CO-SPONSORS Center for Black Equity, Empowering the Transgender Community (ETC), The DC Center for the LGBT Community, Whitman-Walker Health, Human Rights Campaign.
November 20, 2016 marks the 16th annual observance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TdoR), which commemorates those who have been killed due to anti-transgender hatred. The 1998 murder of Rita Hester, a Boston transgender woman, sparked the Remembering Our Dead web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita He...
CO-SPONSORS Center for Black Equity, Empowering the Transgender Community (ETC), The DC Center for the LGBT Community, Whitman-Walker Health, Human Rights Campaign.
November 20, 2016 marks the 16th annual observance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TdoR), which commemorates those who have been killed due to anti-transgender hatred. The 1998 murder of Rita Hester, a Boston transgender woman, sparked the Remembering Our Dead web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester's murder, like most anti-transgender murder cases, has yet to be solved.
In the first eight months of 2016, the murders pf 19 transgender people have been reported. Almost all of the victims were people of color, and the vast majority of those were black transgender individuals.
Given that grim reality, it's no wonder advocates continue to sound the alarm on what they call an epidemic of deadly transphobic violence. And while the world comes together every November 20th to commemorate the lives lost during the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, the fear and ignorance that fuel these fatal attack heed no calendar.
Last year was the deadliest on record for transgender Americans, with at least 21 trans women killed in the U.S. alone. Notably, this number does not include individuals whose deaths were not reported or investigated, nor victims who were misgendered by police and media or simply not recognized as trans women in death.
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