Ryka Aoki Japanese-American writer and poet Ryka Aoki writes about identity as a trans woman in her essays and book of poetry, Seasonal Velocities, but she intends to be read first and foremost as a human being. In her writing, Talusan focuses on trans issues through the lens of minority communities, and she recently spoke to The New York Times about the experience. Meredith Talusan Meredith Talusan, a contributing editor at Them, is a journalist and author of the forthcoming memoir Fairest, which delves into her experiences as an albino first-generation Filipino-American. On this Trans Day of Visibility, we reassert that we will not and cannot be erased.” “We acknowledge that folks at the intersections of multiple identities are targeted and must be lifted up. “We acknowledge that when trans folks are misgendered and disavowed, this is yet another attempt to stigmatize and erase us,” Cox wrote in an Instagram post. The phrase was coined by trans actress and activist Laverne Cox last year on the Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31. The memo has caused an uproar among the transgender community and its supporters, many of whom have taken to social media to voice their refusal to back down, sharing their stories with the hashtag #WeWontBeErased. Last week, a leaked memo from the Trump administration revealed a plan to crack down on civil rights and protections under Title IX for transgender and gender nonconforming people by constricting the legal definition of sex as “a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.” The policy would undo several decisions made by the Obama administration that cumulatively loosened the definition of gender in federal programs, intending to legally enforce gender identification as the choice of the individual.
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