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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
- SandTiger
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:56am
Good points, regarding the triggering. At least you are all honest. I'm sorry for offending you. Fortunately, the Aywas staff is more level headed than I.
- Lavaheart
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:09am
Triggering is good imo every once in awhile... especially with this sort of subject. People NEED to be pulled to see the reality To see that there are people actually killed all around the world just because they don't follow the norm.
Very sad though overall to see all those that had died. so many young and old...
- kieshara
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:13am
what?! my pokemon trading buddy is dead?! now this is sad... :'(
Gizzy was a awsome friend... R.I.P
- Kas & Ouija
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:40am
Man, looking at that list is so sad... All of it. None of them should have faced an end for their identities, but what's saddest to me yet (aside from the 8 year old), is the ridiculous number of unknown women on that list. No one can even share their names or stories, just their deaths and that's heartbreaking.
- Kyu
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:59am
Wow world is sure full of disgusting hearless people.
But it's also full of nice people like Slash, who shines light on this.
I hope mixed gender people will finally get accepted eventually.
- Saturn [LLs]
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 2:31am
Oh my god, I knew things were bad in some places.. but this list? I sincerely feel for these people and the loved ones they left behind. This brings tears to my eyes.. and I'm not even the weepy type. An 8 year old beaten to death by his dad?! A teen tied to a tree and thrown in the river?! This makes me sick. And I noticed that apart from the few 'stray' cases in the US (mostly Ohio) or elsewhere, most of these murders took place in Brazil. By far.
This makes me wonder; is mutual acceptance not a thing there? Is this tied to their religious beliefs? And mostly, is there a way to stop it? I am not against donating money to a charity, though in this case I'd like to support a more local initiative to weed out the sick bastards doing this at the source.
- ♡ mimi ♡
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 2:53am
I agree that there should be TW here. Its better to have it than not.
- Kaze
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:37am
I'm always so scared I'll look at one of these lists and see my friends or my ex-partners on there someday.
- (N) -n- (M)
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:31am
Thank you.
Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:55am
thanks for putting this up, i thought about suggesting it but i was worried about it. im not that great with communicating, it makes me nervous. but i have recieved death threats, i was bullied out of school, and i have been beaten and shot at for being trans so its nice to have support from people like this uvu