West Hollywood Transgender Advisory Board Seeks to Educate and Foster Understanding
by TinaV Published: March 17, 2011

http://www.edenfantasys.com/sexis/sex-and-society/west-hollywood-transgender-advisory-board-0317115/

The city of West Hollywood is the first in the world to have its own Transgender Advisory Board that operates independently and separate from the gay and lesbian board. As gay and lesbian people become more accepted in mainstream America, those in the transgender community fight for the most basic of rights, like being able to use the public restroom of the gender with which they identify.

Very rarely do the people in charge resemble those they serve. In West Hollywood, the gay and lesbian community makes up around 40 percent of the population. Not only does the city boast an openly gay mayor in John Heilman, but several gay councilmember's as well.