Ahem. I see that it is Trans Awareness Week.

There’s nothing like a Corporate Memphis banner to get us all enthusiastic.

Anyway they’re not just making it up. If you Google Transgender Awareness Week you do indeed get ample confirmation that this is indeed that very week.

The Human Rights Campaign explains our duties:

Honor Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance

Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance is a time for the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate, uplift and honor our trans community. 

By publicly demonstrating support while challenging anti-trans legislation and negative rhetoric, we can turn our solidarity as LGBTQ+ people and allies into a collective power to advance equality and justice. 

But what equality and justice do trans people not have?

That’s the problem this ideology always has – its demands are not like the demands of previous rights campaigns that really were and are about equality and justice. It’s not “equality” to pretend that men are women, nor is it equality to order other people to pretend that men are women. It’s also not justice.

None of it fits. Trans isn’t like the workers being exploited and oppressed. It isn’t like racism keeping people terrorized and excluded. It isn’t like sexism keeping half of humanity powerless and dominated. It isn’t even like homophobia shaming and punishing people for same-sex orientation. The puzzle pieces don’t fit.