The Sacramento Bee reports:
UC Davis published a statement Tuesday about “offensive comments” made by employee Beth Bourne while she was on a family vacation in Hawaii.
Bourne, the local chapter president for parents rights group Moms for Liberty, posted a video of herself confronting a group of drag queens who were filming a video at the hotel Bourne was staying in, the Alohilani Resort in Waikiki, on Sunday.
“We reject all manifestations of discrimination, including those based on gender and gender expression,” the university’s statement said. The video shows Bourne verbally accosting the people dressed in drag, including drag queen Marina Del Rey.
Newsweek reports:
In the video, Bourne took aim at the drag queens as she accused the hotel of failing to provide a safe environment for her son.
“I’m sorry, but this is—I paid to be a customer at a hotel where I thought you believed that women were real. That because you put on makeup, because you’re wearing high heels, because you have a Barbie outfit on, that you don’t think this is degrading? This is misogyny,” Bourne said addressing the drag queens.
She added, addressing a hotel representative: “If you give me back my money right now, I will leave the hotel, but I’m not going to have my children come down from the 30th floor and see what’s happening here.” According to Bourne’s X bio, she claims without evidence that “1/22 kids is trans” at UC Davis, adding that her views are “mine, not my employer.”
Yahoo News reports:
“This type of behavior is unacceptable,” Hawaii Democratic Governor Josh Green said in a statement Monday. “It is not aloha and we will not tolerate it from anyone.”
As the videos continued to garner views, social media users began tagging UC Davis, Bourne’s employer, demanding she be fired. Bourne works at the university’s Institute for Transportation Studies.
“I’m used to my colleagues thinking I’m a terrible person,” Bourne told The Bee in an April story about Bourne and her estranged trans child. The university said that Bourne’s comments “are protected by the First Amendment,” but that the school condemns them nonetheless.
Videos of the incident together have nearly ten million views at this writing. I encourage you to watch both of activist Tizzy Ent’s clips in full.
Moms for Liberty chair & UCDavis employee Beth Bourne decides to harass drag queens at a Honolulu resort. I’m sure she will play the victims after the backlash begins. pic.twitter.com/kne5Put4Pf
— TizzyEnt (@TizzyEnt) June 24, 2024
I am not afraid of cancel culture or being doxxed. This is how you know you are on the target 🎯
Here is a video compilation of my advocacy work around gender ideology in the CA public schools and the tran$ medical industry. #WomenAreReal#NoChildIsBornInTheWrongBody… pic.twitter.com/cndirFsPAH
— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) June 25, 2024
UPDATE: UC Davis issues a statement regarding the viral video of their employee Beth Bourne pic.twitter.com/GHU9kjBo1Y
— TizzyEnt (@TizzyEnt) June 25, 2024
Wanna see a whole lot of words that say nothing? She has a first amendment right to say things and not face government oppression for that; that DOES NOT grant her the right to employment if her beliefs are in direct opposition to her employer & their customers, in this case the… https://t.co/hSsPR6x43y
— TizzyEnt (@TizzyEnt) June 25, 2024
Me: How would a child know if they were transgender?
Cop: They just know. They just know.
While being detained by the @honolulupolice, I had a chance to talk to the officers about my concerns around drag, children, and the tran$ medical industry.
From my interactions with… pic.twitter.com/qwMMkQr6rW
— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) June 25, 2024
Hey @ucdavis this hateful harpy Beth Bourne says “views are my own” yet lists you in her profile & tweets. So is this something you condone, especially as Moms for Liberty is identified as an antigovernment extremist group?https://t.co/gaYwjPq8RH
— SercaNeerg (@NeergSerca) June 24, 2024
Notes from Waikiki, HI:
I am not okay with children being exposed to drag queens. Several other Alohilani hotel guests told me they also found it offensive so I spoke up to the manager yesterday.
I was briefly detained by @honolulupolice, refunded my hotel charges, and have no… pic.twitter.com/LDoq7MEOQr
— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) June 24, 2024