Transgender Day of Visibility: The day explained, what it means for the trans community
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Transgender Day of Visibility is celebrated annually on March 31. It's a day where many come together to support the trans community.
  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
    535·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
      277·
      3 months ago

      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/

      • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
        44·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
          72·
          3 months ago

          I do understand your point, but I have to give the same response as what I’ve given those who complain about the acronym being too long or changing too frequently: there’s no executive council in charge of the queer community. George Takei and Ellen aren’t meeting every week to add another letter and holiday. These things just happen, for better or worse.