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Beth Bourne was asked to leave the board meeting after she stripped down to her bikini in protest.

The board members nervously looked at each other as Bourne continued to use her allotted three minutes for her public comment.

The regular meeting of the Davis Joint Unified School District’s Board of Education was thrown off the rails on Sept. 18 when Beth Bourne took off her clothes during the public comment portion of the meeting.

Bourne, an anti-LGBTQ+ activist based in Yolo County, said she disagrees with the district’s policies that allow transgender students to choose the bathrooms and locker rooms that they use.

Bourne, a member of the nonprofit group Moms for Liberty, held up a gym uniform during her public comment, claiming that middle school students are uncomfortable changing in front of their transgender peers.