diff --git a/newsfragments/3186.misc.rst b/newsfragments/3186.misc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de85be80cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/3186.misc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Publicly re-export ``__version__`` for type checking purposes.
diff --git a/src/trio/__init__.py b/src/trio/__init__.py
index 34fda84525..0b675ce473 100644
--- a/src/trio/__init__.py
+++ b/src/trio/__init__.py
@@ -104,10 +104,7 @@
     sleep_forever as sleep_forever,
     sleep_until as sleep_until,
 )
-
-# pyright explicitly does not care about `__version__`
-# see https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/typed-libraries.md#type-completeness
-from ._version import __version__
+from ._version import __version__ as __version__
 
 # Not imported by default, but mentioned here so static analysis tools like
 # pylint will know that it exists.