged to people who already cannot afford to pay a ticket. <a href="https://twitter.com/CAgovernor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CAgovernor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> let&#39;s fully end the civil assessment! <a href="https://t.co/EVAJ0BgaXt">pic.twitter.com/EVAJ0BgaXt</a> <a href="https://t.co/7ASgPJ2CJ7">https://t.co/7ASgPJ2CJ7</a>
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New California Law Erasing Traffic Fines Forgives $50 Million Of San Francisco Debt

New California Law Erasing Traffic Fines Forgives $50 Million of San Francisco Debt

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People who identify as &#8220;non-binary&#8221; are undergoing bizarre, taxpayer-funded surgeries that render them &#8220;smoothies,&#8221; where the genitals are completely removed, leaving the area looking like the crotch of a Ken or Barbie doll.
The surgery, known in medical circles as &#8220;nulloplasty,&#8221; is among a new wave of alternatives to more “traditional” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a>-related genital surgeries such as phalloplasty and vaginoplasty. They also include surgery to give the patient the appearance of both sex organs, as with a hermaphrodite, and some of the new operations are covered by taxpayer-funded insurance plans, The Daily Wire found.
“We understand that some patients will not be looking specifically for binary surgeries,&#8221; reads the MoZaic Care <a href="https://www.mozaiccare.net/gender-nonconforming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, a surgery center in San Francisco that specializes in genital surgeries for transgender and “nonbinary” patients. &#8220;For gender diverse, expansive, nonbinary patients; we offer individualized surgical options. Examples include penile preservation vaginoplasty, vaginal preservation with metoidioplasty and nullification.&#8221;
Recipients of the surgery refer to themselves as &#8220;smoothies,&#8221; &#8220;Ken dolls&#8221; or &#8220;nullos.&#8221;
“Nonbinary” is a popular identity under the transgender “umbrella” for individuals who reject both masculine and feminine stereotypes and social roles. Over one million adults in the U.S. identify as “nonbinary,” according to a 2021 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/nonbinary-lgbtq-adults-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCLA survey</a>. As the transgender umbrella expands to include the ever-growing list of gender identities — such as demiboy, eunuch, gendervoid, maverique, neutrois, etc. — plastic surgery centers are offering customizable surgeries that cater to them.
Nullification surgery “removes external genitalia while preserving a urethral opening and anal opening,” according to the MoZaic Care <a href="https://www.mozaiccare.net/nullification" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. While nullification is most often marketed to males, MoZaic offers it to both sexes. 
“If the patient was born with a penis, the penis will be removed in addition to both testicles and the scrotum,” reads MoZaic’s website.​ “If the patient was born with a vagina, the vagina will be removed in addition to the clitoris and labia.” Recipients of nullification surgery sometimes refer to themselves as a &#8220;nullo&#8221; or &#8220;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullo_(body_modification)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">smoothie</a>&#8221; to denote the &#8220;smoothness&#8221; of their genital area after the procedure.
“Basically for the nullification surgery, they remove the testicles, the scrotum, and the penis, and they essentially just sew the skin up into a very tight vertical line which kind of fades away,&#8221; one man who received a nullification surgery <a href="https://www.queerty.com/nullo-man-felt-masculine-better-sex-getting-penis-removed-20181229" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a>. &#8220;If the surgeon’s great, there’s no scar at the end of it, and they relocate the urethra down to kind of between your legs.”
Penile preservation vaginoplasty — offered to males — and vaginal preservation with metoidioplasty — offered to females — are custom surgeries that allow the individual to obtain the &#8220;hermaphrodite look&#8221; and have the appearance of both male and female genitalia at the same time. Penile preservation vaginoplasty, or as MoZaic calls it, a “<a href="https://www.mozaiccare.net/peritoneal-pull-through-vaginoplast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phalgina</a>,” differs from a more traditional vaginoplasty as it does not involve a penectomy (surgical removal of the penis) and uses the genital tissue from the scrotum via orchiectomy (removal of the testes) to create a pseudovagina.
More “traditional” transgender surgeries are also offered, including <a href="https://www.mozaiccare.net/hysterectomy-faqx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hysterectomies</a> and <a href="https://www.mozaiccare.net/vaginoplasty-faqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vaginoplasties</a> that are available for minors as young as 15, as long as they are emancipated or “live apart from [their] parents or guardians, and manage [their] own financial affairs.”
According to the MoZaic website, federally funded insurance plans require a minimum age of 21 to receive sterilizing genital surgeries.
