Each year on March 31, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) to raise awareness about transgender people. It is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, while also drawing attention to the poverty, discrimination, and violence the community faces.

International TDOV was created in 2010 by trans advocate Rachel Crandall. Crandall, the head of Transgender Michigan, created TDOV in response to the overwhelming majority of media stories about transgender people being focused on violence. She hoped to create a day where people could re-focus on celebrating the lives of transgender people, empowering them to live authentically, while still acknowledging that due to discrimination, not every trans person can or wants to be visible.

Given that a minority of Americans say they personally know someone who’s transgender, the vast majority of the public learns about trans people from the media. This is a problem because, as shown in the Netflix documentary Disclosure, the media has overwhelmingly misrepresented, mischaracterized, and stereotyped trans people since the invention of film. These false depictions have indisputably shaped the cultural understanding of who trans people are and have taught the public how to react to and treat trans people in their lives. It's going to take a lot of work to undo the harm caused by these depictions.

However, society is becoming more accepting as trans people feel increasingly comfortable and confident being publicly and fully themselves, and media representations of their lives begin to improve. This is especially apparent in the generational familiarity of trans people. [more]

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New estimates show 300,000 youth ages 13-17 identify as transgender in the US
Approximately 1.6 million people ages 13 and older—0.6% of the population—identify as transgender in the United States, according to new estimates from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. This includes 1.4% of youth ages 13-17 (about 300,000 youth) and 0.5% of adults (about 1.3 million adults).

Transgender individuals are younger on average than the general U.S. population. Nearly one in five people who identify as transgender (18%) are ages 13-17, compared to less than one in ten (8%) who are ages 13-17 in the general U.S. population. [snip]

“Advances in gender identity data collection over the past five years have provided a more accurate picture of youth in the U.S. who identify as transgender. Previously, we could only estimate that based on adult data,” said lead author Jody L. Herman, Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute. “These new estimates show us that current policy debates regarding access to gender-affirming care and the ability to participate in team sports likely impact more youth than we previously thought.” [more]

Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
With news that FBI has arrived at Pence's home for classified materials search (h/t @JesseRodriguez)...

Reminder of this new reporting last night - from @maggieNYT

@GlennThrush - indicating some tension between Justice Department and Pence team on this.👇
https://nytimes.com/2023/02/09/us/politics/pence-subpoena-trump.html

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw · 17h
👀 This is new:

“Comes at a moment of rising tension between the Pence team and [DOJ] over the discussions about searching” Pence’s home.

“Pence’s advisers were incensed by the disclosure of a pending search … and blamed the department for leaking details to pressure them.” twitter.com/maggienyt/stat…

11:11 AM · Feb 10, 2023

Kate @_LOVEINVAIN
Replying to @maggieNYT
Maggie peddles hyperbolic piece about JackSmith’s “most Aggressive move yet”-but fails to mention Pence did a WSJ interview discussing exact same questions Jack Smith wants on record-UnderOath.

MAGGIE- there IS no Exec Privilege when Pence has publicly talked about it.
9:08 PM · Feb 9, 2023

DanniDunn @wyo2step
Replying to @maggieNYT
The DOJ subpoena for Pence’s testimony under oath is not aggressive. A book excerpt cannot substitute for the whole truth, especially since anything can be put in a book. Statements under oath are very different than a book excerpt.
11:45 AM · Feb 10, 2023