Political Notebook: LGBTQ leaders raise concern with Lurie’s bouncing of SF trans commissioner

San Francisco Mayor DANIEL LURIE’s decision to bounce a transgender member from a prominent city commission is raising concern among LGBTQ leaders. The move comes at a time when the trans community, in particular, is under attack by the Trump administration.   It also comes as Lurie continues to face questions about how supportive he is of the trans community. Since becoming mayor earlier this year, Lurie has been criticized for budgetary decisions that defunded trans programs and was booed out of the annual Trans March event over the city’s Pride weekend in late June.   In August, during Transgender History Month, Lurie had named social studies teacher MONROE LACE to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. She had made history in 2023 as the first transgender woman to be crowned Miss S