Kim Coco Iwamoto

Hawaii State Representative, District 25

Winner!

Kim Coco will the first out trans state lawmaker in Hawaii!

Biography

Kim Coco Iwamoto won election to the Hawaii Board of Education in 2006, becoming the first out trans person to win state office and one of the first out trans people elected in the United States. Iwamoto served two terms on the board and was appointed to the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission by Governor Neil Abercrombie in 2012.