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Illegal aliens cross border seeking ‘free’ sex changes in California

Word has apparently traveled down the continent to the transgender communities in Mexico, Honduras, and elsewhere: If you make it all the way to California, the government will pay for your shelter, hormones, and surgeries — no questions asked.

Last month, we received a report from a whistleblower who claimed that illegal aliens were staying in San Francisco’s homeless shelters.

Following up on the tip, we visited numerous publicly-funded shelters in San Francisco, and spoke to employees and residents about their policies, sometimes through a translator. 

We discovered not only that the shelters were housing illegal immigrants, but also that they were apparently housing a population of male-to-female “transgender” illegal aliens, who had hoped to obtain free “gender-affirming care” in California.

And, to our shock, state and local governments apparently are providing it.

St. Vincent De Paul’s MSC-South facility is San Francisco’s largest homeless shelter, and, in 2024, signed a $66 million service contract with the city. After we arrived at the front entrance, an employee wearing a do-rag and a light green polo shirt showed us around and confirmed that illegal aliens were living there.

“You got a few people here from El Salvador. . . . You got a few people here from Venezuela. You got a few people here from a little bit of everywhere,” he said. 

As a rule, he suggested, management instructed employees to refuse cooperation with federal immigration authorities. “When the ICE thing was going around, we all had a meeting, and they told us, ‘We ain’t letting them in.’” 

Among the shelter’s residents was a group of Hondurans who identified as transgender. During our visit to MSC-South, whose executive director did not respond to a request for comment, we spoke with two Honduran men, “Lyca” and........

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