SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) Since as early as the 1920s, San Francisco s Tenderloin District has been a documented home for transgender residents. Everyone around me in my life told me that I d have a better life when I came to San Francisco, Aria Sa id co-founder and executive director of the Compton s Transgender Cultural District reveals. So many trans people come here like refugees from other cities in the United States.
Sa id first came to San Francisco when she was 19 years old. As a Black trans woman, as a teenager in San Francisco, I learned very quickly that while San Francisco affirmed me legislatively.socially.I had walked into job interviews and been laughed at.I had been spit on in the street, Sa id shares.