Fact Check: Did Joe Biden Create Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter?
President Joe Biden earned the ire of conservatives and a famous transgender woman, Caitlyn Jenner, when he issued a proclamation recognizing the Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV)."Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved.
You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back," the president said in a statement released on Friday.The message angered a number of conservatives as TDoV fell on March 31, the same day as the heterodox Christian Easter.
Orthodox Easter this year falls on May 5.A number of conservatives said that Biden had hijacked a holy holiday to support transgender people.The ClaimJenner, an Olympic decathlete champion and reality TV star, who publicly came out as a transgender woman in 2015, took to X, formerly Twitter, to slam Biden's message of support to transgender people, suggesting that he created TDoV to be held on the "most Holy of Holy days.""I am absolutely disgusted that Joe Biden has declared the most Holy of Holy days - a self proclaimed devout Catholic - as Transgender Day of Visibility.
The only thing you should be declaring on this day is 'HE is Risen'," she wrote.I am absolutely disgusted that Joe Biden has declared the most Holy of Holy days - a self proclaimed devout Catholic - as Transgender Day of Visibility.
