The Dark Side of Trans “Visibility”

The "transgender tipping point" was a welcome milestone—it's also made trans adults and youth more visible targets

...one of my close friends, who is trans and who hadn’t heard of the holiday (International Trans Day of Visibility), responded with a scowl when I told her about it.

“My goal isn’t visibility, my goal is survival,” she said. “The Jews were extremely visible in 1930s Europe, how much good did it do them?”

Please read the rest of Arthur Chu's thought-provoking article on Salon.

Wearing Boston Proper.

Dave Thomas Brown on stage in The Legend of Georgia McBride (NYC 2015).