Transgender Visibility Day

I didn’t get out today, I’m still working up to the point where Becky will be getting back out and about again, but I’m on the path.

 

This picture was pre-COVID, at one of the last events I worked just before we started locking down last March.

 

I don’t wear a TG badge and generally just hope to be another one of the women I work with, while working at these events, but I’m still being visible regardless of whether anyone there notices me or not. (and I’m sure I’m occasionally noticed, even when I can see no visible indications of that.)

 

So even when I’m not looking to bring a lot of attention to myself and generally try to be low key, It is being visible because I am out and about and interacting with the public, as every TG person should be able to do safely and proudly, if they want too.

 

It is being visible because I am there and being part of my community and not limiting myself to our once dark closets.

 

I’m being visible because others in our community see what “we“ are doing and believe they too can live a bigger and brighter TG existence than folks who came before us in earlier years.

 

It’s been a multi-generational struggle and I suspect it will be going on, long after I hang up my heels for the last time too.

 

My hope today is that now that we are once again on a better course here in the US, we will continue to see better and better days in the future.

 

While my days of being visible become more and more numbered as the days and years go on, I believe that with some effort and force of will, we will continue to see our freedom to be out and about and live our lives, as our other fellow human beings do, expanded. (Just today the DOD published its latest guidance on TG members in the US Military, a broad expansion since the dark days of the last guy.)

 

Stay safe and be well.

 

Done