A program in San Francisco to hand out money to low-income transgender-identifying people favored Black and "Latinx" recipients and even sets race targets for recipients, new documents show.
Judicial Watch obtained more than 1,700 pages of documents from the City of San Francisco related to the Guaranteed Income for Transgender People (GIFT) program, which was announced by Mayor London Breed last year.
The pilot program provides low-income transgender residents with payments of up to $1,200 each month for up to 18 months with the goal of providing "economically marginalized transgender people with unrestricted, monthly guaranteed income as a way to combat poverty." It uses pre-paid debit cards due to participants potentially not having bank accounts. The amount someone can receive is capped at $4,000.
Program documents, including those on its public website, say it prioritizes enrollment by race as well as those who engage in "survival sex trades," those who have been in prison, and illegal immigrants.