She sewed five quiet colors into a flag now in the Smithsonian.

Monica Helms — trans Navy veteran — designed the transgender Pride flag in 1999 and gave the original to a national record no directive can fully erase. Light blue, pink, white. The symmetry was deliberate: turn it any way, it's always correct.
They can scrub a building. They can't un-sew the thing.
#TransRights #TransPride #MonicaHelms #TransFlag #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #TransgenderDayOfVisibility #Veterans #Photography #History #Solidarity https://twp.ai/4hsUGG

Idaho’s governor forces doctors & teachers to out trans youth despite abuse risks

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/brad-little-forced-trans-outing

It's a pretty nice description of my gender actually. Gender? I'll have none of it!

#TransgenderDayOfVisibility #tdov #lgbtqia #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #queer #intersex #asexual #agender #genderfluid #nonbinary #ubahn #berlin

Transgender woman defies Kansas bathroom law inside state Capitol

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/trans-woman-kansas-capitol-bathroom

For transgender day of visibility we attended a showing of the TRUK Documentary, we’ll go down in history. Where we took part in a Q and A. #transgenderdayofvisibility

White House denigrates non-cisgender people on Trans Day of Visibility

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/white-house-trans-day-visibility

Idaho governor signs law making transgender bathroom use a felony

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/idaho-trans-bathroom-bill-signed

I hear we're doing visibility?

This was me yesterday, for TDOV (It’s already April 1 here in Australia) sitting in front of the worlds largest trans flag. Photo taken by the wonderful @supakaity.

Today is 9 years since I came out to my then 11 year old kid, and tomorrow is 9 years since I started medically transitioning.

I was 41 years old then. Trans awareness was just on the upkick. Everyone knew Caitlyn Jenner. Laverne Cox had appeared on the cover of TIME magazine… Yet I was still the first trans person most people had met.

At the time, my understanding of gender was very binary, and my own goals pretty much consisted of “Get transition out of the way, blend back in to the world, and get on with life without much talking about the trans thing”

But, I went to my first Pride, and I was changed forever. I was surrounded by my people, which wasn’t something I’d ever felt before. And with time, I came to have a more nuanced understanding of gender, and the artificial nature of the binary. And I also came to appreciate my own queerness, and completely lost the desire to blend in and hide amongst the society that had made it so hard to accept myself in the first place.

And now, I can’t help myself. I run gender diverse events, I create spaces and help foster queer communities. I stand loud and visible and proud, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I see all of you glorious bitches, bastards and ne’er-do-wells, and I love you all!

#trans #transgender #tdov #transgenderDayOfVisibility

I hear we're doing visibility?

This was me yesterday, for TDOV (It’s already April 1 here in Australia) sitting in front of the worlds largest trans flag. Photo taken by the wonderful @[email protected].

Today is 9 years since I came out to my then 11 year old kid, and tomorrow is 9 years since I started medically transitioning.

I was 41 years old then. Trans awareness was just on the upkick. Everyone knew Caitlyn Jenner. Laverne Cox had appeared on the cover of TIME magazine… Yet I was still the first trans person most people had met.

At the time, my understanding of gender was very binary, and my own goals pretty much consisted of “Get transition out of the way, blend back in to the world, and get on with life without much talking about the trans thing”

But, I went to my first Pride, and I was changed forever. I was surrounded by my people, which wasn’t something I’d ever felt before. And with time, I came to have a more nuanced understanding of gender, and the artificial nature of the binary. And I also came to appreciate my own queerness, and completely lost the desire to blend in and hide amongst the society that had made it so hard to accept myself in the first place.

And now, I can’t help myself. I run gender diverse events, I create spaces and help foster queer communities. I stand loud and visible and proud, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I see all of you glorious bitches, bastards and ne’er-do-wells, and I love you all!

I hear we're doing visibility?

This was me yesterday, for TDOV (It’s already April 1 here in Australia) sitting in front of the worlds largest trans flag. Photo taken by the wonderful @[email protected].

Today is 9 years since I came out to my then 11 year old kid, and tomorrow is 9 years since I started medically transitioning.

I was 41 years old then. Trans awareness was just on the upkick. Everyone knew Caitlyn Jenner. Laverne Cox had appeared on the cover of TIME magazine… Yet I was still the first trans person most people had met.

At the time, my understanding of gender was very binary, and my own goals pretty much consisted of “Get transition out of the way, blend back in to the world, and get on with life without much talking about the trans thing”

But, I went to my first Pride, and I was changed forever. I was surrounded by my people, which wasn’t something I’d ever felt before. And with time, I came to have a more nuanced understanding of gender, and the artificial nature of the binary. And I also came to appreciate my own queerness, and completely lost the desire to blend in and hide amongst the society that had made it so hard to accept myself in the first place.

And now, I can’t help myself. I run gender diverse events, I create spaces and help foster queer communities. I stand loud and visible and proud, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I see all of you glorious bitches, bastards and ne’er-do-wells, and I love you all!