Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, an important day that serves as a reminder to the LGBT community that we’re all in this together! The same way women were often excluded in the civil rights movement, the T’s in our queer family are still sometimes treated like red-headed step children. Today is the perfect day to stand up and say it’s not ok.
Of course, someone else can express the importance of this much better than I. Here’s what Dr. John Corvino of Wayne State University had to say about this day:
Our discomfort around the issue—I know I’m not alone in this—means that we’ve got some learning to do. Bravo to those trans people willing to come out and teach us.
Some gay people wonder why we get lumped with the transgender community at all. Sexual orientation is one thing, they say, and gender identity is another.
That’s true as far as it goes, and perhaps it’s better to talk about our overlapping communities than about a single GLBT community.
Still, the alliance makes sense insofar as both (overlapping) groups suffer from rigid social expectations about sex and gender. Compare “If you’re born biologically male, you should grow up to be a man” with “If you’re born biologically male, you should grow up to love a woman.” The similarities between the two inferences seem to outweigh the differences.
Word.
(Via Queerty)
