The recall organizers appeared to distance themselves from Lemon after the ugly scene at the pride flag raising. And they succeeded in forcing a recall election targeting Ureña and another brash young progressive council member, Gilberto Manzanarez. Voters will decide their political fate in a special election on April 16.
The recall is about many things - homelessness, economic development, political grudges. But the campaign against Ureña in particular has thrown the almost entirely Latino city of 38,000 people in the rural Imperial Valley right into America's culture wars over gender identity.
Ureña, 26, stands out as one of the 11 transgender or nonbinary people in elected office in California. She believes the recall is driven by “tried-and-tested, predictable transphobia.” Fellow recall target Manzanarez agrees.
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