#trans day of visibility 2023

[esli-art]

HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY! 🏳️‍⚧️🤍🩷✨️

Few sketches of Elle Argent (Yasmin Finney) from Heartstopper to celebrate!

If you're a trans person reading this, I'm sending you all my love 💖💖

[bottledmagpie]

Elle and Jimmy.

Happy trans visibility day to everyone under the umbrella!

[bathtub-frog]

Trans woman Monica Helms designed the Transgender Pride Flag in 1997. The light blue traditionally represents baby boys, and pink represents baby girls. The white in the middle signifies transitioning, or those who have an undefined gender. The way the flag is constructed - blue, pink, white, pink, blue - means that there's no way you can hang the flag "wrong" - Because there's no wrong way to be yourself.

[winguontheweb]

I was planning on taking a break today but I felt a calling too strong to ignore! Happy Trans Day of Visibility! We will NOT be erased.

[critterpdf]

didnt get this finished until late last night because work tuckered me out BUT here's some art that's half for tdov and half a celebration of a wacky little milestone!! it's kinda goofy but this year marks 10 years since i've been out as trans in some capacity which is! cool to think about. it may be fucking rough out there rn but we exist and we will continue to exist. im bad at words but to all my trans siblings!!! we're powerful and i love us all

[spaceyqueer]

it's trans day of visibility and I used to post selfies of myself on trans day of visibility, but while my face is still probably easy to find I'm not going to share my face today because even if you can see the image of me, the reality of my life right now is that I and many other trans people are invisible. our concerns are invisible, our pain is invisible, our struggles are invisible, while cis people who actively discriminate against us get every camera facing them.

I was referred to the NHS gender identity services in early 2017. I was on the waiting list for gender affirming care until September 2021, which is when I received my first appointment close to five years after I was first referred. After my first appointment, which was an assessment (of which you have to have two, usually, before you receive any medical treatment). I was then booked in for my second appointment with a psychologist in January 2022, but was never actually sent the appointment email (and since this was during the lockdown period, all apointmnets were online) thus I missed the appointment. I called on the day and I called multiple times afterwards before I was finally told that since I'd missed the appointment I would have to wait for when they could fit me in. This turned out to be another six months later, in July 2022, nearly a year after my first appointment. During this appointment, I expressed an interest in hormone therapy and was encouraged away from it and instead got an appointment with a speech therapist. Except, yet again, I never got the appointment email, despite me checking multiple times that they had both my correct home address and my correct email, which they did. Another appointment missed, without even a hint it ever existed. I contacted them, and got told I would have a new one, as well as an appointment with the psychologist from before. I finally got a new appointment with speech therapy in February this year, and an appointment with a different psychologist. That means over a span of about a year and a half I've had a grand total of four appointments. And I've just been confirmed that if I want testosterone, the earliest they'll be able to get any support for me, pending blood tests, is November. Which will be over two years since I initially got off the waiting list.

I'm lucky. My sister, who is also trans, was referred to a brand new gender identity clinic by the NHS and informed she was off the waiting list, expecting her first appointment only to then be left in limbo, as she was told she would be waiting for her first appointment indefinitely. We have no explanation as to why, only guesses that the clinic wasn't fully prepared for the waiting list they received as other people were referred to the sudden new availability. Meanwhile, other trans people I know have been denied referrals, denied hormones, or been waiting so long their mental health declined severely. A few have lost their lives to the long wait, caught in limbo. All this while our government talks about the 'concern' for trans children, and Rishi Sunak publicly agrees with outing trans children to their parents, irrespective of how dangerous it is because 'keeping parents in the dark' is obviously much worse then exposing children to potential abuse, homelessness, conversion therapy (which is still legal in the UK for trans people) or even death. All of this without consulting trans children at all. Pop-culture figures like J K Rowling talk about how women are being neglected as a result of trans rights, while conveniently ignoring the high rates of transphobic and misogynistic hate crimes directed at trans women. 'TERF' Island is a recurring joke about the UK but I find it harder and harder to laugh, even at my own expense

I am 'lucky'. My family (mostly) supports me, I have had appointments with the gender services, and pass enough as a cis woman (despite that making me very uncomfortable, as a non-binary person) that I don't get much harassment on a regular basis. And yet I am still invisible. My coworkers talk about their criticisms of 'trans ideology'. 'Friends' have made jokes about bottom surgery, and how I'd be attractive if I did have it. I've had to ask HR for more training on trans folks, because we've faced abuse from the public for our company being supportive of trans people. I long for a day when this is better. And perhaps on this day I should be sharing a happy story but I couldn't. I really couldn't, and I apologise for that.

I am invisible, and with that I am safe, but I hope for a day when we are visible AND safe.

[raichukaiju]

"In the face of extermination, say "fuck you"" - Gerard Way

Trans people are as luminous and enduring as the stars, and no matter what anyone tries, we will never be erased. We've always been here and always will be~✨

In a world that seems to be trying harder by the day to see us divided and destroyed, we need each other more than ever. Love each other louder, amplify those voices that may be struggling to be heard, keep each other afloat. Cliché as it may be to say, we truly are stronger together~

Here's my fat, disabled trans body being as visible as I think Tumblr will let me get away with sharing. Today and every day, I'm choosing to love myself, to find euphoria in the small things and celebrate how far I've come since I first came out back in 2014. Even on the hardest days, I'm proud of who I am and that's something nothing and nobody can do a damn thing to take from me or from anyone~

✨⚧️🏳️‍⚧️♂️✨

{ He/they }

[polyamorouspunk]

Trump got indicted for TDOV <3

[j-amatus]

happy trans day of visibility! i got top surgery recently!! this has been me for the past few weeks

[meat-pvppet]

a day late for me but yea!

[rosewind2007]

Happy Trans Day Of Visibility!

[decovulous]

it's tdov 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[figged-newtons]

🏳️‍⚧️✨️🔮 Happy Trans Day Of Visibility 🔮✨️🏳️‍⚧️

[lichen-punk]

not super feeling real selfieish thjs tdov, between severe dysphoria and what’s going on in the world right now the present is less than ideal, so instead here’s a future-portrait by my talented boyfriend @spiffyflypieart

[otakusheep15]

Happy Trans Visibility Day to all of my fellow trans people! Reminder to support your favorite trans creators (and trans people in general obvi) in any ways you can!

[sunflowerpirateart]

Happy TransDayOfVisibility everyone!

If you're a transphobe, get out of here, get lost, this isn't for you

You can find these lil guys and many more on my redbubble~