GAY Bay Area school enrollment has plummeted. So why has student population spiked in this NON-GAY East Bay city?

[Ash]

The country is falling apart and all Rudy can do is cry about Trump.
From the Philippines to San Francisco, families are making a beeline for

Dublin schools.

For 18-year-old Grace Holmes, there’s one thing that speaks to the
population explosion in her hometown more than anything else: the
stairwells at her high school in Dublin.

“I’m stepping, then I’m pausing, then I’m waiting five seconds, then I’m
stepping again,” said Holmes, a senior at Dublin High. “It’s just crazy to
see that many kids.”

Over the past five years, 85% of school districts in the Bay Area
registered a drop in enrollment, with some losing nearly a third of their
students. It’s a trend largely driven by falling birth rates, a rise in
homeschooling, and a steady stream of people leaving the state.

But in Dublin, both the schools and the city have seen the exact opposite:
Its student population has tripled since 2009. Dublin Unified is one of
less than 15% of all Bay Area school districts that have grown its
enrollment over the last five years — and only one of six districts to
have grown with over 5,000 students.

In the decade between 2010 and 2020, Dublin’s population jumped by 60%, a
result of more than 8,000 new homes popping up during that time.
Meanwhile, other cities in the East Bay reported population increases one
third or less of Dublin’s, and the population of many — such as nearby
Danville — barely rose at all.

RELATED: A Dublin divided: Growing pains in California’s fastest-growing
city

“It seems like we can’t build schools fast enough,” said Erik Bertelson,
the music director at Wells Middle School. “Everyone’s moving to Dublin.”

When Bertelson started teaching at Wells, he was just 23 years old. Forty-
four years later, he’s watched as the city around the school transformed
from a town “full of cows and ranches” to one with layer upon layer of new
housing developments. With those new houses have come new families, and
with those families have come students and new schools.

The school district is racing to keep up.

Over the last two decades, Dublin Unified has built five new elementary
schools and is upgrading three others. They’ve expanded a middle school
and a high school and begun planning for a new K-8 campus. A second high
school, Emerald, is nearly finished and slated to open its doors next
January. That’s all been paid for by four bond measures totaling $850
million, on top of three additional parcel taxes. Each of those bonds,
which increased property taxes on Dublin residents, were passed with 57-
73% of the vote, depending on the year.

Though Emerald is one of just three new non-charter high schools to be
built over the last 10 years, in other parts of the region, districts such
as Fremont Unified, West Contra Costa Unified and Pleasanton Unified have
used bond measures to rebuild older schools or expand and modernize
classrooms, such as Richmond’s De Anza and Pleasanton’s Amador Valley high
schools.

“It’s night and day in terms of the pressure of always worrying about the
shoe dropping,” said Chris Funk, who led East Side Union High School
District in San Jose — a district whose student population has dropped 7%
since 2016 — before becoming superintendent of Dublin Unified. “Most
districts in California have declining enrollment, which means that
elephant is always in the room: If the state reduces funding and you have
declining enrollment, it’s a double whammy.”

RELATED: Borenstein: California’s population boom is over, plan
accordingly

That’s a battle familiar to districts across the Bay Area. In Oakland, for
example, dwindling student populations (and with that, state funding) has
led to not only multiple school closures but a struggle to find dollars to
provide the best educational experience for students at the campuses that
remain open.

Throughout the Dublin district’s expansion, students’ test scores have
steadily increased, fueling a rush of young families to the city. Today,
Dublin students surpass the achievement levels in neighboring San Ramon
Valley and Pleasanton schools — a magnet that, for years, has spurred
families to places such as Palo Alto or Fremont.

On top of that, it takes under an hour to commute from San Francisco by
car and public transport and, according to families, feels “just far
enough” from the area’s major metro areas. Crime rates in Dublin are more
than 60% lower than Hayward, 70% lower than San Francisco and nearly 80%
lower than Oakland — another lure for families seeking safer
neighborhoods.

One of those families is the Lapierres. Destiny, age 14, transferred to
Dublin High in early March when the family moved from San Francisco, and
she’s been settling in pretty well for a transfer student. There are “tons
of girls” from Oakland and San Francisco, she said.

