International Transgender Day of Visibility is honoured every year on 31st March to celebrate transgender people around the globe and the courage it takes to live openly and authentically, while also raising awareness around the discrimination trans people still face.
The holiday was founded by US-based transgender activist Rachel Crandall of Michigan in 2009, as a reaction to the lack of LGBT holidays celebrating transgender people. Until then the only well-known transgender-centred holiday was the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which mourned the murders of transgender people, but did not acknowledge and celebrate living members of the transgender community. The first International Transgender Day of Visibility was held on 31st March 2009.
Transgender people come from all walks of life, representing all ages, racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as faith backgrounds, and today is about celebrating this.
For more information on International Transgender Day of Visibility, check out: https://www.hrc.org/resources/international-transgender-day-of-visibility
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