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Davis anti-transgender activist and school board candidate Beth Bourne, who drew headlines by disrobing at a 2025 Davis City Council meeting while questioning schools’ transgender policies, faces an October court date on a misdemeanor charge that she violated a court order with social media posts, Davis police said.
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News of the allegation was first reported by the Davis Vanguard.
The case stemmed from a June 21 report to the Davis Police Department alleging that the Yolo County activist had violated the terms of a court order, Lt. John Evans, a Davis police spokesperson, told The Sacramento Bee on Thursday.
“There were allegations that (Bourne) had posted social media that was in violation of the order,” Evans said. Davis police sent the report to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office to determine whether formal charges should be filed.
Yolo prosecutors decided to file the allegation — a misdemeanor charge of willfully failing to obey a court order — and directed Bourne to report to Davis police. She was booked Monday and released, Evans said.
Bourne is scheduled to appear Oct. 19 in Yolo Superior Court in Woodland.
Bourne’s attorney, Jesse Franklin-Murdock, did not immediately return a reporter’s call Thursday. Franklin-Murdock told the Davis Vanguard his office had not yet received the complaint and that he planned to defend the case.
Bourne, the mother of a nonbinary teen, chairs the Yolo County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a self-described parental rights advocacy group, and is among the state’s most prominent voices opposing transgender rights. She is also a frequent presence at city events and school board meetings where she has protested policies related to transgender students.
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Bourne in July announced her candidacy for Davis Joint Unified School District Board, saying she wanted to advocate for parents’ rights to be involved in decisions regarding their children’s gender identity at school. She also had voiced concerns about discussions of mental health in schools, the teaching of ethnic studies and transgender athletes in sports competition.
The district obtained a restraining order against Bourne in 2023 after she shared instructors’ personal information, according to previous Bee reporting. The order was later revoked. That same year, Davis campuses received bomb threats after Moms for Liberty hosted an event about transgender women in sports.
In June, the same month the alleged violation was reported to police, district officials ordered Bourne to stay away from district property for 14 days unless authorized, alleging she interfered with peaceful campus conduct.
Bourne said at the time that she had been “silenced” by school board trustees for her stances.
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The Bee’s Camryn Dadey contributed to this story.