Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️⚧️
Celebrating the many stunning and brave trans icons who call America home.
In an era where trans stories dominate media, trans voices drown out those of women, and trans athletes routinely crush their female opponents, it’s high time we celebrate and uplift the trans-identified community. This weekend, President Biden declared Sunday, March 31st (formerly Easter) National Transgender Day of Visibility, officially ending the curse of invisibility cast upon all trans-identified people in the land. Now that we can see them again, let’s spotlight some of the most influential and inspirational trans change makers our country has to offer. They’re part of the fabric of our nation, after all!
Monica Helms
Monica Helms, born Robert Hogge, was just 12 years old when he first began stealing his mother’s underwear. As he matured, his fascination with female undergarments escalated, until the pivotal moment when he bravely stole a bra from the laundry room of his South Carolina apartment complex. Overcome with trans joy, Helms snuck the bra back to his apartment and modeled it for himself in the mirror.
“The feelings I had, dressed as a woman, ran the gamut of human emotions. Sexual excitement topped the list of what came over me while wearing woman’s clothes,” Helms writes in his memoir.
After serving in the Navy, Helms went on to marry and have children. When hiding his sexual urges and hormone usage from his wife became too much to bear, Helms courageously left his family in pursuit of his own deviant sexual desires.
But it wasn't all just orgies and sex clubs. As it turns out, Helms had quite the creative streak, authoring short stories exploring exciting topics like forced feminization and 16-year-old brides who never age. Helms also went on to design the transgender pride flag, known for its signature blue, pink, and white stripes. Some say it bears a striking resemblance to symbols used in pedophile communities—but great minds think alike, right?
Dr. Rachel Levine
As a pediatrician, the first ‘woman’ Assistant Secretary of Health, and recipient of USA Today’s Woman of the Year award 2022, Dr. Rachel Levine is an inspiration to young women and girls everywhere.
From the beginning of his tenure as Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Levine, born Richard, has made advancing the medicalization of children top priority. Levine has courageously spoken out against Texas’ push to investigate parents giving drugs to their children that permanently sterilize, impair bone density, and inhibit mental and emotional functioning. In March of 2023, Levine confirmed that chemically castrating minors has the “highest support” of the Biden administration.
“Every major medical association agrees: gender-affirming care is live-saving, medically necessary, age-appropriate and a critical tool for healthcare providers,” Levine bravely stated in 2022, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Perhaps bravest of all, Levine has expressed gratitude for his late in life transition, noting that he wouldn’t have his children otherwise — yet continuing to promote sterilization drugs for minors all the same.
“I have no regrets because if I had transitioned when I was younger, then I wouldn’t have my children,” Levine said. “I can’t imagine a life without my children.”
Jennifer Pritzker
You’ve probably never heard the name Jennifer Pritzker before—and that’s because he doesn’t want you to. Although heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune with a net worth in the billions, this shy, sensitive transgender icon likes to keep a low profile, quietly funneling millions of dollars into trans research and medical projects across the country.
Among Pritzker’s generous, sizable contributions include a donation of millions to the University of Minnesota for the creation of a Program of Human Sexuality, over $20 million to Lurie’s Children Hospital for research into gender non-conforming children, another $20 million to the University of Toronto to create a Center for Sexual Diversity Studies, and $25 million to the University of California in exchange for a children’s psychiatric unit specializing in transing kids. Thanks, Jen!
Erin Reed
No stranger to this Substack, Erin Reed is a brave trans-identified journalist specializing in lying and misrepresenting facts to his many followers. On the activism front, Reed frequently mobilizes his large following to take action against child safeguarding measures designed to protect children from harmful, irreversible medical procedures. You go, girl!
Prior to transitioning, Reed made an honest living as an acid salesman. During his tenure, he made a reputation for himself as a reliable, even life-saving employee, manipulating his customers into calling him rather than 911 when they experienced an overdose. Upon arriving at the scene, Reed would administer Xanax to his terrified customers to halt symptoms of overdose. Women support women, right Reed?
Julia Serano
No list featuring influential trans-identified men would be complete without legendary writer Julia Serano. In 2007, Serano published the so-called MtF bible, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, opening up a veritable Pandora’s box of trans activist talking points, cliches, and mythologies.
Among the ideas espoused in his book, Serano writes of ‘transmisogyny,’ the supposed special brand of misogyny so special that only men are capable of experiencing it. The book is also credited with popularizing trans terminology including “cis” and “cis-sexual”.
But of all the claims made and experiences recounted in the book, few are braver than this:
In defending this claim, Serano castigates his detractors for taking it “out of context”. The missing context, according to Serano, is that these fantasies occurred during a tumultuous, confusing time during his early “womanhood”— the time just after living as a self-confessed crossdresser — and that he still had some internalized misogyny to work through. In men, misogyny is usually just called misogyny, but Serano can be forgiven one mistake in light of his significant contributions to society. Contributions which include spending countless hours ‘debunking’ Blanchard’s theory of autogynephilia, labeling it as ‘transphobic,’ and ‘bunk science’, while also claiming that women are autogynephiles too.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this list celebrating the many stunning and brave trans identified men who call America home. Happy Easter—I mean Transgender Day of Visibility! I look forward to Monday, when all of the trans-identified men become invisible once again.
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