Members and supporters of San Francisco’s transgender community joined Mayor London Breed and state Sen. Scott Wiener to kick off the third annual Transgender History Month by raising the transgender flag over City Hall last week. 

In 2021, Breed declared the month of August as Transgender History Month, making San Francisco the first city in the nation to do so. She also established an Office of Transgender Initiatives and the world’s first transgender district in the Tenderloin neighborhood, making San Francisco a sanctuary for gender non-conforming people. 

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.