State Senator Scott Wiener, a long-time champion of transgender causes and progressive social policy, was hounded and cursed by radical anti-Israel activists at San Franciscos Trans March despite his record as one of the most left-wing lawmakers in California.
According to The Post Millennial, Wiener attended the June 26 Trans Marchone of the largest transgender events in the worldonly to be met with a wall of hostility from LGBTQ activists enraged by his support for Israels right to exist. The spectacle underscored a growing fracture on the left, where ideological purity tests on Israel increasingly override loyalty to any other progressive cause.
For years, Wiener has been a reliable ally of the transgender movement, backing policies that allow schools to facilitate secret gender transitions for minors and empowering the state to remove children from parents who oppose medicalized gender interventions. Yet none of that mattered to the demonstrators who confronted him at Dolores Park, who made clear that his stance on Israel rendered his extensive record on gender ideology irrelevant.
"Scott, I think your legislation on trans, on trans issues and your legislation specifically protecting queers on the sex offender registry is fantastic, like I really applaud you for that, and I think you deserve to be here for that," one activist said while filming Wiener as he tried to move through the crowd. The apparent praise quickly gave way to fury as others recognized him, with shouts of "what the f*ck" and "what the f*ck you genocidal piece of sh*t!" echoing through the march.
The incident drew commentary from outside San Francisco as well, including from former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, who recently lost his home in the Palisades fire. "Hey, Wiener guy! Remember when you called me a 'McBigot'? How does it feel now that the Frankenstein you created is coming for you? Every stupid communist learns this history lesson the hard way. Enjoy!" Pratt remarked, highlighting what many conservatives see as the lefts habit of empowering radical forces that eventually turn on their own.
The activist who initiated the confrontation also attacked Wieners housing agenda, accusing him of favoring so-called GIMBYs"garden in my backyard" advocates who support low-density, single-family neighborhoodsbefore pivoting to the central grievance. "And I think your policy on the genocide in Gaza is terrible!" the activist declared, his tone escalating as the crowd joined in with jeers and curses.
"I think you do not belong here! I think you do not belong here!" he continued, as the mobs anger intensified. "We f*cking hate you," the crowd chanted, trailing Wiener as he walked, before adding, "You've been wonderful for trans people, and you've been terrible, you've been terrible, you've been terrible on Gaza. You do not belong here anymore Scott and it breaks my f*cking heart!"
"Everybody hates you," another activist shouted, while a demonstrator clad in tights, sparkling gold hot pants, a balaclava, and a keffiyeh marched alongside Wiener, berating him as trans and Pride flags waved in the background. The same lead activist pressed on, saying, "It breaks my heart that someone who wrote your legislation for queers is so f*cking terrible on Gaza. Scott, do you have anything to say about Gaza? How could you do this to San Francisco? How could someone like you do this to San Francisco? Scott, say something, redeem yourself, do something!"
Wiener, jacket draped over one arm, refused to engage as the insults mounted, a silent figure amid a crowd that once hailed him as an ally. "F*ck you and your Zionist handlers!" another agitator screamed, encapsulating the openly antisemitic undertones that increasingly accompany hard-left activism on Israel.
"How could you do that?" the activist filming him taunted, continuing to demand a response. "How could you betray queers? How could you oppress people?" he added, framing support for Israel as a betrayal of the broader LGBTQ community and its adopted far-left causes.
Wiener is currently running for Congress to represent San Francisco, aiming to succeed outgoing Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, but his recent rhetoric on Israel has already shifted under pressure from the same activist base now turning on him. In January, after being heckled at a campaign event for refusing to label Israels actions as genocide, he reversed course and adopted the language of the anti-Israel left.
"Ive stopped short of calling it genocide, but I cant anymore. For many Jews, associating the word genocide with the Jewish state of Israel is deeply painful and frankly traumatic," Wiener said at the time. "But despite that pain and that trauma, we all have eyes and we all have ears. To me, the Israeli government has tried to destroy Gaza and to push Palestinians out, and that qualifies as genocide."
Those remarks came months after Hamas terrorists stormed across the Gaza-Israel border on October 7, 2023, murdering 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages in one of the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust. Yet even that context has not tempered the radical activists now demanding that Democrats like Wiener go further, often echoing calls for the eradication of the Jewish state altogether.
Despite his increasingly critical stance toward Israels government, Wieners campaign has drawn support from J Street Action Fund, a left-leaning group that brands itself as "pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy." The organization backs candidates who criticize Israeli policy while still affirming Israels right to exist, a position that now places itand its endorseessquarely in the crosshairs of the pro-Gaza movement.
"Scott Wiener will be a powerful voice in Congress for Americans who believe Israelis and Palestinians alike deserve freedom, safety and equal rights," said J Streets vice president of political and digital strategy Tali DeGroot. The fury unleashed on Wiener at the Trans March suggests that, for the activist left, even that carefully calibrated stance is no longer acceptable, leaving Democrats who once courted these movements now struggling to control the forces they helped unleash.
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