Beth Bourne, the notorious president of the Yolo County, California, Moms for Liberty chapter, attempted another unhinged anti-LGBTQ+ stunt during a recent Davis School Board meeting.

As journalist Erin Reed reports, video from the September 18 meeting shows Bourne taking the mic to address the board about the Davis Unified School District’s trans-inclusive junior high school bathroom and locker room policies.

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“Right now we require our students to undress for PE class, so I’m just going to give you an idea of what that looks like when I undress,” Bourne said at the start of her remarks.

Davis then removed her top as she continued to speak.

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“So, right now, this school district is saying that depending on a child’s transgender identity, that they can pick which bathroom they want,” she said, standing before the board in just her bra and jeans. “Right now at this school district, we have children self-identifying into different bathrooms…” she continued, removing her jeans.

As one member of the board protested, Bourne insisted that “This is allowed,” noting that she was wearing a bathing suit. Another board member then called for a recess as Bourne accused the board of violating her First Amendment rights. A third board member told Bourne that she was being disruptive just before the audio in the clip cut out.

As Reed notes, Bourne has a history of similarly disruptive and attention-seeking anti-trans antics. According to an April 2024 Sacramento Bee profile of the former UC Davis staffer, Bourne became one of California’s most vocal anti-trans activists in the years since her eldest child came out first as trans and later as nonbinary.

In October 2023, local news station ABC 10 reported that the Davis Joint Unified School District filed for a temporary restraining order against Bourne following a spate of bomb threats to local schools, libraries, and even the homes of educators. Bourne had reportedly shared dozens of social media posts about Davis schools, including some that named specific teachers.

At one school board meeting, she compared being transgender to “transracial” white people darkening their skin to appear Black and having one’s limbs removed to become disabled.

In February 2024, she reportedly went undercover as nonbinary to “expose” best practices at a gender-affirming care clinic associated with UC Davis. The following June, she filmed herself harassing two drag performers in a hotel lobby while on vacation in Hawaii. She accused the pair, who had been invited to the hotel by management to film an ad, of misogyny and demanded a refund for her hotel stay for merely having to see two drag queens.

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