{"id":680,"date":"2003-07-14T18:38:16","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T18:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/07\/14\/v-day_deals_with_trans_issues.html"},"modified":"2003-07-14T18:38:16","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T18:38:16","slug":"v-day_deals_with_trans_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/07\/14\/v-day_deals_with_trans_issues.html","title":{"rendered":"V-Day deals with trans issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When i first got involved in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/\">V-Day<\/a> in 1998, i was determined to make it as trans-friendly as possible.  Violence against women hits the trans community so very hard.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gender.org\/remember\/day\/\">So many murders, so much violence.<\/a>  Before i was even staff at V-Day, i helped make the organization trans-friendly by clarifying what we meant when we say that all actresses must be women.  We explicitly tell organizers that V-Day does not define someone&#8217;s gender identity and that they must include anyone who identifies as and lives their lives as women.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, i&#8217;ve watched as more and more transwomen have participated in V-Days in a variety of ways.  I watched women come into their own through V-Day, find that female bond and really understand what it means to be a woman.  And this year, Eve is going to take the trans issue even more seriously.  Not only is she going to write a trans monologue, but V-Day is working directly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/html\/stories\/894\/894_transformations.asp\">Calpernia Addams to create a trans-focused V-Day<\/a>.  Yippee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When i first got involved in V-Day in 1998, i was determined to make it as trans-friendly as possible. Violence against women hits the trans community so very hard. So many murders, so much violence. Before i was even staff at V-Day, i helped make the organization trans-friendly by clarifying what we meant when we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}