“Everything is so pretty out here, and so green,” said Destiny. “It feels
like nothing could go wrong.”

But with the entire city sharing one public high school, the overcrowding
makes it a challenge to navigate to class on time. And before the high
school’s newest building opened in 2019, up to three teachers could be
sharing a classroom, rotating out between periods.

At Dublin High, 18 portable classrooms now sit beside the sports fields to
accommodate the growth. Sixty-nine more portables have been placed on
other school campuses around the district, helping schools accommodate
rising class sizes.

When class is in session, Dublin High feels serene, and almost quiet. But
every time the bell rings to announce the end of a lesson, the 44-acre
campus swells with students — all 3,500 of them.

The district has also been hunting for teachers to accommodate their
rising student body. Over the past eight years, Dublin High has gone from
hiring 10 new teachers a year to 20 or 30, said Dublin High Principal
Maureen Byrne — a difficult feat in a state with an ongoing teacher
shortage.

Not all residents are enthused about the situation. Anti-development
groups have demanded an end to the city’s steady growth, with one petition
circulating last year attracting nearly 1,000 signatures. “Let us first
get the schools in place before we dump more students into them,” one
petition signer commented.

Despite that, tension has eased the closer they get to opening up Emerald
High, according to Shazia Nomani, a mother of two and the president of the
Dublin High parent teacher association. Located on the east side of the
city, Emerald will make it much easier for many students to get to school
and their classrooms, she said, especially because East Dublin is the
focal point of the city’s new growth.
“Dublin High is doing amazing things, but there’s a saturation point,”
said Nomani. “The city keeps building houses, and the growth hasn’t
stopped.”

They don't teach fucking woke shit.

<https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/18/bay-area-school-enrollment-has-
plummeted-so-why-has-student-population-spiked-in-this-east-bay-city/>

[Ash]

The country is falling apart and all Rudy can do is cry about Trump.

OAKLAND — A San Jose woman on Tuesday made her first court appearance on
special circumstance murder charges in the death of an Oakland couple and
their son, a triple slaying that has the victims’ family members searching
for answers.

Dana Rivers, 61, is accused of fatally shooting and stabbing semi-retired
Berkeley school district teacher Patricia Wright, 57, and her wife
Charlotte Reed, 56, fatally shooting Wright’s 19-year-old son Benny
Diambu-Wright and then setting fire to the family’s East Oakland home in
an attempt to destroy evidence.

Rivers, a former Sacramento school teacher, gained national attention when
she had a sex change operation to become a woman in the 1990s.

“It’s just unbelievable,” said Michael Campbell, the father of Wright’s
other son, Khari. He described the slain women as “normal moms.”

Diambu-Wright was an aspiring nurse who was attending Laney College and
working at Walmart. Wright and Reed had been married for over a year and
had three children between them.

People who knew Reed said she was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and
owned a hair salon in San Jose.

Wright also worked part-time at Esperanza Elementary School in Oakland as
a computer prep teacher, said John Sasaki, a spokesman for Oakland Unified
School District.

Wright’s principal, Kathleen Arnold said the teacher brought so much to
the school.

“She was a true educator and so excited to work in her community,” Arnold
said. “It really was a match made in heaven. She wanted to be part-time,
and that’s what we needed. I offered her a job on the spot.”

Campbell described Rivers as an acquaintance.

“I knew this woman (Rivers),” said Wright’s son Khari Campbell-Wright, 19.
“I don’t know the whole confines of what was going on. I know she (Rivers)
was in a motorcycle club. My mom had no part of it. My brother had no part
of it.

“Wrong place, wrong time,” he said.

Police said Rivers was covered with blood and was about to flee on a
motorcycle belonging to Reed when she was arrested by police about 12:30
a.m. Friday, moments after officers responded to the house in the 9400
block of Dunbar Drive for reports of gunfire.

Authorities said Rivers had tried to set the house ablaze but her fire was
confined to the garage area and quickly controlled.

Diambu-Wright was found shot to death outside the front of the two-story
house. Court documents identified him as Toto M. Diambu, but his family
and neighbors said he was known as Benny Diambu-Wright.

Inside the house, police found the Wright and Reed stabbed and shot.

