Overview
- Organizers estimated about 10,000 participants joined Friday’s march along Market Street
- The procession combined celebratory music and dance with protests against President Donald Trump’s directives to recognize only two genders and ban trans athletes
- Marchers followed a symbolic route from Dolores Park through the Transgender District past the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot site
- Attendees included Bay Area residents and out-of-state visitors, some traveling from as far as South Carolina for the event
- The Trans March kicked off San Francisco Pride weekend, leading into Saturday’s Civic Center performances and Sunday’s 55th annual Pride Parade