Transgender Day of Remembrance

Today marks the 9th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, “set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice.” The event organizers explain:

The event honors Rita Hester, whose murder in 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Since then, the event has grown to encompass memorials in dozens of cities across the world.

The Remembering Our Dead site has a list of those who were killed in 2007 because of anti-transgender bias.

My thoughts are with the trans community today. For insightful reflections on gender and trans issues, try (en)Gender, Transadvocate, and many of the writers at The Bilerico Project, including Marti Abernathy and Rebecca Juro. (There are many other sites as well, but the ones above should give you enough linkage to get started, should you be interested in finding more.) I’d also be remiss if I didn’t provide a link to TransParentcy, an organization dedicated to transgender parents and their children. I do not know if any of this year’s victims had children, but each was somebody’s child once. As a parent, and as a human being, that is enough to make me bow my head in silence today.

3 thoughts on “Transgender Day of Remembrance”

  1. Thank you, Dana, for choosing to live compassionately and to suffer with those who suffer. My heart has been so warmed by finding so many of my lesbian and gay friends online making this choice and remembering today. It’s inspired me to strive for deeper and broader compassion in my own life.

  2. In addition to memorializing the people lost to senseless hate and violence, I would like to honor the women and men who courageously live their lives in truth everyday.

    It makes me so angry that much of the hate and degredation against the GLBT community is embraced by religion!

    Everyone in our community should know that there’s a documentary film soon to be released about two lesbian women who set out to fight against religious bigotry by posing as a straight couple in an evangelical church… and they have proof.

    You can see Faith of the Abomination movie trailer on YouTube, or go directly to FaithoftheAbomination.com

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