Ginger
Ginger Li (she/her/hers)
Ginger Li is a 61-year-old, Chinese American, transgender woman who came out at 40, following a conversation with her daughter about photos (on a floppy-disk) of her in feminine clothing. Soon after, Ginger found support at Ingersoll Gender Center in Seattle and, later, a vibrant social world at Emerald City Social Club and the Esprit Conference, which is held annually in Port Angeles, Washington.
In 2003, Ginger, Veronica Steed, and a few other conference attendees performed 80’s cover songs at the Esprit talent show. The 80s/90s cover band, The Nasty Habits grew out of the talent show and the band has been playing mostly straight bars in Port Angeles, other areas of the Olympic Peninsula, and Seattle for the past 15+ years.
Here, Ginger talks about coming out to her family and at work, her early and ongoing involvement in trans support and social groups, and the stereotypes about rural towns and the people who live there– particularly those that have changed as The Nasty Habits have glammed up bars in fishing and logging towns.
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