 “Federally funded (have Medi-cal or Medicaid) patients, must be 21 years of age to undergo elective sterilization surgery,” the site&#8217;s pages for <a href="https://www.mozaiccare.net/vaginoplasty-faqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vaginoplasty</a> and <a href="https://www.mozaiccare.net/hysterectomy-faqx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hysterectomy</a> FAQs read. Eighteen-year-olds can obtain sterilizing genital surgeries if done through private insurance or paid for out-of-pocket.
San Francisco Health Plan, a form of Medi-Cal, and Blue Cross Covered California, another state-sponsored insurance, are a few of the accepted insurance options at MoZaic. California law prohibits insurance companies from denying medical insurance benefits for transgender-related care. In 2021, $13 million was allocated to the <a href="https://www.translatinacoalition.org/press/2021/8/3/historic-funding-of-13-million-dollars-to-the-transgender-wellness-and-equity-fund-by-governor-newsom-announced" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund</a> in the state budget that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed off on to fund these services. While prior authorization from a physician is required, transgender and “gender diverse” patients are rarely denied and many <a href="https://transequality.org/know-your-rights/medicare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocacy groups</a> assist people in appeals to any Medicare denials.
Dr. Heidi Wittenberg, the director of MoZaic, boasts about having  performed hundreds of genital surgeries. Dr. Adam Bonnington is another surgeon at MoZaic who celebrated his 100th vaginoplasty in April of this year.
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Wittenberg is also the medical director of The Gender Institute at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital (SFMH), where “Gender Expansive/Non-binary Procedures” that include nullification surgery, penile preserving vaginoplasty, and vaginal preserving metoidioplasty are also <a href="https://www.dignityhealth.org/bayarea/locations/saintfrancis/services/gender-institute/services-and-providers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a>. SFMH, through Dignity Health, accepts <a href="https://www.dignityhealth.org/bayarea/locations/saintfrancis/patients-and-visitors/for-patients/insurance-plans-accepted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">various forms</a> of state-sponsored health care plans and assists patients in linking them with federal funding to foot their genital surgery bill.
 “If you need help paying your bill, you may qualify for a government-sponsored program or Dignity Health Payment Assistance Program that may cover some or all of your balance,” according to Dignity Health’s <a href="https://www.dignityhealth.org/my-care/billing-help-and-faq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Billing Help and FAQs</a>.
Surveys report that around one in four transgender and “nonbinary” people choose “gender affirmation” surgery, according to the <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/21526-gender-affirmation-confirmation-or-sex-reassignment-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cleveland Clinic</a>. According to a 2019 <a href="https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/lgbt.2018.0175" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a>, the rate of patients using Medicare to facilitate their transition has experienced a meteoric rise.
 “Within the Medicare program, the number of beneficiaries identified as transgender through claims data in each year has increased from 2088 beneficiaries in 2010 to 10,242 beneficiaries in 2016 (a 390% increase),” the study found.
Another <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33422448/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent study</a> found that 34 of 51 (67%) states&#8217; Medicaid programs include GAHT (gender-affirming hormone therapy) and 25 of 51 (49%) include GAS (gender affirming surgeries) as covered benefits.
MoZaic Care explicitly states on their website they follow WPATH guidelines. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leading-transgender-health-association-releases-new-guidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> its updated Standards of Care 8th Edition, which now includes “Eunuchs” as a gender identity. WPATH recommends medical treatment and services for those who self-identify as a “Eunuch,” who are typically <a href="https://reduxx.info/top-trans-medical-association-collaborated-with-castration-child-abuse-fetishists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">men with castration fetishes</a> seeking nullification surgery to remove their genitals. Wittenberg is scheduled to speak at the 27th annual WPATH conference occurring September 16-20, 2022.
<a href="https://www.poststreetsurgery.com/gender-affirmation/non-binary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Post Street Surgery Center</a> and <a href="https://www.mymarinhealth.org/programs-services/surgery-procedures/surgical-specialties/gender-affirmation-surgery/nonbinary-gender-affirming-surgery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marin Health</a> are two other California-based clinics who offer “nonbinary gender affirming surgery” and accept <a href="https://www.mymarinhealth.org/patients-visitors/medical-network-patients/accepted-healthcare-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state-sponsored insurance</a>. While <a href="https://www.alignsurgical.com/non-binary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Align Surgical Associates</a> in San Francisco does not accept Medicaid, Medicare, or Medi-cal as a form of financing, private insurance covers “non-standard gender affirming surgery.” Dr. Dev Gurjala of Align Surgical thinks of himself as a “designer” of custom genital surgeries.
