This time, Transgender Day of Visibility falls on Easter Sunday, which is also observed on the same day.
Right-wing reviewers are incredibly upset that a state in Virginia voted to observe Transgender Day of Visibility this year on Easter Sunday.
A fixed, yearly celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility takes place on March 31 every year. This day falls on Easter Sunday this time, the same day.
No one has “decided” to schedule Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday; this is a movable observance that may occur on any Sunday between March 22 and April 25.
Even though Transgender Day of Visibility coincides with Easter Sunday, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in Northern Virginia unanimously voted (9 to 0) to recognize it. As you can imagine, not everyone is content with the decision.
Fox News reported that Stephanie Lundquist-Arora– the Fairfax chapter leader of the Independent Women’s Network, an organization that serves as “a personal website forum empowering traditional women to influence, inspire, and shape their communities” – called the decision “reprehensible.”
Another resident criticized Fairfax County for “hijacking Easter.”
Lundquist-Arora wrote for the Washington Examiner, a conservative news outlet based in Washington, that Fairfax County’s supervisors are turning the “holiest days into a celebration of an ideology that undermines the church’s core beliefs.”
“The board members also abused their irrational decision to exploit Easter to honor the ideological homogeneity of the governing brain,” Lundquist-Arora continued.
She claims that the supervisors are “abusing their irrational decision to sabotage Easter.”
“Fairfax County School Board, for instance, has designated June as LGBT Pride Month and October as LGBT History Month. The area gets two full weeks of events in our district’s schools. Apparently, that just wasn’t enough.”
Despite the criticism from the right, the decision represents a significant step forward for Virginia as a whole.
Democrat Supervisor Jimmy Bierman said during the vote, “I’m just really happy that we’re recognizing a group that has too frequently been pushed into the shadows and celebrating yet another community within our diverse tapestry here in Fairfax County,” according to Fox News.
Bierman was one of nine members who requested the proclamation. He added that he wants to “make sure that everybody who’s a part of our community feels welcomed, feels loved, and feels empowered.”
This move also comes amid conservative states enacting anti-trans laws restricting medical access for minors – this has been the case in Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Florida.
Fairfax County has previously made headlines for its pro-trans stance. A Fairfax County Public Schools student was suing the school board earlier this month for violating a trans protection policy, according to The Washington Post.
The conservative organization America First Legal filed the lawsuit, alleging that protecting transgender students “violates the rights of others.”
According to some, the policy, which allows students to use facilities that correspond to their gender identity and requires the use of a student’s chosen pronouns and name, contradicts the unnamed student’s religious beliefs.
