A college administrator allegedly threatened to kill a women’s rights activist protesting transgender surgeries on minors at the California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco on March 1, 2026. Beth Bourne, a 55-year-old mother and activist, was holding a sign criticizing double mastectomies on girls when Madeline Mann, the 57-year-old administrative director of clinical and translational science training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), leaned in and whispered, “I’m going to hunt you down and (expletive) kill you.”
Democratic organizers asked Bourne to leave, and she complied. Bourne is known for her undercover investigation published in 2024 by Reality’s Last Stand, where she posed as “nonbinary” and was approved for a phalloplasty after two Zoom calls. She highlighted the financial incentives, noting surgeons make $25,000 for top surgery with a $100 co-pay at Kaiser Permanente, and phalloplasty costs $130,000.
“It’s all medical fraud,” Bourne said, referencing her own daughter’s experience with a pediatrician attempting to prescribe puberty blockers at age 14. Mann, married to tech writer Merlin Mann, has an 18-year-old transgender child and has participated in pro-trans rights events, including protesting laws restricting “sex changes” for minors. No charges have been filed against Mann, and the San Francisco Police Department has not responded to inquiries.