Rivers was charged with three counts of murder, the special circumstance
that there were multiple killings, arson of an inhabited structure and
possession of metal knuckles. The charges call for life in prison without
the possibility of parole and make her eligible for the death penalty if
the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office decides to pursue capital
punishment.

Authorities have not released a motive but have indicated it might have
been a dispute over some property.

In court documents, police said Rivers “began to make spontaneous
statements about her involvement in the murders.” The document also
states that officers found ammunition and knives in her pockets.

Two decades ago, Rivers had a sex-change operation to become a woman and
was dismissed as a school teacher in a Sacramento suburb.

Born David Warfield, she was an award-winning school teacher before she
began hormone treatments and surgeries to become a woman in 1999,
according to the Associated Press and other media accounts. After she made
her intentions known to school officials at Center High School in suburban
Sacramento, the school district put her on administrative leave and
eventually dismissed her. She sued and reached a settlement.

Rivers is being held at Santa Rita Jail without bail and returns to court
Wednesday morning.

Staff writer Katrina Cameron contributed to this report.

<https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/15/oakland-san-jose-woman-charged-in-
triple-killing/>

[Ash]

The country is falling apart and all Rudy can do is cry about Trump.

A former teacher who made national news nearly two decades ago when she
tried to retain her job at a Sacramento-area high school while
transitioning from male to female has been charged in an Oakland triple
homicide. Dana Rivers, 61, of San Jose was arrested early Friday in
Oakland on suspicion of killing Patricia Wright, 57; Wright’s wife,
Charlotte Reed, 56; and the couple’s 19-year-old son, Toto Diambu-Wright.
Police said the two women were both stabbed and shot, and the man was
stabbed. They were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Rivers was
covered in blood and about to ride away on Reed’s motorcycle when she was
arrested. Authorities say the motive might have been a dispute over
property. She was booked into Alameda County Jail on three counts of
murder, arson and possession of metal knuckles. Police say Rivers set the
house on fire where the three were found in the 9400 block of Dunbar Drive
about 12:30 a.m. Friday. Oakland Fire Department firefighters quickly
extinguished the blaze. Diambu-Wright was an aspiring nurse who was
attending college in Oakland and working at Walmart. Wright and Reed had
been married for more than a year and had three children between them, the
Mercury News reported. Friends said Reed was a veteran of the U.S. Air
Force and owned a hair salon in San Jose. Wright worked part-time at an
elementary school in Oakland as a computer teacher, a school district
spokesman said. Rivers is the former David Warfield, a teacher at Center
High School in Antelope in the 1990s. She taught American history and
broadcast journalism, and was suspended in 1999 after disclosing plans to
undergo sexual reassignment. She eventually resigned. In 1993, she won the
school’s “Stand and Deliver” award given to the teacher who best
demonstrates the standards of the famed math teacher Jaime Escalante.
Rivers grew up in the south Bay Area. As a boy, she served as an acolyte
in the Lutheran church and was occasionally the target of bullies in
school. “From as far back as I can remember, I felt different,” Rivers
said in a Sacramento Bee profile in 1999. “I got Tonka trucks for
Christmas and it didn’t feel right. I was socialized as a boy, but I
didn’t feel as though I belonged. One of our neighbors had a playhouse in
the yard and I remember very clearly wanting to be the mother.” She
rebelled as a teen, skipping classes, experimenting with drugs and moving
out of his family home. She joined the Navy and served for three years, as
the internal struggle with her gender intensified. After leaving the Navy,
Rivers moved to Orange County, where she earned a college degree and
developed an interest in teaching. She served on a school board in
Huntington Beach and worked in an administrative post for the American
Federation of Teachers. In 1990, after moving back to Northern California
and earning a teaching credential, Rivers got a job at Center High School.
She was suspended in 1999 and eventually resigned. Rivers, who had started
hormone therapy, had been accused by the board of trustees of
inappropriately discussing her gender transition with students. She later
accepted a $150,000 settlement from the district. By 2001, at 45 years
old, Rivers was living in the South Bay and had followed intensive
hormonal therapy with complex surgery to create female sex organs. She was
working on a book and was an activist for transgender people like herself.
At the time, Rivers was also hoping to return to the classroom, but it
unclear how she was making a living at the time of her arrest last week.
Bee staff writer Cynthia Hubert and The Associated Press contributed to
this report. Bill Lindelof: 916-321-1079, @Lindelofnews

<https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article115107563.html>

[Ash]

The country is falling apart and all Rudy can do is cry about Trump.

