LGBTQIA+

A presentation was held to give an overview of the current state of identity documents, education and health care for transgender people in California.

Since its founding as the California Alliance for Pride and Equality in 1999, Equality California has expanded and grown to become the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organzation.

A Chico parent is appealing a 2023 decision barring schools from forcibly outing trans and gender questioning students to parents. An appeals panel heard the parent’s updated case in May. Also, Asaahdi Coleman was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the 2022 shooting of four people on a Greyhound bus in Oroville and killed one, and the popular streaming service Hulu is taking on the Sherri Papini case this summer.

Whether to close roads around Lower Bidwell Park to vehicles on certain days will be considered by the Chico City Council tomorrow. Also, June 1 officially kicks off Pride Month. Chico will join the celebration with many events, and California is having difficulty finding enough firefighters this year.

Supporters of a California trans youth ballot measure wanted to change the name assigned by the attorney general, but a judge said no.

Paradise’s urgency ordinance allowing fire survivors to legally live in RVs was set to expire in April. Now, survivors have until April 2025. Also, One person is dead after an avalanche at Palisades Tahoe Resort yesterday, and more anti-camping enforcements are set to begin for some unsheltered residents of Chico next week.

Protect Kids California said Attorney General Rob Bonta mischaracterizes their effort, which would prohibit gender-affirming care and ban trans girls from girls’ competitive sports, among other elements.

The expected rent increase for residents of a senior mobile home park in Chico won’t be as much as they initially expected, but the proposed spike has motivated some seniors to speak up. Also, the city of Chico has announced its intention to forcibly remove more unhoused people camping along the bike path, and a North State teenager who was reported missing over the weekend has been reunited with her family.

A new landmark report on wildfires asks the federal government to recognize tribal sovereignty and support cultural burning by Native Americans. Also, the city of Chico is trying to shut down a physician-led harm reduction program that can include a doctor providing clean needles to a patient, and Stonewall Alliance Center of Chico is welcoming residents to participate in a community ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos.

This week on Cultivating Place, we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant-loving and garden-growing lives in conversation with Olly Costello.