As the first openly transgender chair of a Maryland Commission, Mx. Lee Blinder is a proud, openly nonbinary, transgender, and queer Marylander, and the founding Executive Director of Trans Maryland. They served on Governor Wes Moore’s transition team and sit on LGBTQIA+ advisory boards around Maryland, facilitating transgender 101 and gender-affirming workplace training for government, medical organizations, and private companies. In addition, they lead Trans Maryland’s peer-to-peer name and gender marker change program, helping trans Marylanders get set up with IDs that truly represent them. Lee has been serving their community since they helped launch the Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) at Montgomery Blair High School in 1996. They enjoy spending time with their adopted animal companions, a cat named Basil Pasta Marinara and two dogs, Cupcake and Chickpea.
Pronouns: They, them, theirs.
