Trans Day Of Remembrance Is Resilience Above All
November 20th marks the last day of Trans Awareness Week — seven days dedicated to giving voice and visibility to trans and gender non-conforming individuals — which culminates today with the Trans Day Of Remembrance (TDOR). TDOR honors those who’ve lost their lives in anti-trans violence, serving as a poignant reminder of both the struggle against hate and marginalization, but also the strength and resilience of the community at large.
Indeed, the numbers are bleak; you’d have to be incredibly naive or exceedingly callous to not be disturbed by statistics surrounding the trans experience, both here and abroad.
Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) project reported that at least 1,700 transgender and gender non-conforming people were murdered in the last seven years; twenty-two people have been killed so far in 2015, nearly twice the number compared to last year, according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP).
But. Changes are underway that finally reflect the decades of work that trans folks have championed, again and again, demanding to be seen, heard, and understood. Just this past Tuesday, lawmakers…
