{"id":157212,"date":"2022-04-01T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=157212"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T01:06:28","slug":"waikiki-aquarium-lgbtq-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/01\/waikiki-aquarium-lgbtq-video\/","title":{"rendered":"International Transgender Day of Visibility honored in joint <abbr>UH<\/abbr> video"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_157208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157208\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/waikiki-aquarium-lgbtq-center-video.png\" alt=\"5 people in front of waikiki aquarium\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/waikiki-aquarium-lgbtq-center-video.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/waikiki-aquarium-lgbtq-center-video-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/waikiki-aquarium-lgbtq-center-video-130x73.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa students and <abbr>LGBTQ+<\/abbr> Center Director Camaron Miyamoto were featured in the joint <abbr>UH<\/abbr> video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In recognition of International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waikikiaquarium.org\/\">Waik\u012bk\u012b Aquarium<\/a> partnered with the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/lgbtq\/\"><abbr title=\"lesbian, gay, transgender, queer and others\">LGBTQ+<\/abbr> Center<\/a> to produce a special educational video that celebrates the importance of gender diversity within human and marine life.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently more than 500 species of fish that change sex throughout their lives, including clownfish, groupers and masked angelfish. The transformations can be triggered by age, size or social reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Gender change is normal, and it is something that we see in many species throughout nature,&rdquo; said <strong>Camaron Miyamoto<\/strong>, director of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <abbr>LGBTQ+<\/abbr> Center. &ldquo;The purpose of this video is to showcase this and the fact that everyone is part of a natural environment and deserves to be truly affirmed for their sexuality, gender and sex.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We hope that this video educates the community about the importance of not only accepting but celebrating gender diversity. The absolute normalcy and neccessity of changing sex in many species is highlighted within the fish at the Waik\u012bk\u012b Aquarium. It is an honor to partner with the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <abbr>LGBTQ+<\/abbr> Center on this significant effort,&rdquo; added <strong>Chessa Caparros<\/strong>, Waik\u012bk\u012b Aquarium volunteer program coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2009, International Transgender Day of Visibility honors and celebrates the achievements, courage and resiliency of transgender individuals and communities. It raises awareness of the discrimination and barriers to equality the transgender community faces daily.<\/p>\n<p>To view the full video, visit the Waik\u012bk\u012b Aquarium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/waikikiaquarium\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/waikikiaquarium\/\">Instagram<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The special educational video that celebrates the importance of gender diversity within human and marine life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[690,9,56,302],"class_list":["post-157212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-lgbtq","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","tag-waikiki-aquarium","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157224,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157212\/revisions\/157224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}