Transgender Day of Visibility

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Artwork

Marsha P. Johnson

By: Robin Venter

Marsha P. Johnson was an American gay liberation activist/advocate for gay rights. Johnson was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969

Gay Activists by EB

By: EB

Those who challenge society are truly heroic.

Marsha P. Johnson

By: Elliot Rodriguez

I wanted to created a portrait of Marsha to show my appreciation for her. Being a transgender individual myself, Marsha is a person who I greatly look up to as a role model.

Inspiration

By: Alex Hunt

Stories

Danica Roem

By: Kathryn Atwood

Danica Roem is the first transgender elected official in the state of Virginia.

Jazz Jennings

By: Sophie White

Jazz Jennings, a transgender woman and a television personality, is the youngest person to have become a transgender figure.

Lili Elbe

By: Eren Knudsen

Lili Elbe was one of the first transgender women to receive sex reassignment surgery.

Films

Janet Miller

By: The Working Group

Janet Miller leads her students to stand up for their LGBT peers.

The belly dancer donning a beard to protest LGBT abuse in Egypt

By: Cormac O'Brien

The 25-year-old, who is completing her masters at Cardiff University in Wales, has helped many asylum seekers access higher education in Britain – something she is passionate about after spending several "heartbreaking" years unable to study.

T(he)y

By: Caroline Callender & Silver Liftin

Each day, different people experience and view the world through entirely different lenses, based on those identities. Often, we forget that this is the case.

The Toothmans

By: Hansen Bursic

Deb and Jim Toothman and their transgender daughter Cooper Toothman, talk about their struggles with acceptance both within their family and in the community.