<a href="https://www.ohiohealth.com/health-and-wellness/lgbtq-healthcare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio Health Hospital</a> and <a href="https://www.cmreconstructiveurology.com/specialties/transgender-gender-affirmation-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Chris McClung</a> in Ohio offer nullification surgery to transgender patients and accept various forms of Medicaid as <a href="https://www.ohiohealth.com/patients-and-visitors/paying-for-your-care/accepted-insurance/central-ohio-hospitals-accepted-insurance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insurance</a>. Ohio State Medicaid policy excludes transgender health coverage and care, but multiple news outlets including The Washington Post and Bloomberg News report that state officials since 2019 have <a href="https://www.lgbtmap.org/img/maps/citations-medicaid.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not been enforcing this exclusion</a>.

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Bizarre New Genital Surgery For ‘Non-Binaries’ Gives ‘Smoothies’ Ken Doll Look

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> woman’s head was severed by a sword-wielding maniac in broad daylight Thursday as witnesses watched in horror, police said.
The horrifying attack occurred in San Carlos, a small town about halfway between San Jose and San Francisco in the state’s wealthy Silicon Valley region. San Mateo County Sheriff’s deputies found the victim dead just before noon after they were flagged down by a witness, <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/womans-head-severed-sword-san-carlos-source/2998306/?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KNTV</a> reported. Her head had been cut off, according to the report.
“Anytime someone loses their life, it’s certainly a tragedy,” San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Eamonn Allen told reporters. “As far as the shocking nature of it, I do know that the deputies that first arrived on scene were a little beset by the scene. We are providing them peer support. We are also providing support for the witnesses that were on scene as well because there were several civilian witnesses.”
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Man apparently cut off woman&#39;s head with sword in middle of street in Bay Area neighborhood, law enforcement sources say <a href="https://t.co/QeWtkjhx0H">https://t.co/QeWtkjhx0H</a>
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Witnesses said the weapon, which had not been recovered, was a samurai sword and described a sickening crime scene.
“The head was underneath the car and she was laying in the back of the car — just severed,” Chapel Thorborne, a neighbor, told <a href="https://abc7news.com/san-carlos-murder-woman-beheaded-in-front-of-kids-jose-solano-landaeta-killed/12213435/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KGO</a>. “After he cut her head off, he came walking up, him and his two friends. And they walked right by me and they arrested him.”
The suspect, who appears to have been in a relationship with the victim, fled but was arrested blocks from the scene, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. He was later identified as Jose Landaeta Solano, <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/womans-head-severed-sword-san-carlos-source/2998306/?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KNTV</a> reported.
“The suspect is known to the victim and this is believed to be an isolated incident,” the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Thorborne, who lives in the neighborhood, told the NBC affiliate they had moved into a home near the crime scene about three years ago.
“They seemed like they loved each other,” he said.
The 25-year-old victim has not been identified, but the outlet reported that she had two children, a seven-year-old and a one-year-old, and had a restraining order against Solano. The children were inside the home and did not witness the killing of their mother, authorities said.

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A San Francisco Bay area school district has asked its students’ parents to house its teachers in response to California&#8217;s affordable housing crisis across the state, according to a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/milpitas-school-district-teachers-housing/2989286/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from local media.
The report comes after seven teachers quit their jobs at the end of the academic year last June, compelling Milpitas Unified School District officials to message parents last week asking them to fill out an online form. The questionnaire asks if they &#8220;have a room for rent at your home and would like to share the housing opportunity with our . . . educators,&#8221; according to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/02/teacher-housing-california-bay-area/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
The survey also asked parents to share the number of rooms available in their residence and how much they would charge for rent.
District officials said they had received dozens of responses within a few days.
&#8220;With 53 responses to our call for Rooms for Rent for [district staff] in such a short time, this is evidence that our entire [team], which includes our teachers and classified support staff, is valued by our Milpitas community members, parents, and caregivers,&#8221; Superintendent Cheryl Jordan wrote in an email to The Post.
A <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/meetings/TempFolder/Meetings/Resolution%202023.4%20Supporting%20MUSD%20Employee%20Housing%20(1)_323170zq3mg0300u5yaagrwhs1xoer.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> unanimously approved by Milpitas school board members said during a meeting last month noted that the gap between those who can afford a home in the Bay Area and those who cannot is &#8220;widening at an alarming rate.&#8221;
The district has approximately 1,000 employees, about half of whom work as teachers, are considered &#8220;moderate-income employees&#8221; that are reportedly struggling to purchase or rent a home within a 15-mile radius of the district&#8217;s jurisdiction.
