A Look Inside San Francisco's Transgender District
Founder and Executive Director Aria Sa'id explains why she founded the district and how the pandemic has impacted their community and its resources.
Aria Sa’id moved from Portland, Oregon, to San Francisco at age 19 to seek refuge in the city because nowhere else in the U.S. felt safe to her as a Black trans woman.
But the reality of living in the city didn’t meet her expectations. Now, Sa’id is the founder and executive director of Compton’s Transgender Cultural District — the