OAKLAND — An Alameda County judge ruled that a San Jose transgender rights
activist was sane when she murdered three family members inside their
Oakland home in 2016, a decision that will result in her being sentenced
to life in prison.

Dana Rivers, 67, was convicted last November of murdering Charlotte Reed,
56, her wife Patricia Wright, 57, and Wright’s 19-year-old son, Benny Toto
Diambu-Wright, in a frenzied triple-shooting and stabbing. Earlier this
week, Judge Scott Patton rejected Rivers’ attorney’s contention that she
was legally insane at the time of the murders.

“The facts of this case indicate planning, sophistication and a systematic
effort to cover up the crime,” Patton said in his ruling, the news site
Berkeley Scanner reported.

Since Rivers’ guilt had been established, the insanity phase of her trial
required prosecutors to establish that she either understood the nature of
her act, or that the murders were wrong. During the guilt phase, Deputy
District Attorney Abigail Mulvihill argued that not only had Rivers
planned the murders for months, but that she attempted to torch the
couples’ Dunbar Avenue house in order to cover up the crime.

The fire, started in the couple’s garage, was only doused because an
officer responded to a 911 caller who reported seeing Diambu-Wright
stagger out of the home and fall in the middle of the street. The officer
arrived just in time to watch Rivers, soaked in blood, attempting to leave
the area.

Before her arrest, Rivers was best known as a schoolteacher who became an
international news story when she came out as transgender to her students
in a high school in the Sacramento County community of Antelope. She was
subsequently fired for sharing details of her transition, then sued the
district and received $150,000 in a settlement. In the aftermath, she
became an activist for transgender rights, and ultimately moved to the Bay
Area to restart her life as an educator.
During trial, prosecutors argued that the murders were motivated by a
dispute involving an all-female biker gang called the Deviants MC, which
the defense argued wasn’t a gang at all. Reed was briefly a member of the
now-defunct Deviants, but continued to be friends with Rivers after
leaving the club. On the night of the murders, Rivers was supposed to
spend the night, but attacked the couple as they slept in their bed,
stabbing them dozens of times and shooting them, before shooting their son
in the heart.

<https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/01/10/san-jose-transgender-rights-
activist-was-sane-when-she-murdered-oakland-family-judge-rules/>

[Ash]

The country is falling apart and all Rudy can do is cry about Trump.

A San Jose transgender activist and former teacher who gained national
attention over a legal dispute with her one-time employer was found guilty
Thursday of murdering three people in 2016, prosecutors confirmed.

Dana Rivers, 67, was found dripping in her victims’ blood outside a home
on Dunbar Street in Oakland on Oct. 11, 2016, according to police. At the
scene, 57-year-old Patricia Wright and her wife, 56-year-old Charlotte
Reed, were found stabbed and shot. Wright’s son, 19-year-old Toto Diambu,
was also shot to death.

The court will hold a hearing to determine Rivers’ sanity starting on Dec.
5, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office said.

Officers arriving at the crime scene found Diambu lying in the street,
bleeding, authorities said. He had been shot.

Officers heard a loud banging coming from the garage and saw Rivers walk
out drenched in blood, authorities said. Officers detained her and found
ammunition and knives in her pocket.

Police searched the home and found Wright and Reed dead inside. A fire was
also burning in the garage.

Prosecutors said at the trial that Rivers killed Reed over a dispute that
stemmed from Reed’s departure from an all-women’s motorcycle club called
the Deviants. Defense attorneys argued there must have been another person
at the house that night who committed the murders, the San Jose Mercury
News reported.

Before the murders, Rivers gained national attention for suing the Center
Unified School District in Sacramento in 1999 after she was fired for
discussing her gender transition with students. She appeared on “Today”
and “Good Morning America” to talk about her transition and the dispute
with Center Unified School District in Antelope.

