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A University of California, San Francisco administrative director has been identified as the transgender activist who threatened to kill a woman at the California Democratic Party state convention.
“I’m gonna hunt you down and f*cking kill you!” Madeline Mann (née Cudworth Stiness), an administrative director of clinical and translational science training at UCSF, said to Beth Bourne before shoving her and fleeing the scene in a video that has since been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media.
“How much money does a surgeon make off giving a girl top surgery?” Ms. Bourne said in the selfie-style video as the pro-trans activist stood beside her. “Kaiser Permanente charges only a $100 co-pay, and the surgeon makes $25,000.
“I was approved for a phalloplasty in two appointments over Zoom,” she continued. “You know, they make a phalloplasty out of the skin tissue on your thigh and forearm. It’s like a skin sausage. It’s a fake penis. $130,000.”
Ms. Mann stood silently at first. She then leaned into Ms. Bourne’s ear and uttered the death threat before shoving her away and storming off, video shows.
Ms. Bourne reported the incident to the San Francisco Police Department. The responding officer, Kathryn Winters, is a trans activist who identifies as female. Afterward, Democrat organizers asked Ms. Bourne to leave the center. She complied.
Ms. Mann manages and oversees administrative functions at a UCSF clinic that receives National Institutes of Health funding to research ways to improve patient and community health. She is married to woke tech writer and podcaster Merlin Mann.
The couple have an 18-year-old daughter, Eleanor Flannery Mann, whom they helped transition at approximately age 15. They previously referred to her as “Ellie.” Eleanor first used “they/them” pronouns before later adopting “he/him.” Her parents now refer to her as their “son.