The nonprofit Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court this week “on behalf of San Francisco taxpayers” Michael Phillips, Paul Wildes and Reed Sandberg. It names Mayor London Breed, Treasurer José Cisneros, City Administrator Carmen Chu and the executive director of the city’s Office of Transgender Initiatives as defendants in the lawsuit, which argues that the city’s GIFT program violates the California Constitution’s equal protection clause.
GIFT, San Francisco’s Guaranteed Income for Trans People Program, provides 55 low-income transgender people with $1,200 a month for up to 18 months from January 2023 to June 2024. To qualify for the assistance, recipients cannot make more than $600 a month.
