Capitol Way South & Legion Way Southwest
Olympia, WA 98501
USA
Olympia will join dozens of cities around the world for the 16th International Transgender Day of Remembrance 2014, an event honoring the hundreds who lost their lives in the last year due to transphobic violence.
The free program features speakers addressing a range of topics, from policy advances in what Time magazine has called “America’s next civil rights frontier,” to personal stories of what it’s like to be transgender in Thurston County, and finding hope, strength and community in the face of adversity.
At the “Trans* Forming our Future” reception (at the Urban Onion restaurant across the street) local leaders will address recent and forthcoming policy changes affecting transgender individuals, including Lt. Bill Wilson, Olympia Police Department’s first-appointed LGBTQ liaison, and a representative from the Washington Federation of State Employees, which recently won equal access to hormone treatments, mental health care and gender reassignment surgery for state workers.
