Trans Day of Visibility: Visibility is Representation
Below is something colleagues and i wrote for Transgender Day of Visibility. It is posted on our internal website but wanted to share with a wider audience. I am thankful to work for a company that invites and supports this kind of open communication. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The phrase - visibility is representation - (or an iteration of it) has been used for a long time but with even more regularity in the last few years. We have come to see that visibility for underrepresented or misrepresented groups makes a difference. A lot of minority groups focus on visibility. But why? What does “visibility” do? What does “visibility” for the trans community do? March 31 is Trans Day of Visibility so to start let’s first start with what Wikipedia says about Trans Day of Visibility: International Transgender Day of Visibility is an annual event occurring on March 31 dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising