Transgender Day of Rememberance

 

A reminder for the observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance by the TransVision team. "Rita Hester, a trans woman was stabbed 20 times in her own apartment and later died in the hospital in Boston in 1998. The murderer who was alleged to be a cis, white male was never caught. The trans day of remembrance emerged as an outpouring of grief and rage of black trans communities which then began to be observed globally in various countries. Trans people compounded by race, caste and class locations routinely face disproportionate amounts of violence and hate crimes to this day. The violence continues even after death when we are misgendered in news reports about our death or dead named or buried according to rituals specific to a gender we rejected while we are alive. TDOR is a day when we remember and memorialize the people we lost. TDOR is a day that we come together because nobody else remembers the people we lost, not even the families we were born into." - Gee Semmelar