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Criticism

Effort to increase trans visibility have been criticized by Black abolitionists, who believe facile inclusion of trans persons in popular culture "leads to flattened understandings of Black trans life" and may endanger Black trans people. As abolitionist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy stated in 2019, "I don't really understand why we need a day of visibility, when for most of us, especially us Black girls, we are as visible as we need to be. Our visibility is getting us killed."^[1] Likewise, a trans South Asian collaborative, known as Darkmatter, expressed concern in 2015 that Black, indigenous, and other people of color lack the resources to safely be visible, so "instead of valorizing one type of trans visibility, let's challenge the standards of visibility themselves..."^[2]

Similarly, some scholars argue that over-exposure of trans people can result in erasure, by virtue of perpetuating stereotypes or reducing people to statistical measures.^[1] Besides the paradox of visibility as a physical risk, others question whether TDOV is offering a "sanitized image of transgender people" that reinstantiates socioeconomic and racial exclusions.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Janak, Jaden. "(Trans) gendering Abolition: Black Trans Geographies, Art, and the Problem of Visibility." GLQ 28, no. 2 (2022): 259-276. TDOV discussed on p.259.
^ Johnson, Ryan. "Trans Futures: A Consideration of Transgender Youth, Transgender Visibility, and Transgender Citizenship." PhD diss., The Ohio State University, 2015. pp.22-23
^ Redburn, Kate. "The Visibility Trap." University of Chicago Law Review 89, no. 6 (2022): pp.1546-7 on TDOV

[:1-1] Janak, Jaden. "(Trans) gendering Abolition: Black Trans Geographies, Art, and the Problem of Visibility." GLQ 28, no. 2 (2022): 259-276. TDOV discussed on p.259.

[2] Johnson, Ryan. "Trans Futures: A Consideration of Transgender Youth, Transgender Visibility, and Transgender Citizenship." PhD diss., The Ohio State University, 2015. pp.22-23

[3] Redburn, Kate. "The Visibility Trap." University of Chicago Law Review 89, no. 6 (2022): pp.1546-7 on TDOV

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