Resolution of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee

WHEREAS, UCSF’s Center for AIDS Prevention has without explanation relinquished lose to $1 million in transgender-specific funding;

WHEREAS the two programs affected by this decision are the TRANS program – which provides direct mental health and supportive services, as well as a drop-in center—to extremely marginalized members of the Bay Area transgender communities, and The Transitions Project—which helps healthcare providers around the nation develop culturally competent HIV prevention interventions for transgender people, primarily young women of color;

AND WHEREAS the relinquishment of this funding has not only deprived already-marginalized transgender populations in the Bay Area of important services, but has left the transgender employees of these programs facing possible layoffs or inappropriate reassignments.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the San Francisco Democratic Party calls upon UCSF to publicly explain the seemingly inexplicable abandonment of its commitments to the Bay Area’s transgender communities; and urges UCSF to identify funding and develop programs to replace the TRANS program and The Transitions Project;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the San Francisco Democratic Party urges UCSF adequately compensate and appropriately engage the skills of the transgender employees from the TRANS program and The Transitions Project.

Submitted by Robert Haaland, Rafael Mandelman, Scott Wiener, David Campos, Susan Hall, Betty Yee, Assemblyman Mark Leno, Senator Carole Migden, Michael Goldstein, Connie O’Connor, and Laura Spanjian, and adopted at the May 23, 2007, meeting of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee