California city to give transgender residents $900 a month basic income

/ April 6, 2022

By Laurel Duggan

Palm Springs, California is set to debut a program giving transgender residents $900 a month in basic income, despite resistance from the city’s transgender mayor.

The city plans to give $900 per month to any resident who says they are nonbinary or transgender, Fox News reported, as part of a $200,000 pilot program aimed improving the transgender community’s living conditions. The program will be taxpayer-funded and managed by the LGBT activist group Queer Works.

Palm Springs mayor Lisa Middleton, who is transgender, said municipal universal basic income (UBI) programs could not work at scale to deal with “over 37 million Americans living below the poverty line, the over 6 million Californians or the over 400,000 in the County of Riverside living below the poverty [line].”

Middleton, who ultimately voted for the plan, voiced concerns about widespread unemployment and other problems she believed transgender people face, but said UBI should be left to the federal, state and county governments rather than municipalities, Fox News reported.

“Transgender Americans face enormous challenges living full and authentic lives,” Middleton told Fox News. “Those challenges have increased substantially in the past few years as transgender children and their families have been targeted by extremist legislators and governors.”

Middleton told Fox they voted in favor of the initial $200,000 in funding March 24 to fund Queer Works and the advocacy-based DAP Health center, but did not commit to any future funding for UBI programs.

Middleton did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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7 thoughts on “California city to give transgender residents $900 a month basic income”

  1. When free money is given out based on the honor system, you are going to find a lot of people “identifying” as qualifying. With fifty-some recognized genders out there, there is sure to be one that suits most everyone… If not, make one up.

  3. The stupid emanating from the left coast is unbelievable… Can we somehow put up a electronic wall
    to keep it from reaching here. Next thing you know Burlington will be doing this to the transients
    delight.. California you never stop amazing me with far the stupid can go..

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