Hundreds of people took part in the Trans March in downtown Toronto on Friday night in solidarity with the city’s transgender community. Nicki Ward, a Toronto LGBT leader and director of the Church-Wellesley Neighbourhood Association, helped to organize the first Trans March in Toronto in 2009. As Ward admired the large crowd that gathered on Church Street and Hayden Street at the start of the march on Friday night, she said the march has come a long way. “There’s an excitement here, a sense of engagement that what we’re doing actually has meaning,” Ward said.