Inequality for one and all! Might be time to claim I'm trans...

For being a marginalized people the LGBT community gets a lot of benefits and other supports that don't apply to the rest of Americans.


California city to give universal income to transgender, nonbinary residents regardless of earnings

A California city is planning to give universal basic income (UBI) to transgender and nonbinary residents regardless of their earnings level.

Transgender residents in Palm Springs, California are eligible to receive a UBI of up to $900 per month solely for identifying as transgender or nonbinary — no strings attached.

The new pilot program will have $200,000 set aside for allocation after a unanimous vote by the Palm Springs City Council last week.

Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, a Republican who served as the first openly gay member of the city council, called the program "outrageous and discriminatory."

"We're completely opposed to guaranteed or universal basic income programs, because they ultimately cause inflation and raise the cost of living on everyone — they don't work," DeMaio said in a statement.

"But at least some of them have minimum income requirements to qualify, whereas this one is no-strings-attached 'woke' virtue signaling to the LGBT community in a way that is not only offensive but discriminatory," he continued.

Twenty transgender and nonbinary Palm Springs residents will receive the free money funded by the taxpayers for 18 months, with advocacy-based health center DAP Health and LGBT advocacy group Queer Works managing the program.

A six-month design period will be the precursor of the program’s implementation, in which the group Mayors for a Guaranteed Income will be involved providing guidance.

DAP Health CEO David Brinkman claimed to reporters that the transgendered population is "one of the most marginalized populations in our city who face some of the highest levels of housing insecurity, joblessness and discrimination."

Queer Works CEO Jacob Rostowsky also claimed in a press release that transgender and nonbinary people "are highly marginalized in our society in general, especially economically," and told the Desert Sun that the city of Palm Springs would have to match any state funds.

"Our project's budget is estimated at about $1.8 million," Rostowsky said. "And so when we look at what other [programs] that have been successfully funded have done, their local cities have provided nearly a match to that funding."

Palm Springs Mayor Lisa Middleton, who is transgender, pointed to the transcript from the city council's March 24 meeting where she "expressed strong reservations in general to guaranteed income programs."

"I specifically stated that I did not believe such programs could scale up to adequately respond to the 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 said in an email, praising Brinkman for his work and expressing her "concern for the financial vulnerability of the transgender community."

"Transgender Americans suffer extremely high rates of under and unemployment. Transgender Americans face enormous challenges living full and authentic lives," the mayor said. "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 added she believes a UBI program is a "county, state and federal responsibility," not a "municipal" one.

"My vote to affirm that evening was procedural to provide $200,000 to DAP in order to help them in the application for state funding. In advance of the vote I specifically stated my belief that guaranteed income programs were not the long-term way to proceed. I did not commit to any future funding of guaranteed income programs."

Other members of the Palm Springs city council did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Well, anyone could sign up and say 'hey I'm gay', not a bad payday, as long as you don't have to physically prove it... That might turn into a pain in the ass...

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Originally posted by HRK:

a pain in the ass...

That's one way to know you qualify.

These UBI experiments never end well as it will be gamed to death until the money quickly runs out.

Is there something in the water that makes Californians so utterly stupid?

To add to my already growing negativity to these groups, now I will start to perceive them as incompetent and incapable of earning sufficient income, regardless of earnings. They are less capable than a teenager flipping burgers.

Maybe fix your title since it’s one city in CA not the entire state though it’s probably in the works.

Is Palm Springs looking to become the freak capitol of CA...which is a very high bar indeed, as thats what people will do moving there for this freebie.

In essence you're paying people to adopt a life style that prevents reproduction.

A different perspective... Given that LGBTQ often refer to straight people as breeders.

Using other peoples money, the conservatives and true Americans, to buy votes for the Commie bastards, the ones paying do not want such nonsense just to buy votes for liberal assholes.

I didn’t phrase that very eloquently you get my meaning.

I don’t want my tax dollars going for that.
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So, how does this work, you fill-out a form declaring your sexual preferences and gender, then you start getting checks?

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Originally posted by Jimbo Jones:
Is Palm Springs looking to become the freak capitol of CA...which is a very high bar indeed, as thats what people will do moving there for this freebie.

Besides Key West and a few other enclaves, Palm Springs has always had a sizable gay population. The last 20-30 years, its rebounded given the popularity of the Coachella music festival, the desert art scene familiar to Santa Fe and Marfa, and the rise of moneyed tech types from Silicon Valley and LA. The LPGA has one of their major tournaments held there, formerly the Dinah Shore tournament, its a heavily lesbian attended event, which can be as big a party atmosphere as the PGA's Phoenix Open. The week is known as the 'Lesbian Spring Break'

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Originally posted by berto:
Maybe fix your title since it’s one city in CA not the entire state though it’s probably in the works.

Yep it's in the works... Thousands of people living in the streets and Tents, and yet the favored solution is to give Transgender's employed or not, $900 a month.



Middleton added she believes a UBI program is a "county, state and federal responsibility," not a "municipal" one.

"My vote to affirm that evening was procedural to provide $200,000 to DAP in order to help them in the application for state funding. In advance of the vote I specifically stated my belief that guaranteed income programs were not the long-term way to proceed. I did not commit to any future funding of guaranteed income programs."

Let the lawsuits fly because this isn't Constitutional on 'any' level. This bill should be rolled up tight and shoved sideways up the mentally ill mayor's ass (even though 'he' might like it).

I wonder if Dr. Ivana Cutchakokov has a practice there.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Let the lawsuits fly because this isn't Constitutional on 'any' level. ....

Do you think they care?

I don’t even know what non-binary means.

But, for $900 a month, I’ll let a bureaucrat call me one.

Ii predict a surge in kilt sales