Transgender Day of Remembrance Today
Nov. 20th, 2008 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unusualmusic_lj_archiveOfficial website Locations of events, list of the dead, etc. via: Bilerico
2008-Names list
10 years, 400 dead and counting
A Gender Primer
Monica's TRANScending Gender Keynote Speech Part One
Monica's TRANScending Gender Keynote Speech Part Two
Questioning Transphobia
The Value of a Life
Transgender day of Remebrance webcomic via: Bilerico
ACLU Blog of Rights Post via: Pams's House Blend
2008-Names list
10 years, 400 dead and counting
A Gender Primer
Monica's TRANScending Gender Keynote Speech Part One
Monica's TRANScending Gender Keynote Speech Part Two
Questioning Transphobia
The Value of a Life
Transgender day of Remebrance webcomic via: Bilerico
ACLU Blog of Rights Post via: Pams's House Blend
Today marks the tenth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day created to remember and honor all people who have lost their lives to anti-transgender violence. The event was originally held on the first anniversary of the murder of Rita Hester, an out transgender woman who was killed on November 28, 1998, in Boston, Massachusetts. Rita’s murder, like many anti-transgender murder cases, remains unsolved.
Diane Schroer is a highly-decorated veteran, transgender activist and plaintiff in our successful employment discrimination lawsuit Schroer v. Library of Congress. She spoke at a Transgender Day of Remembrance event in Chicago organized by Cyndi Richards, Illinois Gender Advocates and the Center on Halstead. The following is an excerpt from her remarks.
I would wager we have not all been personally touched by a hate crime, but we have all been touched by one of the all too frequent suicides in our community. Therefore, this list [of victims of anti-transgender violence] should be ten-fold as long when the names of all the other victims of hatred are added to its rolls. Not in any way to diminish the suffering and needless tragedy of hate crimes, but rather to paint a more accurate picture of the impact of hatred and intolerance on our community. The victims who felt no alternative but to take their own lives as the only possible solution to a world that can be terribly cold and unforgiving of violating its norms. If we succeed in nothing else, we must change this.
We must convince ourselves, along with society, that it is not a sin, against God or man to be transgender. MORE
