Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility a time to celebrate transgender and non-binary people around the globe and acknowledge the courage it takes to live openly and authentically.
This year #TransDayOfVisibility is a reminder that in too many places across this country officials are denying our trans siblings their human rights. From taking away their right to play sports or use gender affirming bathrooms to criminalizing their parents and doctors for loving and supporting them as well as not allowing their teachers to even use the word Trans.
And this denying of human rights is on top of the already high rates of murder experienced by these communities especially trans women of color. So in addition to worrying if you are safe leaving your door you have to worry if government officials are going to make living your life impossible too.
As a white cis-gendered female asexual
Please Please Please stop harming my trans siblings.
When others speak against my trans siblings it feels like they are going my favorite color is red so having someone else's favorite color be green or yellow or purple is a real threat to my favorite color and must be stopped. Or they are saying I thought as an infant their favorite color would be red but now they say their favorite color is purple how dare they have a different favorite color now that they better understand themselves.
If some one can understand people have different favorite colors and how sometimes you start with one favorite color but realize later in life a different color is now your favorite they should be able to understand it is the same with gender. People have different genders and sometimes find the gender that fit well at one point no longer does, or the original gender never really fit well to begin with but they did not know there were other options.
So today, like all days, please remember that #TransRightsAreHumanRights and that my trans siblings just want to be able to live their lives. They want to be able to play sports, to pee, to have government documents match their gender, to walk down the street without worrying about if they are going to experience abuse or discrimination today.
Why is allowing someone be comfortable in their own skin so threatening to so many?
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