trans day is every single day

Happy trans day, to those who are invisibilized (in certain situations, to their families, to their own self even) you are worthy of being celebrated in full spectrum. Your transness is sacred. Happy trans day to all the people who are misread, mis-identified, mis-recognized and or threatened because of crossing gender boundaries. Happy trans day to all people who have not been seen in their excellence, wisdom or truth. To all the people who don’t want to be trans activists and just want to be.

Happy trans day to all the babies that fight every single day to receive basic decency, space for fluidity, and change. The babies that embrace themselves at all costs. Who refuse to be diminished in all spaces. Who show up bountifully as they are.

Happy trans day to all trans people who create space for us to shine. Who see the defects and resist and re-arrange. To those that transform, recognize and disrupt.

Happy trans day to all people who feel limited by the word trans. To the people that feel they are more than transgender, who trans, cross, dance, abolish, recreate, rediscover,, abolish, weave, and expand gender. To all the people who live outside of the binary between cis and trans, to the people whose frames of creativity exist outside of colonial, white, prescription.

Happy trans day to all people who do not resist being prescribed and mis-identified. To the people who have not defended their dignity. To the people who have given up the fight. To the people who are too exhausted to publicly call themselves in as who they are. To the people who were told that it is a weakness and not worth celebrating - instead of a radical act of self protection and removal of cis imposed expectations.

Happy trans day to trans people that are told that they aspire to be cis. To the trans people that are told they need to transition to be valid. To the trans people told they need to pass. To the trans people who are constantly boxed back in andmade to question themselves.

Happy trans day to every single trans person. To every single person who has been mis-recognized, and who has felt confined by language, washroom stalls, passports, ma’ams and sirs, unseen for who they are, told their god hated them, told their presence was inappropriate, harassed and left behind in the group. 

Happy trans day to the people who have had to leave behind their family of origin, their friends, their religions for the safety and protection of their truest soul.

Happy trans day to all people who have a spark of knowing themselves as different from, more than, or beyond any unchosen identity, name and concept put into their bodies and spirits. Happy trans day to all those who have used what they are not - to move towards where they are headed - even if it is uncharted, unnamed and never seen before on earth.