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Trans visibility has always been important, but not always possible. Today it is possible but also, in many ways, has never been more important.
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of activists over the decades, trans and non-binary people are now more visible than ever. We owe a lot to our community elders who fought for rights before there was ever a chance, who were yelled at and spit on and beaten for doing so.
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We are now in a place where our voices are beginning to be heard. Trans people are gracing the covers of magazines, winning awards, featured positively in media, even producing that media. Some of us are loved by our families, keeping our jobs, living our lives. There is hope.
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It's Trans Day of Visibility (#TDOV/#TDOV2022) again and, y'all, we're three months and a couple hundred bills deep in anti-trans legislation of various flavors. Let's break it down.
Sports bills: disqualifying trans girls from playing on girls' sports teams. Utah overrode a veto to pass one of these bills to block the single trans girl athlete in the state from playing. Utah's own governor said it was an ugly, low blow.
Commentary: (1) trans girls and women statistically aren't dominating, (2) sports has always favored inborn advantages and if trans women ever do dominate, more power to them!!, (3) any filter for trans ppl catches cis ppl too and is degrading and inhumane (see: Caster Semenya)
Good morning! It’s #TDOV22 #TDOV2022 #TDOV and I’m in #Berlin, researching the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, (Institute of Sexology/Sexual Science) that operated from 1918-1933. My next book is about its support of #trans lives. See my @sciam article: scientificamerican.com/article/the-fo…
2/ One thing I’m critically aware of is just how much of my research doesn’t feel like #history: progressive movement for inclusivity and understanding undermined by conservative, right wing (nationalist, later fascist) attacks to ‘protect’ by criminalizing LBGTQ #TDOV #TDOV2022
3/ Nazis attacked the Institute in 1933, burning the library in the famous book burn. But the attack didn’t start there. It started years earlier, by the slow creep of hatred, fear mongering—AND LEGISLATION. We can’t let it happen again. #TDOV #TDOV2022 elemental.medium.com/anti-trans-bil…
