International Transgender Day of Visibility

High school (ages 12+)
Holidays & Celebrations

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/international-transgender-day-of-visibility

1. What is the year of inauguration?
2. What is the initiating organization?
3. When did International Transgender Day of Visibility start?
4. Why is International Transgender Day of Visibility different from Transgender Day of Remembrance?

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the year of inauguration?2009
2. What is the initiating organization?Transgender Student Educational Resources (TSER)
3. When did International Transgender Day of Visibility start?It started in 2009.
4. Why is International Transgender Day of Visibility different from Transgender Day of Remembrance?The Day of Visibility is a celebration, while the Day of Remembrance remembers people who were hurt or lost.

Transgender Identity: An individual's deeply felt internal sense of gender, which may or may not align with the sex assigned at birth.
Marginalization: The process of treating a person or group as insignificant or peripheral.
Intersectionality: The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, creating overlapping systems of discrimination or disadvantage.