I’ve long thought being trans is a form of personal emancipation and personal liberation, it’s about having the courage of beautifully being your true self & celebrating it by being out and loud and being motherfucking proud!

I do distinctly remember when first attempting to transition the then mantra of fellow trans women being to do everything you could do to pass near enough as a cis woman and once you had had gender-reassignment-surgery to bunker down to live in stealth, because to them it seemed being trans was something to be ashamed about and the answer was to cower in the closet, they certainly didn’t take it well when I waltzed in with a revolutionary zeal saying bollocks to that bullshit because how are the fuck are we going to get any respect unless we take some visible pride in being ourselves and educate the world about being trans, well ha fucking ha bitches it seems I won the argument as today March 31st is now Trans Day of Visibility.

Of course this particular Trans Day of Visibility is hampered somewhat by the COVID-19 pandemic and the necessary lockdown in many countries around the globe to stem the spread of the virus, but it’s not as trans people can’t be visible online via social-media by posting photos and videos or writing blogs and articles giving personal perspectives on being trans as a means of taking pride in being trans and a means of educating and much more, there might be a global pandemic raging but it doesn’t mean trans people cease to exist, it doesn’t change the fact there are definitely millions of people out there around the world miserable as fuck because they’re trans but just don’t know they are trans which is one reason why trans visibly is so crucial. I absolutely hate hearing stories of trans women in particular who are trapped by circumstances from transitioning to be their true selves, its something that truly makes me mad as hell because I do remember the utter anguish I felt prior to transition and how at the time it was fucking up my life, I feel incredibly lucky in having eventually a decade ago liberated myself by successfully transitioning and though some have criticised me for having seemed not to care as much as I should about the plight of trans people, the plight of trans people is just as close to my heart as much as it always has been and I do see it as my duty to liberate as many trans people as I can just as Tempest Crane helped to liberate me.

yours truly

I actually took some photos of myself today and I love how I look and in fact I’ve never felt as much at peace with myself as I do now, this is what I want other trans people to feel because that will make a better life for them and a better life for those around them and ultimately a better world period, oh and yes trans people can have that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, ironically trans people seem to be making far more of a fuss about Trans Day of Visibility this year then they’ve done in previous years, maybe this is because various LGBTQ Pride events have been postponed or outrightly cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, maybe it’s because the COVID-19 pandemic is overshadowing just about everything else in this world there’s a legitimate fear the world will forget the plight of trans people, but whatever the reason I say it’s about fucking time trans people made more of a fuss about Trans Day of Visibility.

I’ve written in the past that the trans community weren’t marking Trans Day of Visibility as much as they do when it comes to Trans Day of Remembrance, it’s not as if I think we should ignore or belittle those trans people who’ve been killed as a consequence of transphobic hate-crimes, I’m under no illusion that trans people aren’t a seriously victimised minority for instance just this morning I was reading some bullshit about there being an appalling propaganda campaign of transphobic hate falsely purporting COVID-19 is being spread by talking to trans people, but at the same time we should be celebrating the strides trans people have made and continue to make despite all the transphobic bullshit we are continuously subjected to. I just look back to when I transitioned in 2010 and it’s like looking back into the dark ages when trans people were treated at best as a novelty, in just the 10 years since I successfully transitioned we’ve made massive strides despite the political establishment and the mainstream-news-media and gobshite radical feminists (who aren’t really feminists) all being stacked against us, sure there have been setbacks as there always will be but the overall trajectory for trans people is a positive one, just look at the visibility of trans people with the likes of Paris Lees and Munroe Bergdorf making regular appearances in the UK media and of course Caitlyn Jenner becoming a household name around the globe.

Of course Trans Day of Visibility has it’s malcontent naysayers from within the trans community, I’m sure somebody will respond to this by saying but India Willoughby said…, fuck India Willoughby and fuck the insecure uber conservative trans likes of Blaire White and Rose of Dawn who’s the British version of Blaire, they’re not representative of the trans community rather they’re just choking on sour grapes because they can no longer bully other trans women with their fascistic cis tick box of how trans women should be.