Marisol Trevio’s voyage from being a small child in remote Mexico as a Miss Trans America in 2022 was filled with difficulties that made her a successful advocate for her community.
” When I grew up, no one talked about it ( gender identity ), and that’s why there’s so much transphobia, so much hate and so much violence and discrimination because nobody understands”, she said.
In 2010, Transgender Day of Visibility was established to raise consciousness about trans people’s lives and contributions, as well as draw attention to the poverty, bias, and assault the neighborhood faces. It is observed annually on March 31 in various countries.
Trevio, who was raised in a traditional Mexican community, kept her thoughts about gender identity until she was 18 years old.
” I told my parents, that people that you know you’re never going to notice again”, she said.
She began testosterone therapy in Mexico, where she often received unwanted comments for being transgender. Again, while she was working as a waiter in a bar, someone threw acid on her in the toilet, burning her skin.
She said,” That was the moment I realized I was unable to sit comfortably as a trans woman in my nation.”
She moved to the Chicago area, and then works as a producer and socialite. Her success as a performer and show participant has led her to return and do in Mexico.
She stated that she will be that in April and May and that she has been asked to take part in an anti-bullying plan.
” I had to ( leave ) my country because I did n’t feel wanted there, and now I can go back and make a good, positive impact”, she said. ” It’s really beautiful”.
One of the classic safe havens for me to discover was writing.
For Aron Ryan of Elgin, writing let him explore his female personality.
Ryan claimed that being a transgender man in his 20s made him understand and enjoy himself. When he became comfortable with his sex and what adjectives and name fit him.
” Before I started morally and medically transitioning, it felt like I was constantly walking around with this shadow of a black sky,” he said. ” I felt very uncomfortable and not at home in my own body, which was taking up a lot of my intellectual room.”
He claimed that as he learned more about identity identification and heard about the experience of others, “it actually started to press for me.”
” It took many years”, he said. ” But when I gave myself permission to ask those sorts of questions, that’s when I actually started to have more of that practice of sex joy, rather than female dysphoria”.
Ryan’s secret poetry, which served as a kind of journal, became more and more people as he saw others discuss their journeys.
” It was just so empowering to discover other folks talk about those activities, and when I felt more confident and content with where I was, I felt like I wanted to share it as well,” he said. ” I realized I wanted to be the people that other people had been for me, somebody who’s more accessible, so they can know they’re not alone in what they’re experiencing”.
Ryan, who works at Gail Borden Public Library’s Kidspace, then is Elgin’s Poet Laureate. While he relishes the role, he does n’t want to be pigeonholed as” the trans poet”.
Being transgender is a part of a man, he said, and” I would encourage people to remember that there is intersectionality and bliss in folks.”
We must be seen in a universe that is attempting to exclude us.
Keri Davis often knew she was unique.
Growing up in Aurora, she “felt like something was off”.
” When I got out of large college I learned more about my society, that’s when I knew this was the path I was going to go down”, she said.
Davis, 33, claims that when she was younger, there were n’t many resources available to guide her. Jerry Springer and Maury Povich hosted some of the single transgender people she saw on nighttime television.
They “put this narrative about trans people in our heads that was wrong and almost made us look like clowns,” she said.” We do n’t have anything to offer this world. When I was younger, I sort of wanted to be an advocate and a trailblazer for my area, and to show someone like me how to do it the right way.
In addition to being a actor, Davis is a member of the Aurora LGBT expert panel.
” We come together to improve the area and try to assist the younger generation who may not think like they have a healthy room,” Davis said.
Davis, who stands about 6 feet high in feet, says she embraces standing out in a room and being an activist.
” I think we have to be accessible in a world that’s trying to shut us out, that’s trying to erase us”, she said. Drag is never a murder, and transgender people are still transgender. We’re certainly going somewhere”.
