Transmissions: The other days
In 2009, feeling a need for an event to balance the Transgender Day of Remembrance, the inaugural Transgender Day of Visibility was held.
The event was held this year on March 31 and provides a way to celebrate living transgender people. (The remembrance event, which was started by yours truly in 1999, is meant to recognize trans people lost to violence, though many places also honor those lost to AIDS and other diseases.)The visibility event has grown, including being officially recognized by President Joe Biden for the first time this year.
Indeed, the executive branch took the opportunity to roll out a number of trans- and nonbinary-related policies, including allowing for "X" gender markers for United States passports beginning April 11.These are good things that I should feel happy about.
And yet, on a day of visibility, I felt as if I'd rather get a day to be invisible.I feel the need to put a caveat into this piece.
