New York: International Transgender Day of Visibility is a day dedicated to celebrating and supporting transgender and gender diverse people.
Each year on March 31, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV).
was created in 2010 by trans advocate Rachel Crandall. Crandall, the head of Transgender Michigan, created TDOV in response to the overwhelming majority of media stories about transgender people being focused on violence. Transgender Day of Visibility recognizes the generations of struggle, activism, and courage that have attempted to bring full equality for transgender and gender non-binary people around the world. The scale of this struggle is evidenced by the inability of the majority of the world to even understand the term transgender and to mistake transgenders with persons who identify themselves as one of LGBTQ.
The most common types of trans people are trans women, trans men, and non-binary people — trans women are women who were AMAB (assigned male at birth) and transitioned to female; trans men are men who were AFAB (assigned female at birth), and non-binary people are people who do not identify with male or female (and maybe AFAB or AMAB).
Slowly and thanks to the efforts of transgender people who have shared their experiences, there has been awareness about their existence, struggles and lack of human rights. Governments have begun to take notice and society has begun to empathize. The very least we as a community can do is to keep our knowledge up to date.
There exist a vast number of resources on the topic if you Google “tales of trans people” – however, the majority of the articles are based on topics like “inequality,” “discrimination,” “transphobia,” and “violence.”
