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)[1]; 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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  1. 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. ↩︎

  • Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    16 days ago

    The TDoV teach-in I organized went well![1] it was hard getting everything going but once we all loosened up it was a great time. I got to talk about my trans history stuff, some other folks got to present about their interests, and we had a roundtable about choosing names and the quality of gender affirming care on campus[2].

    And then this morning I was getting cat food when this guy walked into the store wearing a MOLLE vest with knives and stuff in it and he just kept staring at me. I felt a little bit scared, very alone, and like an extremely stabbable bag of transgender meat.

    An interesting couple days.

    1. Ignoring the really intense emotional episode I had a couple hours prior. Theres been a lot of things going on all at once and I dont think Ive scream cried like that in the better part of a decade ↩︎

    2. which is accessable but kinda ass, they start all the girls out at 0.5mg e once a day and 100mg spiro twice a day… which is bordering on malpractice IMO. ↩︎