I asked a few friends of mine to share their experiences with being trans and what visibility means to them.
A special thanks to everyone who shared their experiences:
Narcisse Valentry
Rev. Monica Joy Cross
Mary Jane French
Maelstrom Pullman
Kyrene Ivey Cruce
Kelly Gibson
Dahlia Delu Belle
Crystal Storm
Music by:
Can You See – Real Heroes
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Vampyres – Pretty Human
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hi intergalactic trans liberty Juliet
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Mylan that’s me
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today is transgender day of visibility
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for those of you that don’t know and
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it’s a day that’s kind of really
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important to me because I’m really
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visible Tran so I thought that today
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would be a good opportunity to talk to
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few of my friends in the trans community
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and ask them about their disability
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visibility visibility disability
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visibility it means something different
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to everybody I think it means to speak
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out for us to me visibility is a chance
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to live fiercely visibility to me means
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achieving social normalcy disability to
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me means a reassurance feeling accepted
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as a living being being visible is
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important to me means lending your
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confidence to someone else’s my
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disability is my rebirth being visible
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to me means being able to be myself
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unapologetically to be who I always
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wanted to be being able to simply be the
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person I am means I can bring the best
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of myself to make me be at certain times
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it means rejecting who we were or forced
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to pretend to be being able to be me
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shutting all the layers I was forced to
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wear for years those years were all but
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wasted I focused my efforts on being
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invisible to avoid confrontation I was
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really obsessed with blending in it I
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sacrificed myself on the dark altar of a
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God that did not exist for others it’s
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about fighting the bigotry that we
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experience in society just being visibly
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trans almost weapon eise’s our bodies
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for a resistance people will assume like
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though they’ll get they’ll gender one of
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us correctly and the other one
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incorrectly
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I’m simply soon as a person but my
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transness that’s no longer the defining
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characteristics by which I’m measured
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gets me the confidence on my own place
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in society when there are others similar
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to myself because they’re way more
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certain that we are gay than they are
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about our which is a fair assumption
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yeah and other times it’s just about
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showing people who are maybe still in
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the closet or not sure that it’s okay to
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be trans being able to be seen by those
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who want to be seen but maybe can’t yet
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I’ve been majority of us can’t pass and
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I hope that being out and visible and
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happy Danielle offer view of normalcy to
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those who might not be ready to show
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themselves to the world but that’s or
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the beauty standard were frequently held
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to that it’s okay
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and it’ll be okay I can be an example
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for other people who might be struggling
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with their own gender identity
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and I hope that the way that I am helps
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other people too
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if me being visible just helps one
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person it’s worth everything being
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visible when you’re someone like me can
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be helpful but mostly I think it’s just
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about being ourselves and getting to be
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happy being who we are
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I like being trans I can contribute
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better in my social life profession and
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nearly at the aspect of my life to be
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who I always wanted to be and I like
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being visibly trans I like the look that
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I have just being able to interact
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without being afraid is I came out as
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non-binary a little over a year ago I
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changed my name to Maelstrom a little
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over a month ago
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and being able to share my authentic
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self and my life with the rest of the
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world I’m happier now living in a place
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where people accept me for who I am
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you know I’m not like other girls and I
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really like that I like being different
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that is absolutely the best gift that I
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have ever been given and we’ll never
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give it’s an honor to get to be a part
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of this community and to share my
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experiences with everybody and I feel
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privileged to keep company with the
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amazing people that I do well thank you
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for letting me be visible thank you for
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seeing me thank you
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thank you thank you
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