Author, activist traces over a century of transgender history in San Francisco's Tenderloin

In the heart of San Francisco, Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer has unearthed a lineage of transgender history that has long thrived in the city. Within that history, Rohrer found a community that felt like home.

"Finding people in old-timey photos made me feel a little bit more seen in presence today, like I wasn't inventing a new thing for myself," Rohrer said.

Today, he walks among the world's first legally recognized Transgender District, which spans parts of Market Street and the Tenderloin.

"On these corners is a place where the 1906 earthquake destroyed a lot of stuff, including that vaudeville theater. It paved the way for trans people to kind of move into some of that housing and to SROs in the area," he said.

The history embedded in these blocks stretches back centuries.

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