San Diego leaders gathered in a quiet residential neighborhood on Wednesday for a new street renaming that honors the late Julia Legaspi, who was Mira Mesa resident, local civil rights leader, and transgender member of San Diego's Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

Mayor Todd Gloria, Assemblymember Chris Ward, Council President Pro Tem Kent Lee, and other community leaders unveiled the "Julia Legaspi Way" sign in honor of her on her birthday, according to Councilmember Lee's office. Legaspi made history through becoming the first transgender person appointed to public office in San Diego.

For decades, the city once held discriminatory policies like its anti-"cross-dressing" law, which disproportionately targeted trans women of color, according to Lee's office. Legaspi's advoc

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