INTERNATIONAL TRANS VISIBILITY DAY. This Friday, March 31, marks the 14th edition of the International Day which celebrates the transgender community, known as TDOV.
[Mis à jour le 31 mars 2023 à 13h52] The annual event to celebrate the transgender community and call out the discrimination faced by transgender people around the world is being held this Friday, March 31. On this day, many transgender personalities are mobilizing on social networks (Twitter, instagram, FacebookTumblr) by posting selfies or personal stories, and associations are campaigning for greater awareness of the difficulties faced by transgender people, young and old, in terms of discrimination, administrative difficulties and transphobic violence.
In Morlaix in Finistère in Brittany, for example, a public reading on the theme of health among transgender people is organized this Friday between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on the place des hostages in the city of the Viaduct by the LGBTQI + association of the city. For spokesperson Laurane, whose remarks were reported by The Telegram, “it is important to talk about it and that caregivers know that in consultation, with transgender people, they can be led to see things that they do not suspect”. At 6 p.m., the University of the Littoral Côte d’Opale is organizing a meeting in Boulogne-sur-Mer, accessible by video zoom, to discuss the subject and possibly ask questions. As for the educational Instagram accounts to follow in France, we will not overlook benevolence_in_spray, Aggressively Transor Translovestories.
What story behind the International Day of Transgender Visibility?
The first International Transgender Day of Visibility dates back to March 31, 2009, at the initiative of transgender activist Rachel Crandall from Michigan, who created the event in response to the only memorial day for people then-existing Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors transgender victims of hate killings. The International Day of Transgender Visibility is dedicated to celebrating living members of the transgender community, for a better deconstruction of gender stereotypes. The event, since run by Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER), has been celebrated internationally, including in Ireland and Scotland in 2014, and in France since 2018.
The International Day of Transgender Visibility, also called TDOV (for Trans Day of Visibility) on social networks, has been organized in Paris since 2018 by theInter-LGBTPari-T, the LGBT center of Paris and Île-de-Franceassociations Bi’Cause And MAG Youth LGBT. Demonstrations usually take place on the Coccinelle promenade in the 18e district, because it bears the name of the transgender artist Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy (1931-2006), known as Ladybird, born Jacques Charles Dufresnoy, the first French personality to have changed her marital status.