Glassdoor <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/milpitas-teacher-salary-SRCH_IL.0,8_IC1147428_KO9,16.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that an average salary for a Milipitas teacher makes around $66,000 per year.
The Economic Policy Institute <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.epi.org/publication/teacher-pay-penalty-dips-but-persists-in-2019-public-school-teachers-earn-about-20-less-in-weekly-wages-than-nonteacher-college-graduates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that between 2014 and 2019, California educators earned 15.5% less than those outside of the profession who are also college-educated, making it challenging to thrive in a California economy.
California has the 4th highest rent in the country out of 56 states and territories, according to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.rentdata.org/states/california/2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rentdata.org</a>, which states the Fair Market Rent in California is $2,274 for a 2-bedroom apartment in the Oakland-Fremont area.
The City of Milpitas, which falls under the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara county area, has &#8220;very high&#8221; rents compared to the national average, the website <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.rentdata.org/san-jose-sunnyvale-santa-clara-ca-hud-metro-fmr-area/2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>, adding the area is more expensive than 99% of other Fair Market Rent areas.
A two-bedroom apartment in the county averages out to nearly $3,000 per month.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve lost out on some employees that we tried to recruit because once they see how much it costs to live here, they determine that it&#8217;s just not possible,&#8221; Jordan told NBC News.
Rather than increasing its employee&#8217;s salaries, district officials blamed the recent resignations on economic factors such as an increase of more than 25% in interest rates that have driven up the price of building a new home.
With the price of rentals also rising, the district said it hopes to secure low-interest home loans for teachers with local agencies and gain support from developers coming to the new city to build workforce housing.
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A California doctor who reportedly makes millions performing sex changes told a conference last year no child is too young to consider for “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">gender affirming</a>” operations and said he has performed them on kids as young as 13.
The comments and <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1564965044261208067">slideshow</a> that came from Dr. Robert Mosser, the <a href="https://www.genderconfirmation.com/about-us/">founder</a> of the Gender Confirmation Center in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco">San Francisco</a>, were part of a presentation at the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference, which took place virtually in July 2021. The shocking remarks, first reported by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo, drew fresh scrutiny after former Tennessee congressional candidate Robby Starbuck tweeted about them Wednesday.
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Dr. Scott Mosser admits they have &quot;secret missions&quot; to normalize child sex change surgery at the Gender Confirmation Center in San Francisco, no minimum age &quot;at all&quot; to get sex change surgery and he has done sex change surgeries on 13 year olds. This is what pure evil looks like. <a href="https://t.co/uL5EXn3ncH">pic.twitter.com/uL5EXn3ncH</a>
&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1564965044261208067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Mosser said he’s “super committed” to gender surgery and has always been “drawn to things that are deeply impactful.” 
He went on to describe how the GCC has “secret missions,” which he admits are not secret anymore since the slideshow has been created. Dr. Mosser said at the center they try to “live with our values 30 to 40 years in the future,” which is necessary to put them “in a mindset of extreme affirmation.”
Mosser claimed that by that time, gender will be no big deal and a normal process would see children and adolescents “screened” to determine their gender. 
“I do not have a minimum age of any sort in my practice,” Mosser explained during the presentation. “There’s no chronological age that says you don’t get surgery.” 
The surgeon explained that most children he operates on are 14 or older because that&#8217;s how long it takes for insurance approvals. But he also noted that the practice has consulted with “a number of 13 year olds” and has performed “one or two” surgeries on 13 year olds as well, according to the video.
“I don’t think I’ve ever done a consult on a 12-year-old yet, but we would, if one came our way. We just haven’t had reason to,” Dr. Mosser said.
When asked the youngest age child he’d consider for surgery, the doctor replied, “There is no youngest age. At all. With parental consent, somebody could even do a consult with me at age 10, 11, or 12.”
There have been some strong reactions to Dr. Mosser’s presentation. Starbuck captioned the video saying, “This is what pure evil looks like.”
Journalist Christoper Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1564695081885782017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">pointed out</a> that Mosser charges between $8,500 and $10,000 for the procedures, meaning his practice has made up to $20 million on them. “Gender ideology is a booming business,” he wrote. 
