International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV) is a day for celebrating the lives of transgender people, recognizing the contributions we make to society and rallying against the discrimination we face. TDoV also functions as a counterpart to the International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR)^[TDoR is observed on November 20th and memorializes those of us who's lives were stolen by transphobic violence, particularly trans women of color. TDoR was initially founded in 1999 in remembrance of Rita Hester, Chanelle Pickett, and Monique Thomas, three black trans women who were murdered in the Boston area.]; with TDoR being a somber occasion and TDoV having a more celebratory nature.
For this week, in observation of TDoV, I invite you all, the posters in our community to write a little bit about the celebration of trans lives.
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Someone just came out to me as trans. It's wild how many people in my life have transed their gender since I came out
You're the vanguard! Representation is extremely important and why it took me so damn long to figure things out. I went two decades constantly questioning my gender and a few months after I finally found myself in some queer/trans community I was on hormones.
I've talked about it before but I figured myself out at the time that I did because of this mega. I hadn't found myself in queer spaces before this and talking here helped me figure stuff out big time.
I remember the exact moment my old room mate cracked their egg and it was right after I had regurgitated something TerminalEncounter had said to me on here pretty much verbatim
Same here! Having a gaggle of trans friends plus existing in this mega did it for me eventually