Today Is The Trans Day Of Invisibility
No one is talking about them anywhere at all for 24 hours
Transgender people are invisible today, but only for today. They become visible again at midnight.
For the rest of the year, transgender people are the most visible people on the planet. That’s because transgender people are the most marginalized and invisible community in the world, so that every day requires a reminder of their existence.
Recognition of the existence of transgender people is so important that a liturgical calendar of trans days, months, weeks, and trans-centered LGBTQ+ celebrations has been necessary to make the world see them.
Today is the only day of the year when we are not reminded that transgender people exist. They become invisible, stop centering themselves, step out of the spotlight, and let other kinds of people exist, such as women, or homosexuals.
The founder of the Trans Day of Visibility, Rachel Crandall-Crocker, became impossible to see at midnight. Hallelujah, our eyeballs turn to h…