Multiple children’s hospitals, including Boston Children’s Hospital, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-under-fire-again-for-video-claiming-young-kids-know-their-gender-seemingly-from-the-womb">come under scrutiny</a> in recent weeks for their policies on performing “gender affirming” surgeries. These hospitals have all denied that genital surgeries are available to minors, and Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital has hidden videos discussing “gender affirming care” and hysterectomies.

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‘There Is No Youngest Age At All’: California Doctor Admits To Performing ‘Affirming Surgeries’ On Transgender Children As Young As 13

California Doctor Admits To Performing 'Affirming Surgeries' On Transgender Children As Young As 13

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/uber">Uber</a> is being accused of using abortion activism to cover up the company&#8217;s alleged mistreatment of women.
A new ad campaign launched Thursday by the conservative organization Consumer&#8217;s Research hones in on <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/uber-sued-by-more-than-500-women-over-sexual-assault-claims.html">allegations that female Uber passengers</a> in multiple states have been &#8220;kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed, or otherwise attacked” by their Uber drivers.
Consumer&#8217;s Research accuses Uber of attempting to mask these allegations through its abortion activism — such as Uber&#8217;s promise to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/supreme-court-decision-roe-v-wade-6-24-2022/card/uber-lyft-others-to-support-employees-traveling-out-of-state-for-abortion-vtYQJSQ5KFZppFnOXQGF">cover travel expenses for employee out of state abortions</a> or <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/03/lyft-will-cover-legal-fees-for-drivers-sued-under-texas-abortion-law.html">the legal fees</a> of drivers sued under Texas&#8217;s abortion law (these drivers would only be held liable under the law if there was proof that the driver knew that his passenger was on her way to abort her unborn baby that had a heartbeat).
“Uber’s woke leadership is attempting to hide behind the fig leaf of funding abortion travel for employees rather than fixing serious problems such as sexual assaults on customers and subjecting pregnant workers to discrimination and unsafe working conditions,&#8221; said the organization&#8217;s executive director, Will Hild.
&#8220;The truth is that Uber’s behavior toward women has been nothing short of horrifying, and assuming that paying for abortion expenses is somehow going to make it all better is manipulative and extremely misguided,&#8221; he added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/Uber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Uber</a> pretends to care about women by helping pay for abortions, but we know the truth&#8230;
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&mdash; Will Hild (@WillHild) <a href="https://twitter.com/WillHild/status/1562771852900335616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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That ad, which will air nationally, specifically in San Francisco where Uber is headquartered, and in prominent business hubs like New York City and Washington D.C, is part of the multi-million dollar <a href="https://consumersresearch.org/consumersfirst/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://consumersresearch.org/consumersfirst/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2u24df22Ky9XsuJ5N9exJG">Consumers First Initiative</a> honing in on woke capitalism at play in corporations like <a href="https://aboutblackrock.com/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://aboutblackrock.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1imQI0bz9unR0GUB-jbWZb">BlackRock,</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWLSAdf48o" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DtDWLSAdf48o&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Sg3Ks-hmOi515Eg_kfDG-">Nike</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZe4uZR4l8" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DpEZe4uZR4l8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0711JOG9B_16nqDYs1MVId">Coca-Cola</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg89CSkoSuI" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DFg89CSkoSuI&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2R7KpOt3sWz0hrJ1nIUi5H">American Airlines</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4zTbGzWAJ0" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3De4zTbGzWAJ0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ziX5qnumZM070phi6nWm3">TicketMaster</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rkg9HD9AMw" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D8Rkg9HD9AMw&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2sf7fMnb5olSW53Rkck_aH">Major League Baseball</a>.
&#8220;Uber pretends they care about women&#8221; by &#8220;helping pay for abortions,&#8221; the ad said. &#8220;But we know the truth. Protect your customers. Stop serving woke politicians.&#8221;
Uber did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire. The company currently faces a lawsuit from hundreds of women claiming to have been assaulted by Uber drivers.
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The truth: <a href="https://twitter.com/Uber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Uber</a>’s behavior toward women has been nothing short of horrifying.
And assuming that paying for abortion expenses is somehow going to make it all better is manipulative and extremely misguided.<a href="https://t.co/wiXffchbq3">pic.twitter.com/wiXffchbq3</a>
&mdash; Will Hild (@WillHild) <a href="https://twitter.com/WillHild/status/1562772953343094784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“As early as 2014, Uber became aware that its drivers were sexually assaulting and raping female passengers; nevertheless, in the eight years since, sexual predators driving for Uber have continued to attack passengers, including the plaintiffs whose claims were alleged in today’s action,” the Slater Slater Schulman law firm said of the lawsuit in a July press release.
