Well-known transgender advocate Ms. Billie Cooper is mounting a bid to be elected in 2022 to San Francisco's District 6 supervisor seat.
The longtime Tenderloin resident would be the city's first transgender supervisor and first Black LGBTQ supervisor on the board should she be elected.
Cooper, a Navy veteran who has lived with HIV for more than four decades, would be the first HIV-positive person elected to the Board of Supervisors and only second long-term HIV survivor to serve on it.
The first was gay former District 8 supervisor Jeff Sheehy, who was appointed to fill a vacancy in 2017 but lost his election bid the following year. "I am a resident, I am a stakeholder of the Tenderloin.