Trans Spokane offers resources and connections for the Inland Northwest’s transgender and gender-nonconforming community

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Trans Spokane Executive Director Louis Stay.

Growing up in Utah, Louis Stay was faced with constant prejudice, from getting stared at in public to more overt transphobia like being called a “groomer.”

“There’s definitely a lot to be said about transitioning in a conservative area, a highly red area,” Stay says. “It’s a lot more hostile than Spokane is.”

That did not stop Stay, who’s now the executive director of Trans Spokane, from getting involved in Genderbands, a nonprofit in Orem, Utah, that funds people’s

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