SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Mayor London Breed announced the launch of a new guaranteed income program for San Francisco’s trans community. The Guaranteed Income for Trans People program will provide low-income transgender San Franciscans with $1,200 each month, for up to 18 months, to help address financial insecurity within trans communities, Breed revealed Wednesday.
The pilot program is the first guaranteed income initiative to focus solely on trans people, and will provide regular, unconditional cash transfers to individuals or households who qualify, according to the Mayor’s Office. This differs from other social safety net practices by providing a steady, predictable stream of cash to recipients to spend as they see fit without limitations.
The GIFT program will provide eligible trans individuals with temporary income and a range of wrap-around direct services, such as gender affirming medical and mental health care, as well as financial coaching, according to the Mayor’s Office.
The city will accept applications from November 15 through December 15.
Glad trans people are getting services. Worried that this will be a slam dunk scapegoat for neolib fascists. One of the advantages of creating universal services is you get to normalize it as a whole social benefit and expectation rather than a targeted exception, which is how this is, intrinsically, going to be described.
Neato! Can't wait for the shitstains on Fox and Newsmax to turn this into a story justifying a fucking pogrom though :yes-honey-left:
Holy shit that sounds good. Someone please tell me what cursed means testing fine print there is.
Very cool. However because we live in hellworld this will just be bait for more chud murders of teans people I love living
Someone correct me if my take is bad, but while this would be good in theory, I think making it exclusive for trans people is a cynical poison pill to get the CHUDs upset. If this was to be universal, then while the CHUDs will still seethe, they won't have any "gotcha" to fearmonger doing more hate crimes over.
Yes, California is by far one of the least CHUDDy states and if they are trying to address poverty, more power to them and thank God that there is one place within the great satan that is actually somewhat redeemable, but specifying trans people is just CHUD bait to get people to oppose this or justify transphobia.
