California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis recently announced that she's formed a transgender advisory council made up of trans leaders from around the state to foster dialogue between state leaders and the transgender community.
While we are pleased that she's taken that step — and the nine people selected do represent various geographic areas around the Golden State — one locale is missing from the table: there is no one from a San Francisco-based agency serving on it.This is unfortunate for a number of reasons.
Kounalakis is from San Francisco, which, of course, is home to the world's first trans-specific cultural district, the Transgender District.