Mark Freeman, Nurse Practitioner
We started this clinic 17 years ago. Turned out to be the country's first primary care clinic specifically for trans people. And it seems that what we were doing for all those years finally has a name. It is now called Harm Reduction.

Veronica Klaus, Narrator
I vividly remember the kind of places you had to go to get hormones before Tom Waddell, before Transgender Tuesdays. One of the doctors took out a used syringe and tried to re-use it to give an injection, and said it was okay because none of the patients he had were HIV positive.

Clive Walker, Cinematographer
After watching the first interviews and hearing their stories I was hooked and knew they needed to be heard. This film puts a human face on an issue that is too often moralized and politicized, leaving the people it affects without a voice.

Nathaniel Walters, Editor
Living across the street from Mr. Lee-ona's Cocktail Lounge and Aunt Charlie's in the Tenderloin for some of the best years of my life, I was happily exposed to the Transgender community, both in life and work.

Marilyn Robinson
I chose the name Marilyn for one because I didn't think I was attractive, two because I had a lot in common with Marilyn Monroe because we're both orphans, and three, I don't think I'm attractive but with a name like Marilyn, the men might think so.

Angel Ichord
The biggest change I have made in my life is getting sober and getting off the streets. I spent 25 to 30 years running the streets, robbing, stealing, doing whatever I had to do to survive. Don't feel sorry for me, feel sorry for the people who met me!

Dustin H.
I was a little crazy then. Cause I was drinking all the time, fighting all the time, being rowdy. And no, it didn't always work out that well.

Claudia Quijano
At the beginning my mother always knew what I was, but my father couldn't accept it. He said that I had to get out of the house. Fortunately my mother supported me and told him if he rejected me that she would leave with me. So my papa understood and accepted me and found a way to have me in the family. For me that was very satisfying, very satisfying.

Stephanie Roy, Campaign Manager
I cannot cure every homophobic person out there, but I can spend the rest of my life fighting to make sure their children grow up in a world filled with love, acceptance, and understanding.

Bill Weber, Consulting Editor
Though totally overbooked, when I saw the faces in these clips I knew I had to be involved in this.

Tamera Chance, Guitarist
Back in my days playing head-banging electric guitar and bartending in the gay Castro District's most popular bars, I used to drink. I mean I drank a lot. So yeah, I had a lot of self-esteem issues, and I still get depressed. I still get OMG the vision that I have is so far away, and Oh When Am I Ever Going to Find Prince Charming and all that stuff. But I ended up becoming clean and sober. Mostly I'm on the path I think.

Nola van Della
The clinic is one of the few things that gives me faith that the world is not cruel and getting crueler, and that there are compassionate people around, cause I get the feeling things are gonna get a lot more mean and financially lean. Tom Waddell would be a model for everywhere because there's transsexuals everywhere, there's still an underserved minority that are left to their own devices.

Red Jordan Arobateau
I want you all to know that while I was slinging hash or mopping floors, I was going home at night and writing these essentially TG books. I have 90 books, 90 books. Look me up online. You know, give me the money.

Kelly Kelly
I identified as a gay man for 13 years and I was never happy in my own skin. I came from a white middle-class upbringing and I didn't know where to go. It's not like there's a gender support group on every corner like there's a Starbucks.

Luisa Guerrero
This Mexican boy grabbed me and threw me on the shower floor. The coach came in and he said, "Pick him up." He said to me, "You're not going to take showers anymore. You're going to be the towel boy." And it was real weird, I was like in this cage by myself, fully clothed. They were all nude, you know, 17 years old and frisky.