Tamara Ching is an American trans woman and San Francisco Bay Area transgender activist.
[1] Also known as the "God Mother of Polk [Street]",[2] she is an advocate for trans, HIV, and sex work-related causes.
Ching was born in 1949 and grew up in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco, California.
[3] Ching was empowered to address the contemporary issues related to her experience as a sex worker.
Suffering with diabetes and hepatitis C, she continues to do work within the transgender and sex worker community since the 1960s and strives to create a space for young trans people.