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San Francisco is bringing in a morbidly obese “fat positivity” expert to be a consultant on “weight stigma and weight neutrality” in a strange choice of priorities considering the city’s serious problems.

Once one of America’s most pristine locales, the City by the Bay has deteriorated into a crime-ridden hellscape where used drug needles and human feces line the streets in some areas that have come to resemble third-world slums.

“Plus-size Latina” Virgie Tovar. who penned the book “You Have the Right to Remain Fat” among other works on “fat positivity and body acceptance,” announced her new gig in a Monday post to Instagram, calling it an “absolute dream come true.”

“I’m unbelievably proud to serve the city I’ve called home for almost 20 years in this way!” Tovar wrote. “This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it’s my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health.”

According to her website, Tovar is “a plus-size Latina author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity with over a decade of experience,” and boasts a Master’s degree “focused on the study of how weight-based discrimination impacted lifelong gender trajectories in women of color.”

She’s also a contributor for Forbes, covering stories for the “plus-size market” and ending workplace weight discrimination. Her recent articles include how to host a “size-inclusive” Thanksgiving and “fatphobia” on television.

X users weighed in on San Francisco’s onboarding of the new fatphobia czar.

It isn’t clear what exact role Tovar will play for the San Francisco Department of Public Health which did not respond to Fox News Digital when asked about what her job would entail.

In a July post, Tovar shared 4 tips from her weight bias training for government workers to assist in decreasing the “stigma around food and bodies at work.”

“1. Talk less or not at all about how you and others eat at work,” the fat positivity guru wrote. “2. Talk less or not at all about you or others’ bodies at work. 3. Talk less or not at all about exercise at work. 4. Don’t presume that food, weight, body size, or exercise are safe or comfortable topics to discuss at work for everyone.”

According to her website: “Tovar has been named one of the 50 most influential feminists by Bitch Magazine. She has received three San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commissions, the Inspire Award from Project HEAL, as well as Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, Tech Insider, BBC, MTV, NPR, and Yahoo Health. She lives in San Francisco.”

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