Trans Day of Visibility

Today is the Trans Day of Visibility - see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.  

In response to an excellent message of support from my home state’s Minister for Equality (see here), I sent the following message: 

Dear Minister,

Thank you for this important message on this day.

Ever since I began my advocacy for trans+ people in the late 90s, a series of Labor governments has consistently provided excellent support for the trans+ communities, and I wish to acknowledge that.

Thank you.

It is sad that the need for support still continues, with the global right wing backlash against inclusion often choosing trans+ people as their targets - just last night I had concerns about a friend, but it turned out to fortunately be just an accidental - and thus garbled - text message.

Thus, support for trans+ people is important, but so too are the measures you are working on regarding issues such as vilification - the stochastic terrorism of accusing trans+ people of being _ abusers is, in my opinion, likely to lead to a serious, possibly even fatal, assault on a trans+ person who has been triggered by the lies on those placards - and the lack of apparent action against those signs.

Hopefully that will change once we have better protection.

Today is supposed to be a day of celebration; unfortunately, after the scare last night, I will be mourning those I have lost to hate - especially the vicious hate of deliberate misgendering.

But I will also be remembering the aid we have and are receiving from this and previous Labor governments of Victoria.

So, again, thank you.

 

If they are of any use of interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post. 

 

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Remember: we need to be more human being rather than human doing, and all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering”.

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