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The Trans Day of Remembrance is November 20th this year. Normally, I don't make news posts about all of the awareness icons that show up on the sidebar, but this one is important enough to me that I need to.
This day was started by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a trans activist, in memory of Rita Hester. She was a transgender woman killed in 1998. The day is a vigil for all of the transgender people killed in the previous year.
"The Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people -- sometimes in the most brutal ways possible -- it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice."
- Transgender Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith
This may not be a very fun topic for Aywas, but this our reality -- mine, yours, everyone's. While it's difficult to hold a vigil online, please at least look at the list of transgender people killed this past year and remember them, think of them, at least once during the upcoming twenty four hours.
I would really appreciate it.
I personally donated $100 to GLAAD in honor of the day.
You can pick up a Transgender Pride Flag from the Advent Calendar today.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:03am
- Thylacinus
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:05am
all the hate towards people who aren't straight is sad ;n;
- Alone~
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:06am
Thank you very much!
- Moons 🌙
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:07am
This is so important to me, thank you so much for this
- Detective Butt
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:08am
This is so wonderful yet so sad, thank you for the newspost on it! As a transgender person I just am always greatful I am alive and so terribly sorry to the families of those that arent
- Prof JaMEW
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:09am
Thank you, Slash. My friends and I with them really appreciate it.
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:10am
Posts like this make me proud to be a member of aywas. Thank you for the news post, Slash <3
- ♎ Astra ♎
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:11am
I thought "all of the transgender people killed in the previous year" was a typo -- as in, surely, you meant YEARS, plural. It's especially disgusting/sad to realize that enough people are killed over this EVERY YEAR to warrant such a list. :/
- Monarch
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:11am
Kita & Riri (#3988) Same Here ^_^
- ♎ Astra ♎
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:12am
To be clear: Even ONE person killed is too much, it's just that I thought it would've had to have taken multiple years (hence the plural "years") to have enough people to create a long list out of it.
Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:04am
Thank you very much for this, on behalf of myself and my beautiful partner.