SAN FRANCISCO—The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7–4 on April 25 to rescind the 12X State Travel Ban.
The ban is a city administrative code that prohibits city-funded employee travel to 30 listed states and forbids city contracts involving those states. It serves as a boycott of states considered to be restrictive of abortion, voting, or LGBTQ rights.
San Francisco passed the ban in 2016, the year after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Initially, the boycott applied only to states considered to be restrictive of LGBTQ rights. However, the list was expanded to include states that have restrictive abortion laws in 2019, and to states that have restrictive voting laws in 2021….