Following news of the lawsuit, Uber said that the company could not comment on pending litigation but promised to &#8220;keep safety at the heart of our work.&#8221;
“While the firm claims to be representing at least 550 women with cases — the law firm has only filed 12 to date,” Uber said at the time. “They have not been able to provide any critical incident details for us to identify a connection to the Uber platform.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnlyOnUber?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnlyOnUber</a> do women have to fear for their safety&#8230; 
Because <a href="https://twitter.com/Uber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Uber</a> would rather virtue signal about abortion than actually address the hundreds of reported sexual assaults that happen on their platform.<a href="https://t.co/wiXffchbq3">pic.twitter.com/wiXffchbq3</a>
&mdash; Will Hild (@WillHild) <a href="https://twitter.com/WillHild/status/1562817914327437325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The law firm told CNBC that it had filed 24 claims as of late July, reiterating that it was representing 550 clients who are accusing Uber of sexual assault, and noting that at least 150 more assault claims are being investigated.
“The cases have been and will continue to be filed in multi-party complaints, which means they are not filed all at once as they would in a class action,&#8221; the firm said.
In its <a href="https://www.uber.com/newsroom/2022-us-safety-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second safety report</a>, released about two weeks before the lawsuit, Uber said that it had received 3,824 reports of sexual assault in 2019 and 2020. These sexual assault reports reportedly ranging from “non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part” to “non-consensual sexual penetration,” or rape, Uber said.

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Uber Accused Of Using Abortion Activism To Mask ‘Horrifying’ Behavior Toward Women

Ad Campaign Accuses Uber Of Using Abortion Activism To Hide Behavior Towards Women

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Democratic Governor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> Gavin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsom</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ZavalaA/status/1561842464050200577" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vetoed</a> a bill that would have allowed alleged safe drug injection sites in a number of cities in California. 
The bill, <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB57" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB57</a>, would have allowed local governments in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland to “approve entities within their jurisdictions to establish and operate overdose prevention programs” that meet certain requirements. 
Such programs have been promoted by progressive groups who believe such centers would help cut down on drug overdoses. 
Laura Guzman, a senior director at the National Harm Reduction Coalition, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Gov-Newsom-vetoes-bill-allowing-supervised-drug-17390653.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the San Francisco Chronicle that proponents would be “enraged” if the bill was not signed by the governor. She viewed a veto as a “policy failure” to save lives.
State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat who introduced the bill, said prior to the veto that Newsom vetoing it would deliver a “negative, toxic message to the rest of the country about where progressive California is on drug use and addiction and overdoses and the war on drugs.”
Nonetheless, Newsom <a href="https://twitter.com/louismirante/status/1561843544641261569" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did</a> just that. 
In a letter to members of the Senate, he <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SB-57-veto-msg-August-22-2022.pdf?emrc=435330" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was “returning Senate Bill 57 without my signature.” 
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“I have long supported the cutting edge of harm reduction strategies. However, I am acutely concerned about the operations of safe injection sites without strong, engaged local leadership and well-documented, vetted, and thoughtful operational and sustainability plans,” the governor wrote. 
He said the unlimited amount of sites that the bill would allow “could induce a world of unintended consequences.” He added that he is telling the Secretary of Health and Human Services to bring together city and county authorities to talk about the best ways to run overdose prevention programs. When the authorities return to the Legislature with guidelines “for a truly limited pilot program,” Newsom said he “remain[s] open to this discussion.”
