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Here's how you can celebrate Trans Day of Visibility this year

Texas Public Radio | By Kathleen Creedon

Published March 31, 2022 at 11:42 AM CDT

A protester wrapped in a Trans Pride flag holds a 'Never Stop Fighting' placard during the trans rights demonstration. Protesters gathered outside Downing Street demanding an end to discrimination against the trans community, better support from the government against hate, and improvements to trans healthcare waiting times. (Photo by Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany. — A protester wrapped in a Trans Pride flag holds a 'Never Stop Fighting' placard during the trans rights demonstration. Protesters gathered outside Downing Street demanding an end to discrimination against the trans community, better support from the government against hate, and improvements to trans healthcare waiting times.

Thursday is Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV). The day is honored annually and internationally on March 31 to celebrate trans and nonbinary people.

It's also a time many organizations, like the Human Rights Campaign, acknowledge the violence and discrimination trans people still face.

Last year was the deadliest year on record for trans people, many of whom were Black or Latinx. Nearly 60 trans or gender nonconforming people were fatally shot or killed by other violent means in 2021.

Across the nation, including in Texas, policy makers have introduced new laws in 2022 that question gender-affirming care for trans youth. Texas leaders have described the form of health care as "child abuse" and have called for investigations into the parents, teachers and other adults in trans children's lives.

This TDOV, here's how you can support trans people locally and nationwide.

Local Resources

San Antonio Pride Center Safe Space Fund
San Antonio Pride Center LGBTQ+ Emergency Fund
Trans Power SA
TANG: Trans and Non-binary Group
Binders for Brothers
TransAllies San Antonio
Texas Name and Gender Marker Change
PFLAG San Antonio
Black Futures Collective

Educational Resources

Books By Trans Authors

Becoming a Man by P. Carl
Sorted by Jackson Bird
All Boys Aren't Blue by George Matthew Johnson
Fairest by Meredith Talusan
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
How to Kill a City by P.E. Moskowitz
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
Vanishing New York by Jeremiah Moss
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

Podcasts

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