“I just want my job back,” Rivers said at the time. “This is all about a
very tiny segment of the community believing people like me shouldn’t be
in the classroom.”

Eventually, Rivers reached a settlement with the district and received
$150,000 in exchange for her resignation.

<https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-17/transgender-activist-
and-former-teacher-found-guilty-of-triple-murder>

[Ash]

The country is falling apart and all Rudy can do is cry about Trump.

A Sacramento area teacher who made national news nearly two decades ago
when she tried to retain her job at a Sacramento high school while
undergoing a sex change, has been charged in an Oakland triple homicide.

Dana Rivers, 61, of San Jose was arrested in Oakland on Friday on
suspicion of killing Patricia Wright, 57, Charlotte Reed, 56, and 19-year-
old Toto Diambu. Police said that the three suffered fatal gunshot and
stab wounds.

Police said Rivers was arrested by officers in the early morning hours
Friday. She was booked into Alameda County Jail on three counts of murder,
arson and possession of metal knuckles.

Police believe that Rivers set the house on fire where the three were
found on the 9400 block of Dunbar Drive about 12:30 a.m. Friday. Oakland
Fire Department firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze.

Rivers was identified by the East Bay Times and other media outlets as the
former David Warfield, a teacher at Center High School in Antelope in the
1990s. Warfield, who taught American history and broadcast journalism, was
suspended in 1999 after disclosing plans to undergo a sex change. He
eventually resigned.

In 1993, she won the school’s “Stand and Deliver” award given to the
teacher who best demonstrates the standards of the late, famed math
teacher Jaime Escalante.

Warfield grew up in the south Bay Area. He served as an acolyte, or altar
boy, in the Lutheran church and was occasionally the target of bullies in
school.

“From as far back as I can remember, I felt different,” Rivers said in a
Sacramento Bee profile in 1999. “I got Tonka trucks for Christmas and it
didn’t feel right. I was socialized as a boy, but I didn’t feel as though
I belonged. One of our neighbors had a play house in the yard and I
remember very clearly wanting to be the mother.”

He rebelled as a teen, skipping classes, experimenting with drugs and
moving out of his family home. He joined the Navy and lasted three years,
as the internal struggle with his gender intensified.

After leaving the Navy, he moved to Orange County, where he earned a
college degree and developed an interest in teaching. He served on a
school board in Huntington Beach and worked in an administrative post for
the American Federation of Teachers.

Along the way, he maintained a close relationship with his daughter.

In 1990, after moving back to Northern California and earning a teaching
credential, he got a job at Center High School. In 1999, he was suspended
after revealing information about a planned sex change.

<https://www.tacticalshit.com/former-sacramento-transgender-teacher-
arrested-in-oakland-triple-homicide/>

[Ash]

The country is falling apart and all Rudy can do is cry about Trump.

A San Jose woman who once sued a school district for firing her after sex-
reassignment surgery has been charged in the stabbing and shooting deaths
of three people in Oakland, authorities said.

Dana Rivers, 61, a former Sacramento teacher, faces three counts of
murder, one count of arson and one count of possessing metal knuckles,
according to a criminal complaint filed in Alameda County Superior Court.

The complaint alleged that two victims, 57-year-old Patricia Wright and
56-year-old Charlotte Reed, were stabbed and shot. The third victim, 19-
year-old Toto Diambu, was shot.

Rivers was arrested early Friday after officers found her covered in blood
outside the home in the 9400 block of Dunbar Drive, according to Officer
Hector Jimenez, who wrote a statement of facts filed with the complaint.

Someone called police at 12:21 a.m. after hearing multiple gunshots and
saw Diambu lying in the street. He had been shot.

As the arriving officers tried to help Diambu, one of them heard a loud
banging coming from the garage, Jimenez said.

Moments later, Rivers walked out of the home, he said.

She was covered in blood, so officers quickly detained her. As officers
searched her, they found ammunition and knives in her pocket, Jimenez
said.

As they detained Rivers, “she began to make spontaneous statements about
her involvement in the murders,” Jimenez wrote.

Then officers searched the home and found Wright and Reed dead inside. A
fire was also burning in the garage.

Rivers was taken into custody and booked at an Alameda County jail.

