elected. US state of Minnesota enacts gender identity anti-discrimination legislation. The Human Rights Campaign drops the word "Fund" from their title and broadens their mission to promote "an America where gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are ensured equality and embraced as full members of the American family at home, at work and in every community;" Gender identity was added to the mission of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays after a vote at their annual meeting in San Francisco. Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays is the first national LGBT organization to officially adopt a transgender-inclusion policy for its work. Dana International became the first trans person to win the Eurovision Song Contest, representing Israel with the song "Diva". Parinya Charoenphol becomes the first kathoey (transgender) Muay Thai boxing champion. The Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a trans woman who is a graphic designer, columnist, and activist, to memorialize the murder of Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts. Since its inception, TDoR has been held annually on 20 November, and it has slowly evolved from the web-based project started by Smith into an international day of action. 2000s The Transgender Pride flag was first shown, at a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona. Anti-discrimination legislation (gender identity): US state of Rhode Island Transcendence Gospel Choir, the first known transgender choir, was founded in San Francisco. Canada's Northwest Territories became the first jurisdiction in Canada to ban discrimination based on gender identity; the remaining provinces all would by 2017. Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays established its Transgender Network, also known as TNET, as its first official "Special Affiliate", recognized with the same privileges and responsibilities as its regular chapters. At the Reform seminary Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, the Reform rabbi Margaret Wenig organized the first school-wide seminar at any rabbinical school which addressed the psychological, legal, and religious issues affecting people who are intersex or transsexual. In December 2002, the British Lord Chancellor's office published a Government Policy Concerning Transsexual People document that categorically states, "What transsexualism is not ... It is not a mental illness." Reuben Zellman became the first openly transgender person accepted to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he was ordained in 2010. The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards approved a rabbinic ruling that concluded that sex reassignment surgery