Moms for Liberty Chair Strips at Davis Board Meeting

On Sept. 18 at a Davis Joint Unified School Board meeting near Sacramento, 50-year-old Beth Bourne, chair of Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, stripped down to a bikini to protest the district’s policy allowing transgender students to use girls’ locker rooms. Bourne said students are required to undress for PE, wanted trustees to feel the vulnerability she believes girls face when classmates choose locker rooms based on gender identity, and told the board her daughter had been recommended puberty blockers and hormones at age 14. As she removed her shirt and later her pants, trustees interrupted, her microphone was cut off, and the board repeatedly called recesses and warned she would be asked to leave if she disrupted the meeting again; police were called after the second recess. After a break she was allowed to return and finished her remarks fully clothed. The school board called her actions inappropriate and said it is consulting legal counsel, and the episode was filmed and widely reported by local and national outlets, which reached out to Bourne and the board for comment.