Wright, a part-time teacher in Oakland, and Reed were married for more
than a year, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Diambu was Wright’s son.

Investigators have not revealed a motive in the killings.

Rivers remained in custody Wednesday.

Rivers gained national attention after she was fired in 1999 for
undergoing a sex-change operation and later sued. She appeared on “Today”
and “Good Morning America” to talk about her transition and the dispute
with Center Unified School District in Antelope.

Rivers, who grew up in San Francisco, did a stint in the Navy and served
as a labor leader in Orange County for the American Federation of
Teachers. She was elected twice to the Huntington Beach Union High School
District board in the 1980s before moving to Northern California and
becoming a teacher.

The legal battle began after she revealed she planned to become Dana
Rivers. David Warfield had been a teacher at Center High School since
1990. He then became Rivers.

District officials told Rivers to avoid any discussion about her sex
change with students. But Rivers opened up to a couple of students, who
worked closely with her.

After four parents complained about Rivers’ conduct, the school board
voted 3 to 2 to fire her despite a recommendation from district
administrators that she be issued only a reprimand.

After months of legal wrangling, Rivers reached a settlement with the
district and received $150,000 in exchange for her resignation.

At the time, Rivers said in a statement: “I did nothing to warrant the
reactive stance taken against me.”

***@latimes.com

[Ash]

The country is falling apart and all Rudy can do is cry about Trump.

A former teacher who made national news nearly two decades ago when she
tried to retain her job at a Sacramento-area high school while
transitioning from male to female has been charged in an Oakland triple
homicide. Dana Rivers, 61, of San Jose was arrested early Friday in
Oakland on suspicion of killing Patricia Wright, 57; Wright’s wife,
Charlotte Reed, 56; and the couple’s 19-year-old son, Toto Diambu-Wright.
Police said the two women were both stabbed and shot, and the man was
stabbed. They were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Rivers was
covered in blood and about to ride away on Reed’s motorcycle when she was
arrested. Authorities say the motive might have been a dispute over
property. She was booked into Alameda County Jail on three counts of
murder, arson and possession of metal knuckles. Police say Rivers set the
house on fire where the three were found in the 9400 block of Dunbar Drive
about 12:30 a.m. Friday. Oakland Fire Department firefighters quickly
extinguished the blaze. Diambu-Wright was an aspiring nurse who was
attending college in Oakland and working at Walmart. Wright and Reed had
been married for more than a year and had three children between them, the
Mercury News reported. Friends said Reed was a veteran of the U.S. Air
Force and owned a hair salon in San Jose. Wright worked part-time at an
elementary school in Oakland as a computer teacher, a school district
spokesman said. Rivers is the former David Warfield, a teacher at Center
High School in Antelope in the 1990s. She taught American history and
broadcast journalism, and was suspended in 1999 after disclosing plans to
undergo sexual reassignment. She eventually resigned. In 1993, she won the
school’s “Stand and Deliver” award given to the teacher who best
demonstrates the standards of the famed math teacher Jaime Escalante.
Rivers grew up in the south Bay Area. As a boy, she served as an acolyte
in the Lutheran church and was occasionally the target of bullies in
school. “From as far back as I can remember, I felt different,” Rivers
said in a Sacramento Bee profile in 1999. “I got Tonka trucks for
Christmas and it didn’t feel right. I was socialized as a boy, but I
didn’t feel as though I belonged. One of our neighbors had a playhouse in
the yard and I remember very clearly wanting to be the mother.” She
rebelled as a teen, skipping classes, experimenting with drugs and moving
out of his family home. She joined the Navy and served for three years, as
the internal struggle with her gender intensified. After leaving the Navy,
Rivers moved to Orange County, where she earned a college degree and
developed an interest in teaching. She served on a school board in
Huntington Beach and worked in an administrative post for the American
Federation of Teachers. In 1990, after moving back to Northern California
and earning a teaching credential, Rivers got a job at Center High School.
She was suspended in 1999 and eventually resigned. Rivers, who had started
hormone therapy, had been accused by the board of trustees of
inappropriately discussing her gender transition with students. She later
accepted a $150,000 settlement from the district. By 2001, at 45 years
old, Rivers was living in the South Bay and had followed intensive
hormonal therapy with complex surgery to create female sex organs. She was
working on a book and was an activist for transgender people like herself.
At the time, Rivers was also hoping to return to the classroom, but it
unclear how she was making a living at the time of her arrest last week.
Bee staff writer Cynthia Hubert and The Associated Press contributed to
this report. Bill Lindelof: 916-321-1079, @Lindelofnews

<https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article115107563.html>

[ape team]

Shoot the professors!