<div dir="ltr">“We are grateful Governor Newsom vetoed SB 57. While we endorse the goal of preventing overdose deaths, lawmakers must remember, ‘First, do no harm.’” California Family Council President Jonathan Keller said in an email press release to The Daily Wire. “State-sanctioned drug dens would lead to more death and devastation. We should love our neighbors, not surrender them to addiction. As Christians, we believe there is always hope for anyone to change.”</div>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco’s</a> injection site, Tenderloin Linkage Center, is set to shut down in December. In January, when the center opened, 48 people overdosed in San Francisco, a figure which remained around the same in the months to follow, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-passes-bill-for-more-safe-drug-use-sites-after-san-franciscos-failed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
Jacqui Berlinn’s son is addicted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fentanyl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fentanyl</a> and is living on the San Francisco streets. She co-founded Mother’s Against Drug Deaths and does not support safe injection sites. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s really frustrating to me because I feel like we are normalizing drug use with our children. They are seeing this all around them and specially with safe consumption sites it&#8217;s going to bring more addicts into the area,&#8221; Berlinn <a href="https://abc7news.com/safe-injection-sites-california-sb-57-newsom-sf-drug-site/12096838/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, per ABC7 News, adding, &#8220;They are building this community of &#8216;it&#8217;s okay to use all the time&#8217; and I&#8217;m not trying to stigmatize anybody, but the drugs that are on our streets are so deadly that it shouldn&#8217;t be okay.&#8221;

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Newsom Vetoes Bill That Would Have Allowed Drug Injection Sites In Certain Areas

Democratic Governor Of California Gavin Newsom Vetoes Bill Allowing Drug Injection Sites In Los Angeles, San Francisco, And Oakland

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With <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-police-officers-fleeing-in-unprecedented-numbers-a-win-for-defund-the-police-movement">departures</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/police-retirements-resignations-recruits.html">happening</a> against the backdrop of rising crime rates in major American cities and activists calling for defunding the police, departments across the country are now experiencing staff shortages. Now, as officers continue retiring en masse, police departments are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-suffering-officer-shortage-cant-find-recruits-people-dont-want-to-be-the-police">struggling</a> to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/philadelphia-sees-looming-police-shortage-as-officers-file-for-retirement-and-young-people-arent-signing-up">attract</a> enough new recruits, and some are even being <a href="https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_d7a5d976-0ddb-11ed-8000-4b7a72191d9c.html">forced</a> to restructure in order to respond to 911 calls.
While <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/philadelphia-police-shortage-worsening-hundreds-retiring-20220819.html">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-200-seattle-police-officers-quit-citing-anti-police-climate">Seattle</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lapd-detective-compares-city-to-the-purge-we-dont-think-we-can-keep-you-safe">Los Angeles</a>, and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-crime-statistics-staffing-resignation-retirements">Chicago</a> stand out as cities hit the hardest by this mass exodus, nearly every major American city has experienced similar shortages. If you threw a dart at a map of the United States, you’d likely land close to a city dealing with short-staffed police departments and rising crime rates.
In response, police departments across the country are paying out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fund-the-police-portland-unrest-leads-to-record-overtime-for-more-than-a-dozen-cops">more overtime</a> to make up for staffing shortages and <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-911-calls-response-time-20220215.html">restructuring</a> to keep response times up while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-police-no-longer-allowed-to-chase-criminals-over-minor-offenses">prioritizing</a> violent crime over other offenses such as drugs or theft. Cold case investigators and officers who typically work in outreach and community programs are being <a href="https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/syracuse-police-temporarily-reassign-officers-to-patrol-division-due-to-historically-low-staffing-numbers/">reassigned</a> and placed back on the streets.
High trafficked and high crime areas are, of course, prioritized, and officers are kept in those areas; however, criminals are still taking advantage of law enforcement being stretched thin. Despite their best efforts, crime is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/six-cities-pace-pass-violent-crime-2022">continuing to rise</a> in major cities across the U.S.
A catastrophic <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009578809/cops-say-low-morale-and-department-scrutiny-are-driving-them-away-from-the-job">drop in morale</a> seems to be the biggest driver of the police exodus. After the COVID pandemic began in March 2020, many state and local governments adopted policies that put criminals back on the street within days of being arrested in order for jails to <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/pandemic-inspires-new-push-shrink-jails-and-prisons">remain less crowded</a>. Police in New York City were <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/meet-the-shoplifter-with-101-arrests-and-let-go-almost-every-time/">arresting</a> the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/career-criminals-rack-up-nearly-500-arrests-since-ny-bail-reform-began/">same criminals</a> for different crimes within weeks – or sometimes even days – of each other in extremely frustrating cycles.
Then, in May of that year, almost every single major city in America was rocked by protests and riots over the death of George Floyd. Black Lives Matter activists led massive demonstrations that sparked hundreds of violent riots and gave momentum to a movement for defunding the police.
Progressive leaders in cities such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-minneapolis-plan-to-defund-the-police-collapses-city-council-members-regret-making-pledge">Minneapolis</a>, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/portland-among-u-s-cities-adding-funds-to-police-departments">Portland</a>, and <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/0b1ade8e-18cd-43a1-967f-5328ba2053dc">Los Angeles</a> initially embraced the reforms and cut police department funding. These funding cuts and the Defund the Police messaging signaled to many officers that their elected leaders no longer supported them.
