Editing Trinidad, Colorado (section)

===Late 20th century onward===
Trinidad was dubbed the "Sex Change Capital of the World",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westword.com/news/in-the-age-of-caitlyn-jenner-trinidad-is-no-longer-worlds-sex-change-capital-6965216|title=In the Age of Caitlyn Jenner, Trinidad Is No Longer World's Sex-Change Capital|first=Patricia|last=Calhoun|date=July 29, 2015|website=westword.com|access-date=March 26, 2018}}</ref> because a local doctor had an international reputation for performing [[sex reassignment surgery]]. In the 1960s, [[Stanley Biber]], a veteran surgeon returning from Korea, decided to move to Trinidad because he had heard that the town needed a surgeon. In 1969 a local social worker asked him to perform the surgery for her, which he learned by consulting diagrams and a New York surgeon. Biber attained a reputation as a good surgeon at a time when very few doctors were performing sex-change operations. At his peak he averaged four sex-change operations a day, and the term "taking a trip to Trinidad" became a euphemism for some seeking the procedures he offered. In 1995, [[Claudine Griggs]] published ''Passage through Trinidad: Journal of a Surgical Sex Change'' about her experience with Biber.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Griggs |first1=Claudine |title=Passage through Trinidad: journal of a surgical sex change |date=1996 |publisher=McFarland & Co. |location=Jefferson, NC |isbn=978-0-7864-0088-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/passagethroughtr0000grig}}</ref> Biber was featured in [[Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina|an episode]] of ''[[South Park]]'', in which elementary school teacher [[Mr. Garrison]] undergoes a sex-change operation. Biber's surgical practice was taken over in 2003 by [[Marci Bowers]]. Bowers has since moved the practice to Burlingame, California. The 2008 documentary ''[[Trinidad (2008 film)|Trinidad]]'' focuses on Bowers and two of her patients.<ref>{{cite web|title=LAFF '08 INTERVIEW "Trinidad" Co-Directors Jay Hodges and PJ Raval|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/laff_08_interview_trinidad_co-directors_jay_hodges_and_pj_raval|work=[[IndieWire]]|access-date=September 5, 2015|date=June 26, 2008}}</ref>

[[Drop City]], a [[counterculture]] artists' community, was formed in 1965 on land about {{convert|4|mi|abbr=on}} north of Trinidad. Founded by art students and filmmakers from the [[University of Kansas]] and [[University of Colorado at Boulder]], Drop City became known as the first rural "hippie [[Intentional community|commune]]",<ref>Rabbit, Peter. (1971). ''Drop City''. The Olympia Press, Inc. p. cover [http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~jmcd/book/revs3/dcty.html Review]</ref> and received attention from ''[[Life Magazine|Life]]'' and ''[[Time Magazine|Time]]'' magazines, as well as from reporters around the world.<ref>[http://www.cpr.org/news/story/colorado-was-ground-zero-hippies-68 "Colorado was ground zero for hippies in '68"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424113151/https://www.cpr.org/news/story/colorado-was-ground-zero-hippies-68 |date=April 24, 2019 }}, Colorado Public Radio, February 12, 2015</ref> Drop City was abandoned by the early 1970s, but influenced subsequent alternative-living projects across the country.
[[File:Trinidad-co-downtown-panorama-rainy-june-2023.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Panorama of downtown Trinidad facing west on 1st Street]]

In 2015, Trinidad started to experience a new boom due to the marijuana industry. The town raised $4.4 million in tax revenue from $44 million in annual marijuana sales, about 5.13% of the state's total sales.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/1217%20Retail%20Marijuana%20Sales%20Tax%20%2815%25%29%20Report%20PUBLISH.pdf|title=State Retail Marijuana Sales Tax (15%) Tax Revenue from December 2017|last=State of Colorado|website=www.colorado.gov/pacific/revenue/colorado-marijuana-tax-data|access-date=March 3, 2018|archive-date=March 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304172423/https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/1217%20Retail%20Marijuana%20Sales%20Tax%20%2815%25%29%20Report%20PUBLISH.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/20/health/trinidad-colorado-small-town-marijuana/index.html|title=Can marijuana money save small towns?|author1=Ana Cabrera |author2=Mallory Simon |author3=Sara Weisfeldt |others=Video by Matthew Gannon and Ken Tillis|work=CNN|access-date=March 4, 2018}}</ref> In 2018 ''High Times'' called Trinidad "Weed Town, USA", noting that its 23 licensed retail marijuana dispensaries serving less than 10,000 people amounts to one dispensary per 352 people. "In one downtown block alone along Commercial Street, there were five dispensaries in a single building in town which the owner referred to as the "World's First Pot Mini Mall",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mexican |first=Daniel J. Chacón |date=April 2, 2016 |title=Colo. entrepreneurs have high hopes for marijuana mini-mall |url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/colo-entrepreneurs-have-high-hopes-for-marijuana-mini-mall/article_b977c728-8562-58f6-8322-5a73a1d800d3.html |access-date=July 31, 2023 |website=Santa Fe New Mexican |language=en}}</ref> others call it the 'weed mall'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hightimes.com/culture/weed-town-usa-how-marijuana-rescued-town-trinidad-colorado/|title=Weed Town, USA: How Marijuana Rescued the Town of Trinidad, Colorado|website=hightimes.com|date=June 18, 2018|access-date=July 25, 2018}}</ref>