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The ninth annual Capital Trans Pride will take place on Saturday at the Reeves Municipal Center in Northwest D.C.

A number of workshops on a variety of topics are scheduled to take place during the daylong event. These include legal name and gender changes, trans people living with HIV, access to health care and employment, incarceration, immigration and asylum and gender variant youth.

Participants are scheduled to march from the Reeves Center at the intersection of 14th and U Streets, N.W., to Dupont Circle at 4 p.m. in what organizers have described as a “Trans Visibility Walk.” An after party is slated to take place at the Gryphon on Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

The D.C. Center for the LGBT Community, Whitman-Walker Health, the D.C. Office of Human Rights, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, SMYAL, Kaiser Permanente and La Clinica del Pueblo are among the sponsors of this year’s event.

“Capital Trans Pride is an important part of the Pride celebration,” said Ryan Bos, executive director of the Capital Pride Alliance, in a press release. “D.C.’s transgender community is an integral component of the broader LGBTA community and we are committed to making sure that Capital Pride’s programming reflects inclusion and recognition of our transgender brothers and sisters.”

First held in 2006, this year’s Capital Trans Pride will take place against the backdrop of increased visibility of trans-specific issues at the local and national level.

D.C. Police Sgt. Jessica Hawkins in March became the first trans supervisor of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit. Then-D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray last October walked Casa Ruby CEO Ruby Corado down the aisle at her wedding.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter in February spoke favorably of allowing trans servicemembers to serve openly in the armed forces. Then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder late last year announced that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that bans gender-based discrimination also includes gender identity.

The White House in March held a briefing that focused specifically on trans women of color, but serious challenges remain for this historically disadvantaged and marginalized group.

Lamia Beard of Norfolk, Va., is among the more than half a dozen trans women of color who have been reported killed across the country so far this year.

Hundreds of people in January marched through downtown Washington to honor Leelah Alcorn, a trans Ohio teenager who took her own life late last year on an interstate outside of Cincinnati. A D.C. judge in March sentenced a Maryland man to 56 months in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting a trans teenager at the Fort Totten Metro station last July.