This loss of hope in elected officials has produced a startling shortage in police departments across America. The <a href="https://www.policeforum.org/workforcesurveyjune2021">Police Executive Research Forum</a> conducted a study of nearly 200 police departments last year and measured the changes in hiring, resignations, and retirements. Researchers polled police departments on how those statistics changed in the year following the onset of the pandemic compared to the year before, and found that hiring across those police departments fell by a relatively modest 5%. Resignations, on the other hand, increased 18%. Retirements, though, were the biggest blow of all, jumping a staggering 45%. The study acknowledged that smaller departments may have skewed the previously noted statistic, but, even if all the departments with less than 500 officers were excluded, the retirement rate still jumped 27%.
The police shortage, paired with a rise in crime, seems to be feeding a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miv_ti5KR9U">snowball effect</a>:
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/put-the-guns-down-activists-call-for-peace-as-philadelphias-homicide-rate-continues-to-outpace-deadliest-year-on-record/">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a> hit a record number of homicides last year, and it’s on pace to break that record again this year. Additionally, the city is <a href="https://metrophiladelphia.com/cops-combat-violent-crime-as-ranks-dwindle/">down about</a> 550 officers under pre-pandemic levels, and over 800 more officers are on medical leave or restricted duty.
In <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10908921/NYPD-staffing-crisis-city-jeopardy-union-officials-say.html">New York City</a>, the crime rate has jumped nearly 40% this year, and the city’s police officers are leaving en masse. About 1,600 have left the force already this year, well over 400 more than the number that left the police department in all of last year.
In <a href="https://www.nola.com/news/article_5ffa853c-0a04-11ed-9285-6be02e4e976d.html">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>, “fewer than 1,000 officers remain after a <a href="https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_0aca501e-8b98-11ec-93fe-c73c3ae4ff61.html">net loss of one in six officers</a> since the start of last year. More than 90 have left the force this year as of early July, according to police officer groups. That’s about the same number who resigned, retired or were fired in all of 2020.” New Orleans police officials and Mayor LaToya Cantrell <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0kmZIG3fEg">admonished the media</a> for making their police recruitment more difficult and stated that their priorities are “retention, recruitment, resources.”
<a href="https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2022/05/05/chief-responds-las-cruces-police-officers-association-releases-scathing-letter/9661087002/">Las Cruces, New Mexico</a> was down to 77% of its max operating forces as of June 2021.
In <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/01/push-to-hire-retired-portland-police-officers-falls-short-only-2-of-81-express-interest.html">Portland, Oregon</a>, only two recently retired officers, among the 81 contacted by Police Chief Chuck Lovell, have expressed interest in helping fill vacancies for Portland police under the city-approved <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/09/mayor-calls-for-more-money-this-fall-to-rehire-police-officers-expand-portland-street-response-prepare-for-body-cameras.html">retire-rehire program</a>. Chief Lovell urged retired officers to consider returning in a letter, acknowledging that those who have retired since August 2020 left “at a time of great despair for the Bureau and the City of Portland.”
In <a href="https://wlos.com/news/local/asheville-police-departments-staffing-deficit-has-cost-246m-overtime-pay-since-2020-taxpayers-chief-david-zack">Asheville, North Carolina</a>, Police Chief David Zack stated, “We really saw this towards the middle and end of 2020 when we started to see the mass exodus of officers.” He continued: “It’s been pretty steady on a monthly basis where we’re about 40% down of our sworn staff.”
According to <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/court-orders-minneapolis-to-employ-a-minimum-of-731-police-officers">Minneapolis, Minnesota’s</a> city records, “MPD’s sworn ranks reached a low of 614 officers in early May, down from more than 900 in early 2020.”
In the city of <a href="https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-police-department-shortage-staffing-sfpd-chief-william-scott/12094352/">San Francisco, California</a>, police are down by about 300 officers, “meaning fewer police on the streets, longer response times for critical crimes and little or no time to interact with the public.”
In <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-police-department-officer-shortage-crime-spike/">Chicago, Illinois</a>, according to police, “There are 296 academy recruits right now – with a new class of about 85 to 90 starting June 1. They are not making up for the numbers lost quite yet.” Chairman of the Chicago Police Foundation Board of Directors Richard Simon, in defense of officers, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCPYOxnywoI">stated</a>, “These are every mother’s son and daughter that put on the uniform of our country. These aren’t bad people; these are great people. These are American heroes.”
There is a heightened need for cities to get a handle on police officer shortages before things become much worse.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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