I don't know if you really believe that everybody who lives in San Francisco is all woke and rainbow wearing antiracist liberal feminists but that clearly is not so.
They pride themselves on being woke. Do you have any evidence SF employers or apartment complexes for example discriminate against trans people? And if they do, maybe the city should crack down on that instead of discriminating on the basis on gender identity themselves.
Here's a study about discrimination against trans individuals in the San Francisco area:
As you said, SF Bay
Area. Which is much bigger than the City and County of San Francisco. That is one problem with that study as it relates to your point. The other, more serious, problem is that it entirely relies on self-reporting. The numbers do not really add up.
Third problem is that it seems like a left-wing woke "study". The lead author uses words like "intersectional stigma" in her
bio. The intro also uses two cases of murdered trans women but neither case is a hate crime - one was a robbery gone wrong and the other seems to be a domestic with drugs like crack involved. Also neither case is anywhere near SF. If hate crimes against trans people were as widespread as this study claims, why were they not able to come with better examples, or some within the area of the study? '
that study said:
A high proportion of trans women experienced a transphobic hate crime,
Or at least said they have. And even if most of them experienced being the victim of a crime, how do they know the motive of the perp? Without that, you cannot establish that it is a hate crime.
Interventions that address structural factors, especially among trans women of color, can yield violence prevention benefits.
What does that even mean?
You (and I) do not actually know whether or not the UBI grants are means tested but I am certain that there are trans individuals who are high achieving.
Apparently they are (thanks Bomb!). Still does not justify a city like SF discriminating by gender identity.