In 2009, 15 years ago, March 31 was dedicated as Trans Day of Visibility. In those 15 years, I had never heard of this special day, even though I support the cause that it celebrates.

However this year, Christians got their panties all up in a wad because TDOV ended up on the same day as Easter. (Will Christians never learn, that when you make a big protest about something, you will draw awareness to the very issue you wish would go away?)

Seems to me if anyone had a right to the day, it would be the transgender folks. They made it clear they staked out March 31 as their day.

While on the other hand, because the bible doesn’t mention the date of Easter (or Christmas for that matter) anywhere, they decided to make it a floating holiday that bounces around from year to year, landing anywhere from March 22nd to April 25th, a span of over a month.

How is that possible?

Well first you have to decide what calendar you’re going to use because the Gregorian and Julian calendars calculate it differently. Here in the west we use the Gregorian calendar and it goes like this.

Easter is the first Sunday after the astronomical full moon after the astronomical March equinox as measured at the meridian of Jerusalem.

Got that?

That’s a lot of science being used to calculate the right day to celebrate an entirely mythological event.

You may have noticed that the date relates to the spring equinox. That’s not a coincidence. Just like the Christian celebration of Jesus’s birth stole a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, Easter appropriated another celebration based on tracking the seasons.

So it’s entirely ironic that Christians would be the ones to complain about someone stealing their holiday, when Easter stole one from the pagans and they can’t even be pin down what day Jesus died to celebrate it properly.

While it’s totally ironic, it’s not unexpected. Christians, who plaster “God is Love” on their walls, can’t tolerate the idea that God didn’t create a population of binary creatures. Odd, because if we were all created in God’s image, it shouldn’t even be binary.

The fact that Christian’s don’t tolerate shades of grey, and therefore can’t tolerate people who fit in somewhere between zero and one is why TDOV was needed in the first place.

It’s a shame that Christian’s haven’t recognized that deity begins with DEI.