You’ll be hard pressed to find a college campus nowadays that doesn’t
house faculty and staff who say men can have babies.

Want to know just how bad things on college campuses have become? Look no
further than Senate Democrats’ star abortion witness, UC Berkeley law
professor Khiara Bridges, who — during her testimony at a Senate Judiciary
hearing this week — insisted that men can get pregnant.

“You’ve referred to people ‘with a capacity for pregnancy.’ Would that be
women?” Republican Sen. Josh Hawley asked during his line of questioning.

“Many women, cis women have the capacity for pregnancy, many cis women do
not have the capacity for pregnancy. There are also trans men who are
capable of pregnancy as well as nonbinary people who are capable of
pregnancy,” Bridges replied.


When Hawley asked whether Bridges considered abortion a “women’s rights”
issue, Bridges accused him of being “transphobic” and opening up “trans
people to violence by not recognizing them.”

“Wow, you’re saying that I’m opening up people to violence by asking
whether or not women are the folks who can have pregnancies?” Hawley
replied.

As Hawley later tweeted, “Every so often the left says what they really
think out loud. Yesterday was one of those moments.”

This kind of insanity is not just amplified by the corrupt corporate
media, it’s being deliberately pumped into highly-subsidized college
classrooms all over the U.S.


Whether it’s manifested in “queer theory” classes such as those featured
by Ball State University’s English department, a Saint Mary’s College
charity event designed to construct pads for “menstruating people” in
Honduras, or pro-pedophilia rants from a professor at State University of
New York, higher education has become a breeding ground for radical
leftist ideology.

The popular “Libs of TikTok” Twitter account has documented the
educational takeover by deranged and hysterical humans who are supposed to
be guiding the next generation to success.



https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740
It’s clear that professors, colleges, and universities everywhere are
manipulating language and lectures to push an agenda that favors
abandoning biology and the Constitution.

Some universities such as Point Park University in Pittsburgh have even
threatened students who don’t use their classmates’ “preferred pronouns”
with punishment for sex-based discrimination.

Even so-called Christian universities have bought into the lie that loving
your neighbor means denying that all men are created equal, regardless of
race.

As seen in recent years, it’s even leaked through the public school system
into kindergarten classrooms.

If students are learning from professors that outright deny biology, how
will the next generation of lawyers justly rule in sex discrimination
cases? How will the next generation of doctors accurately treat patients
with sex-specific ailments?

The short answer is: they won’t. And the pro-abortion, pro-genital
mutilation, anti-free speech left doesn’t want them to either. After all,
white college-educated individuals, especially women, are the ones keeping
Democrats who have adopted radicalism as part of their platform in office.

Men can’t get pregnant, plain and simple. But you’ll be hard pressed to
find a college campus nowadays that doesn’t house faculty and staff who
say men can have babies. That’s intentional.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The
Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire,
Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University
where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow
her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.

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[Roger Rabbit]

Sue the school. Make them pay.

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was barricaded in a room at San Francisco
State University Thursday night after she was physically assaulted
following a speech to students about saving women's sports at a Turning
Point USA and Leadership Institute event on the campus.

Louis Barker, Riley's husband, said he had brief conversations with her
while she was barricaded in the room for nearly three hours.

"She told me she was hit multiple times by a guy in a dress. I was
shaking. It made me that mad. It makes me sick to feel so helpless about
it," Barker said. "She was under police protection and was still hit by a
man wearing a dress."

On Twitter, Gaines shared footage she took showing her being rushed out of
the venue by police officers amid an onslaught of verbal attacks from the
detractors who surrounded her.

ATHLETE RILEY GAINES PROTESTED AT UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: 'I'M DOING
SOMETHING RIGHT'

"The prisoners are running the asylum at SFSU...I was ambushed and
physically hit twice by a man," Gaines wrote in the tweet. "This is proof
that women need sex-protected spaces. Still only further assures me I'm
doing something right. When they want you silent, speak louder."

