Today is observed as the Transgender Day of Visibility.
What I think perhaps we really need is some sort of Cisgender Day of Visibility, a day where cis folks like myself somehow had our cis-ness made visible to us. One day a year where the experience of being cis was not invisibly ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ but a visible part of life, a construct of society that is provisional and subject to change. A day when cis people saw and recognized that being cis is not an experience everybody has, that it affects a variety of aspects of life from birth to death, in a variety of ways, and that cis-ness is a part of our identity in ways we don’t often think about.
Well, maybe tomorrow.
Today, though, is the Transgender Day of Visibility, and as such, a day to re-commit myself to making the spaces I inhabit, real and virtual, as safe and welcoming for trans folk to be visible as they are for cis folk.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.