{"id":380902,"date":"2026-06-30T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/380902\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:28:09","slug":"san-francisco-trans-march-downplays-participants-harassment-of-lgbtq-jewish-politician-scott-wiener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/380902\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Trans March downplays participants\u2019 harassment of LGBTQ Jewish politician Scott Wiener"},"content":{"rendered":"

The organizers of the San Francisco Trans March downplayed the harassment of gay Jewish congressional candidate Scott Wiener at their event last weekend, saying that \u201cmany working class LGBTQ people\u201d believe \u201che does not represent their interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

The remarks from the Trans March relayed Tuesday to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency marked the organization\u2019s first direct comment on the subject since the California state senator\u2019s treatment at the march was roundly condemned<\/a> by local and national Jewish and LGBTQ leaders. The incident, captured in a viral video of Wiener enduring taunts, reignited Pride-themed concerns<\/a> about Jewish inclusion in LGBTQ and left-wing spaces.<\/p>\n

In their statement, the march\u2019s organizers said they were \u201caware that some community members verbally confronted Scott Wiener about his policies in Dolores Park on Friday,\u201d adding, \u201cWiener is criticized by his constituents everywhere he goes in San Francisco.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

They added, \u201cHe has made many choices throughout his political career that have led many working class LGBTQ people to feel he does not represent their interests, and he hears about that everywhere he goes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The march\u2019s organizers, who did not sign their names, did not specify which \u201cchoices\u201d of Wiener\u2019s they were referring to in their statement. In the filmed confrontation at the Friday march, most of Wiener\u2019s hecklers referred to Israel and Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour policy on the genocide in Gaza is terrible,\u201d one activist, who filmed and posted the encounter, tells Wiener in the video, adding, \u201cYou do not belong here.\u201d Another yells, \u201cYou stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The confrontation caused Wiener to leave the event rather than attend a scheduled Pride Shabbat. He later told CNN<\/a> he believed he was targeted for being Jewish. In the aftermath of the video going viral, Wiener\u2019s campaign said they registered their largest single day of donations as he gears up for the November election for former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Wiener\u2019s campaign did not immediately return a JTA request for comment on the march organizers\u2019 remarks. In his time as state senator, Wiener has advocated for trans issues and helped pass legislation supporting the trans community, something the lead instigator of the heckling acknowledged in his video and posts attacking the candidate. In his own statement, Wiener noted that he had attended the Trans March every year since its inception 22 years ago, until Friday.<\/p>\n

Wiener has moved to the left on Israel during his primary campaign, concluding that the country has committed genocide in Gaza \u2014 a stance that cost him some local Jewish support and a leadership role in the statehouse\u2019s Jewish caucus. In remarks to JTA on Monday, the head of a local Jewish advocacy group that had opposed Wiener\u2019s Israel stance suggested that this didn\u2019t matter to his hecklers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were critical of Wiener\u2019s statements on Israel, but we have seen that even he is not we [sic] immune to the wrath of the DSA mob, which cannot be appeased,\u201d Tali Klima, a spokesperson for the Bay Area Jewish Coalition, told JTA in a statement. \u201cIt is not about criticism of Israel or humanitarian concerns. It is Jew hatred, pure and simple, that seeks to oust Jewish lawmakers from public life.\u201d She referred to the Democratic Socialists of America, a faction that has in recent years become stridently anti-Israel.<\/p>\n

Wiener\u2019s opponent, San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, was also at the Trans March and received a warmer reception there. Asked if Wiener\u2019s treatment at the march was antisemitic, a Chan spokesperson told JTA, \u201cIn this moment, what matters is how State Senator Scott Wiener felt and feels about the interactions. We must stand in solidarity against hate whenever someone tells us they are experiencing hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The march\u2019s organizers added, \u201cWhat is important for us as organizers of the Trans March is that we are organizing to build a world that fosters community, love, growth, and self-determination for all people. This world can only be built on a system where everyone has housing, healthcare, education, food \u2014 all the basic needs of human existence as basic human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporting the stories that define our era. When history unfolds in real-time, the Jewish world turns to JTA. Your support ensures we can document the complexities of war and the resilience of Jewish communities with integrity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tOne-time
\n\t\tMonthly\n\t<\/p>\n

\tChoose an amount to donate<\/p>\n

\n\t\t$72$180$360$500\t<\/p>\n

\tSupport Us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organizers of the San Francisco Trans March downplayed the harassment of gay Jewish congressional candidate Scott Wiener…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,1621,104,106,105,153100],"class_list":["post-380902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-scott-wiener","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-trans-march"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}