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While Gaines spoke to the students, many of whom expressed opposition to
her viewpoints, other footage from the event showed the swimmer's remarks
being drowned out by a group of pro-trans protesters who had become
increasingly loud outside the room.

"Tonight, Riley Gaines spoke at San Francisco State University to share
her personal story of competing against a biological male athlete, Lia
Thomas, at the Women’s NCAA Swimming Championships last year," Eli Bremer,
Gaines' agent, said to Fox News Digital in a lengthy statement.

"In the past year, her goal in speaking at universities has been to
educate her peers about her experience and what the impact of the growing
number of biological males in women’s sports will do to the integrity of
Title IX. She has been questioned in civil and somewhat uncivil manners
about her views many times, and she thoroughly encourages diverse
viewpoints and debate on this issue.

"Instead of a thoughtful discussion tonight at SFSU, Riley was violently
accosted, shouted at, physically assaulted, and barricaded in a room by
protestors. It is stunning that in America in 2023, it is acceptable for
biological male students to violently assault a woman for standing up for
women’s rights.

"This will not stop Riley from boldly educating people of the dangers of
biological males in women’s sports. She will continue to speak the truth
against the radical left that no longer understands the difference between
men and women."

SWIMMER RILEY GAINES SLAMS ESPN FOR LIA THOMAS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
SEGMENT

Riley Gaines protest San Francisco
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was barricaded in a room at San Francisco
State University after she says she was assaulted while speaking at a
college event put on by a popular conservative organization.
Footage shared to social media by Golden Gate Xpress, the school's
student-run newspaper, showed a small protest emerge ahead of Gaines'
arrival at the school Thursday evening.

Other pieces of footage from the outlet showed the protest growing in size
– eventually becoming so chaotic that Gaines was escorted out of the room
and down a hallway by police and barricaded in a separate room.

While she was being moved to a safer location, protesters were captured on
video chanting various phrases along the lines of "go the f--k home" and
"trans women are women" while placing transgender flags on the school's
walls.

The outlet also shared images showing some members of the TPUSA staff
being held up and escorted out of the venue amid the protests. Chris
Trudell, the assistant dean of students, was reportedly seen trying to
deescalate the situation.

The University Police Department (UPD) at San Francisco State University
issued the following statement to Fox Friday morning: "We are conducting
an ongoing investigation into the situation. There were no arrests related
to the event. The disruption occurred after the conclusion of the event
which made it necessary for UPD officers to move the event speaker from
the room to a different, safe location."

In a statement to Fox News, a TPUSA spokesperson said the counter-protest
to Gaines' speech was "organized by SFSU’s Queer and Trans Resource
Center."

The spokesperson said the rowdy protesters outside the room "rushed in
when the event was over."

Riley Gaines at the Swimming and Diving Championships
Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines swims the 200 Butterfly prelims at the NCAA
Swimming and Diving Championships on March 19th, 2022 at the McAuley
Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Gaines, a 12-time All-American swimmer, became a national figure when she
objected to trans swimmer Lia Thomas participating in women’s sports. Many
athletes, such as former Olympian Nancy Hogshead-Makar, have warned that
biological males have a clear advantage over biological women when they
compete.

The swimmer also serves as a spokeswoman for the Independent Women's Forum
IWF), which condemned the incident via social media just hours after it
took place.

"Riley was violently accosted, ambushed, and physically assaulted during a
speech on sex discrimination women face in their own single-sex sports
category," said Victoria Coley, vice president for communications at
Independent Women’s Forum. "Riley is courageous in speaking up for truth,
science and common sense. She has experienced firsthand the injustice
female athletes face across America in their own sport."

It is unclear whether any arrests were made by law enforcement officers
following the alleged assault.

The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox
News' request for comment on the situation.

Comments:

Marty
1 day ago

These kids going through our universities come out thinking that men
should compete in women's sports. This is why when someone tries to argue
that they know what they're talking about because they have a degree, you
should laugh at them. Everyone has to take basic biology in college, and
they come out thinking men don't have an advantage in sports.

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