I have been here since 1978. Alaska has been a non-stop social experiment when it comes to creating the diversity of this state we share today. There was a doctor at a hospital I worked at in a small community in Alaska back in 1980 who transgendered to a great looking, classy female. Some jaws dropped upon her arrival. But she was brilliant, a joy to work with and her patients loved her. She went out in the community for our pot lucks and was the first to step up and donate money for fundraisers to help people in our community with loss's and medical bills. The "manly" males in the community treated her with respect for the type of person she was. The LBGT community is not new to Alaska.