Sunday is International Transgender Day of Visibility, observed around the world to bring notice to a community that’s often ignored, disparaged or victimized.
What is known about the day, below.
Although the “day” is Sunday, activities and educational opportunities to raise awareness of trans people are taking place for many days around March 31.
Activities were scheduled around the world and include sections and speakers in Cincinnati and Atlanta, marches in Melbourne, Florida and Philadelphia, and an equitable roller derby team’s activity on New York’s Long Island. In Hitchin, England, is planned a lunch.
Probably the highest page U. S. celebration is a protest scheduled for Sunday on the National Mall in Washington, D. C.
To mark the occasion, major monuments and monuments across the United States will be illuminated in red, white, and light blue. Last month, those light included New York’s One World Trade Center and Niagara Falls.
Rachel Crandall- Crocker, the professional director and i- founder of Transgender Michigan, organized the first day in 2009.
” I think that when a person understands us, it’s hard to discriminate against us”, she said in an exam. I made it because I wanted a moment when we should n’t feel so alone. I hoped one evening when everyone in the world came together as a single area. And that’s precisely what we are”.
It stands in contrast to Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is held annually on November 20 in honor of trans people who have died in anti-transgender violence.
The day was chosen by Crandall- Thomas at the end of March to take its place from June’s Pride and Remembrance Month, which honors all types of LGBTQ+ individuals.
She plans to take part in a march in Lansing, Michigan.
In open spaces across the United States and abroad, transgender individuals have become more perceptive.
Additionally, conservative officials have received a reaction. At least 11 states have passed laws preventing trans women and/or women competing in sports for women or girls, and more than 20 have passed laws enforcing laws preventing gender-affirming health care for adolescents. Some laws have been delayed by judges.
It’s important to find pleasure despite the political unrest, according to Nico Lang, writer of” American Teen: How Trans Kids are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Stormy Era.”
” I feel like we as individuals — all of us gay people, trans people — are trying to assert our society right today”, said Lang, who uses they/them nouns.
They claimed that the day of power was heightened by events like demonstrations and picnic meals in real life.
” It’s just us living our lives”, they said.
