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1y ago

Transgender Day of Visibility March 31st 2024: How to celebrate and be an ally

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Transgender Day of Visibility: The day explained, what it means for the trans community

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return2ozma @lemmy.world

1y ago

Transgender Day of Visibility March 31st 2024: How to celebrate and be an ally

www.usatoday.com /story/news/nation/2024/03/31/transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/73123633007/

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Currently spending time in New orleans and there where floats and dancing in the streets everywhere. Wife and me loved the energy 🏳️‍⚧️
It was cool that is happened on the day celebrating Estor the goddess of springtime this year.
- sexual orientation ≠ gender identity
- Nobody said anything about sexual orientation?
- This has nothing to do with sexual orientation. It sounds you're lacking some information, would you like me to explain, or would you prefer to remain ignorant?
- Then don't look. You don't own visibility.
We have a whole month for this cause and it isn't March, it's June. It's bad to weaken branding of such a highly successful campaign.
- Transgender Day of Visibility has been going on for 15 years. Transgender Awareness month is in November. If you're talking about June for Pride month, that's different.
  Here's a great short film just released by PFLAG: https://pflag.org/piecesofme/
  
  I did not know. Thanks.
  I still think it would be more appropriate and effective to consolidate similar holidays/acknowledgements/celebrations/etc if the desire is to bring awareness.
  I already have a display planned for June to support the LGBT community; I'll stick with that for now. Despite the tone of my original post, I do support the cause.
  It's just easier and more effective if, in the case of LGBT celebrated in June, people and corporations jointly bring awareness and celebrate inclusiveness together to make a statement. Fracturing cohesiveness by alternative dates or sheer redundancy tends to weaken awareness campaigns, cause confusion and can actually, as evident in my post above, be a disservice to the message.

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