{"id":682,"date":"2022-03-31T12:17:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/?p=682"},"modified":"2022-03-31T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:17:19","slug":"valuable-reading-for-the-transgender-day-of-visibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2022\/03\/31\/valuable-reading-for-the-transgender-day-of-visibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Valuable reading for the Transgender Day of Visibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 31 marks the International Transgender Day of Visibility, and the CHASI team would like to reiterate our wholehearted support and celebration of our trans friends, family, and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>We also urge cisgender individuals to invest some time today listening to trans voices, and to take the initiative of educating yourself on ways to support and celebrate trans people in our communities and work to dismantle the systemic barriers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-683\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-683\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2022\/03\/Illustration-from-UN-report.png\" alt=\"Illustration of cartoon figures crowded around a central figure, discussing and trying to assign gender to them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2022\/03\/Illustration-from-UN-report.png 1505w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2022\/03\/Illustration-from-UN-report-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2022\/03\/Illustration-from-UN-report-1024x603.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/files\/2022\/03\/Illustration-from-UN-report-768x452.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration from the UN Independent Expert&#8217;s Report on Gender Identity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An accessible place to begin is the recent UN Independent Expert&#8217;s Report on Gender Identity, embedded below. We encourage you to take a few moments to read and reflect.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1SyBmXtKj5qc_U-Vc0xmzDjSKZynPUn8k\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A key word in today&#8217;s observance is <em>visibility<\/em>. It is critical to understand not just the experiences of transgender people, but also <em>why <\/em>it matters that their experiences are visible. The following articles explain why it is of vital importance that trans people are seen, heard, and supported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reports.hrc.org\/trans-lives-positive-visibility?_ga=2.54544555.1623177533.1648574610-287075019.1648574610\"><em>Trans Lives &amp; Positive Visibility<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonewall.org.uk\/about-us\/blog\/trans-day-visibility-global-perspective\"><em>Trans Day of Visibility: A Global Perspective<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 31 marks the International Transgender Day of Visibility, and the CHASI team would like to reiterate our wholehearted support and celebration of our trans friends, family, and colleagues. We also urge cisgender individuals to invest some time today listening to trans voices, and to take the initiative of educating yourself on ways to support &#8230; <a title=\"Valuable reading for the Transgender Day of Visibility\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2022\/03\/31\/valuable-reading-for-the-transgender-day-of-visibility\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observances","tag-international-transgender-day-of-visibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}