SF trans district announces some 2022 moves
San Francisco's Transgender District is planning on expanding its services and programming in the new year, officials said at a virtual town hall to kick off 2022.
It is also working on bringing in more trans- and queer-owned businesses to its area of the city's Tenderloin district. Juniper Yun, the district's director of cultural affairs, said that under her supervision there will be more name and gender change clinics and services this year.
A number of LGBTQ groups in the Bay Area have been offering such services due to California officials making it easier to update one's name and gender on state-issued IDs and the process more accessible to the trans community. "We're so proud to announce we will be expanding those in 2022 to include not only name changes but programming that is robust and in partnership with many legal partners so we can do more types of documentation change-over, anything from passports to birth certificates, for those who are transgender or gender-nonconforming in the San Francisco Bay Area," Yun said during the January 26 online gathering.
Yun also said that the Tenderloin-anchored district is looking for a storefront for the Comfort Collective, a pop-up restaurant co-created by nonbinary chef Christian Washington. "If you haven't heard of it, I'm surprised," Yun said. "They're the most inclusively exclusive, Southern comfort food in the East Bay.
