I have to admit, I did not expect the nonstory that #TDOV happened to fall on Easter this year to become an all-consuming conservative obsession approaching the level of last year's nonstory that Dylan Mulvaney did an Instagram spot with Budweiser.
What this is about - what all of these stories are ultimately about - is an attempt to terrorize the #transgender community out of public life. #news#journalism
For so many of us, coming out isn't just about ourselves--it's about the people we love most, and especially our partners.
But we do come out to them, and then the person we love the most is faced with the reality that, "Oh, s#!t, my partner just told me they're trans." What the fuck do I do?!
They deserve support in those tender first moments, and this week, I'm going to try and give them a little with a jumbo edition of #StainedGlassWoman!
I wrote about Easter falling on the same day as #TDOV last week, when it was just a twinkle in conservatives' eyes.
At the time I didn't think it would take off bc it was too dumb. As usual I overestimated just how dumb and hateful this moral panic is. #trans#news#easter
Closing out #TDoV with a personal post about how important visibility has been to my transition and how I strive to be visible for others.
I would not be where I am in my transition and in my life if it were not for the visible examples of so many of my trans siblings … whether it is seeing trans actors such as Laverne Cox on the screen, following trans people on (at first) Twitter and then here or meeting each other in person, all were necessary reassurances that I was not unique and alone.
Whatever I knew of transgender people before my egg cracked, was 90% hypothetical. Transgender people existed (in theory) but I never had (knowingly) met a trans person. All my suppressed questions and issues with gender felt wrong or abnormal and something only I was facing.
Wishing a Trans Day of Visibility of strength for all trans fam and friends (+ trans friends I don't know yet!) and wanting you to know that when you run out of spoons I am your ally with knives, always and forever ❤️ 🏳️⚧️ #TDOV
"The reality of this situation is we have known exactly who we are for as long as we can remember. It may have been a looser sense of difference from the mainstream than it is now, but I can guarantee it was there. We may not have had the language to describe that feeling, or had the visibility to be able to voice who we are at an academic level, but we have always been who we are." -Ben Pechey, The Book of #Nonbinary Joy
Happy #TDOV! Are you a cis person whining about how trans people online tend to talk about being trans an awful lot?
Imagine having something about yourself that you can't change but is pretty innocuous. And yet somehow that thing is a constant source of public debate, legal jeopardy, death threats, and occasional actual violence.
Then revisit your weird public judgements about what other people think is important to talk about.
It's in my bio but in case it wasn't clear, since today is the day, I'm a trans woman. I came out in 1998.
My number one wish for today: trans representation in popular entertainment. Representation, showing minorities as real people rather than caricatures, makes it harder for the haters to spread their venom and infect others.
One more post for Trans Day of Visibility, an assortment of wrestlers and refs who are trans, non binary, gender queer. Wrestling will always be my first love to photograph and as a trans photographer, it's always great to be accepted and trusted to shoot these moments
hey hi while we're being all visible, did you know I write light novels?
if you ever watched a movie where someone gets turned into a catgirl to learn an important life lesson only to return to normal at the end and you went "wait why would you ever go back"—these books are for you!
Happy Easter to all our Transgender Siblings
Whether you're still an 🥚egg🥚, or 🏳️⚧️ out and proud 🏳️⚧️
We love you for being you #TDoV#Easter#transrights
Being trans shouldn't be such a big deal, because being different than others shouldn't be such a big deal, but the society I grew up was determined to treat anything but hegemonic gender as a threat, so here we are. But here I am, some weird glitches meant I had to figure out I was a lesbian and actualize that life in opposition to everything the world was telling me.
If you’re a really supportive ally and find yourself passionately reading as many #TDOV and #TransitionTimeline posts as you can, I made this for you for next year: