Transgender Day of Visibility Celebration Returns
to Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network
Hosts Fifth Annual Event
at Unitarian Society on Saturday
by Callie Fausey | Photos by Ingrid Bostrom
April 4, 2023
When Kathy Abad’s son came out to her as transgender when he was 14, she didn’t know what to do. It’s not like there was a handbook, or many accessible examples to follow, about how to be a parent to a transgender kid. And there certainly were no local events specifically dedicated to a day of trans visibility, like the one that was just celebrated this weekend.
“We just didn’t know anything,” Abad said. “It felt like I was the only person in the world who had trans kids: really isolating, lonely, and powerless.”
But she and her husband wanted to learn. They turned to PFLAG Santa Barbara, a nonprofit advocacy and support group for parents, families, and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons. During the first PFLAG meeting Abad attended eight years ago, she was introduced to three other parents of trans kids.
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