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
TRANS FEM FRIENDS: What do you wish you could say to the person you were before transition who thought it was impossible to ever actually be a girl or be fem?
I sometimes think back and find myself at a loss at what would have supported that girl best. She was so sad, hopeless, and often dissociated or in fight/flight/freeze/fawn over her distress with how she felt like she couldn't fit in the world. And like, I know "it gets better" or "it really is possible" wouldn't have gotten through.
I talk to a lot of young trans folks who go through this still every day, and so would appreciate others thoughts on this!
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.
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.
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.
Aujourd'hui c'est la journée de visibilité Trans (#TransDayofVisibility, #TDoV), une journée pour visibiliser les personnes trans et non binaire, et permet de combattre les discriminations et préjugés positivement !
J'ai réalisé ce dessin en partenariat avec Le Planning Familial , il à pour sujet le projet de loi proposé par les sénateurs LR qui veulent interdire la transition des mineurs... sans rien comprendre au sujet et en se basant uniquement sur des associations transphobes et pro-thérapies de conversion. Par exemple ils veulent interdire les chirurgies génitales sur les mineurs, alors que c'est DÉJÀ le cas et que ce n'est pas autorisé avant 18 ans ! La seule chirurgie autorisé à partir de 16 ans est la mammectomie et ne peut PAS se faire sans l'autorisation des parents.
En bref une proposition de loi basée uniquement sur des paniques morales et des théories complotistes qui va encore plus compliquer la vie des mineurs trans et non binaires.
J'ai également un autre petit projet de BD sur les questions trans que je voulais poster aujourd'hui mais qui -à cause de ma santé- à été retardé mais que je posterais la semaine prochaine si tout va bien !
Belle journée à toustes mes adelphes !
Force et bonheur à nous toustes !
Trans people are mappers, and hackers, and cartographers, and have always been a part of the OpenStreetMap community.
The OpenStreetMap project is creating a freely licenced map of the world, based on how things actually are, based on how they act, and appear, not based on what some government says. OSM is trans positive.
Some (mostly cisgender) folks have expressed surprise that I identify as #trans, but being #nonbinary IS transgender. We are not part of the cisgender binary, therefore we exist in a state of transition. Not everyone who identifies as nonbinary identifies as transgender and that's fine, but to me the two are inherently linked. This does not mean I'm changing into something new, or rather in a sense I always am.
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
I love the selfies and the being ourselves, but it’s important we also use #TDOV to talk about the cost of visibility. Nex Benedict was visibly trans and he was bullied to death. Visibility is why we’re targets now.
Let this be the year we push these haters back. #VforVengeance