This is wonderful news!

Washington as a whole is a very blue state, with strong protections for LGBTQIA+ people, it’s not uniform.

West of the Cascade Mountains, is very green, very urban, very wet, and predominantly liberal in politics. East if the Cascades is the opposite, mostly brown, sparely populated, dry, agricultural areas that lean conservative.

This is a much bigger deal than you would reasonably think hearing of a very trans accepting city in WA. Spokane is the biggest city in eastern Washington. It is in some of the reddest parts of the state, only 20 miles from the border to the Idaho panhandle, you know, the part known for having a disproportionate number of neonazis.