This week on State of the Bay, we hear about the planned closure of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Center and learn about efforts to make California a sanctuary for transgender children and their parents. Plus, we'll find out about the Oakland Soul, a brand new women’s soccer team coming to the Bay Area.

TONIGHT: We get the latest on spiking Covid rates and what the new Monkeypox virus might mean for the Bay Area.THEN: How are "Aid-in-Dying" laws working for terminally ill patients? We'll find out when we talk to cultural anthropologist Anita Hannig about her new book, The Day I Die.PLUS: We'll find out how the pandemic pups faring.

This week, we'll learn what California lawmakers are doing to safeguard reproductive rights. We'll discuss what Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may mean for the Bay Area and also talk to The Chronicle's Soleil Ho about her life as a restaurant critic.

What pandemic changes will be made permanent in college admissions? Why are Bay Area nurses striking? What it is like to have an incarcerated son.

We talk to BART Board President Rebecca Saltzman and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Ricardo Cano about rebounding BART ridership numbers; novelist Vanessa Hua joins us to talk about her new novel, "Forbidden City"; and, we learn about the return of the surf competition The Mavericks to Half Moon Bay

We'll discuss redistricting chaos in SF; how women prioritizing their careers can be good for kids; and we'll learn about San Francisco Briones Society

Aging experts Ariana Alex and Jenay Cotrell discuss growing old in the Bay area. Nataliya Anon updates us on the crisis in Ukraine and we talk with America's oldest competitive snowboarder Dick Shultze.