Sunday, March 31, is Transgender Day of Visibility.
Join the 14 Wing Greenwood Defence Team Pride Advisory Organization as members, and the wider 14 Wing community, raise the transgender flag to celebrate the wing’s and the greater Defence Team’s messages of inclusion and belonging. The flag will be raised at the main gate at 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 2 to mark Transgender Day of Visibility. Everyone is welcome.
Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is internationally marked, raising awareness since 2010 about transgender people, celebrating the lives and contributions of trans people, and drawing attention to the poverty, discrimination and violence the community faces.
TDOV is an opportunity to empower trans people to live authentically, while still acknowledging not every trans person can or wants to be visible. Society is becoming more accepting, as trans people feel increasingly comfortable and confident being publicly and fully themselves, and media representations of their lives begin to improve.
Anti-LGBTQ activists target trans people, especially children. This anti-trans hypervisibility harms all trans people, being demonized and scapegoated by politicians and in many media outlets. That’s why it’s still necessary for trans people to be seen through authentic, diverse and accurate stories which reflect the actual lived experiences of trans people; both for themselves and for those people who believe they’ve never met a trans person. This year for TDOV, advocates and organizations are working on initiatives to counteract the disinformation campaign targeting the trans community.
