I think we should invent a new holiday that's kinda like Halloween, but it's specifically for crossdressing.

This isn't a fetish thing but I think there's enough early-eggs who would quickly Learn Some Things About Themselves if they got a chance to crossdress.

Thus, let's make a holiday for culturally appropriate approved crossdressing. Just a day where people get dressed up as the opposite sex, for fun!

And if some of those people realize things about themselves in the process, great!

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Yeah exactly!

Ok so I was driving around and I realized I already did this last year, so... It's a thing now.

Crossdressing Day is October 13th every year.

This is an all ages all genders non-sexual* holiday. On that day, try crossdressing. Maybe go to a party or a lunch or whatever, crossdressed. Try it out. Get someone to dress you up, or go by a thrift shop and find some second hand clothes to try out. The important thing is to have fun with it.

And it's not a gender-binary-enforcing holiday! You don't need to dress as the "opposite" sex. Dress androgynous or weird genders or whatever. (just please try to avoid "man in a dress" comedy)

Fellow trans people: you can use this holiday to dress more fem/masc than you usually do, you can use it to not have to boymode/girlmode, or you can just skip it, of course.

Anyway the idea of the holiday is that you can try crossdressing for fun. It's lighthearted and not at all serious. Obviously consider your safety first, because there is sadly still transphobia, but hopefully there'll be a little less once Crossdressing Day catches on.

Mark your calendars

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Since it’s been asked: 

Don’t schedule important events on major Jewish holidays

A lot of things get scheduled on major Jewish holidays, in a way that prevents Jews from being able to participate. This needs to stop. 

If you’re in charge of scheduling things like:

Please avoid scheduling on major Jewish holidays. The most important ones to avoid are:

These holidays are at slightly different times each year, because the Jewish calendar is lunar. Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are in the fall, Passover is in the Spring. You can check when they are at hebcal.com, and hebcal.com also has a calendar you can subscribe to that says when the holidays are.

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are the times at which Jews who don’t go to synagogue at any other time of year go. (In the same way that some Christians only go to church on Easter and Christmas). They are also major family holidays, even for people who are otherwise secular. Yom Kippur is a 25 hour fast (from both food and water) and most people who observe it are pretty wiped out immediately afterwards. 

The first two nights of Passover are when Jewish families hold Passover seders. It’s a major family holiday, even for people who do not consider themselves religious and never go to synagogue at all. Nearly all Jewish families have some sort of seder. 

It is considerate to also avoid scheduling important events that would require travel on the day before and after these major holidays. It is critical to avoid scheduling events on the holidays themselves.

There are other Jewish holidays that will create conflicts for some Jews, but they’re not as important to most Jewish people. 

tl;dr: If you value Jewish participation and solidarity with Jews, it is critically important to avoid scheduling important events on on Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and the first two nights of Passover.

The Hebrew calendar measures days from sunset to sunset, so a single-day holiday will span two dates on the Gregorian (civil/secular) calendar. If the calendar you’re using doesn’t say ‘Yom Kippur begins at sundown,’ check another calendar to verify which Gregorian evening and day will have the holiday observance(s).

That too. Thank you.