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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
- Kwani & Kamorth
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:21pm
This whole thing made me seriously angry.
Come on people, how hard is it to think "Oh hey look, that person is a human being"? That's all it takes.
- Iron Sídhe
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Posted on: Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:24am
Thank you. This is personally relevant to me as as a trans man. I know how lucky I am in spite of the things I have been through and deal with. Today is always a sobering extra reminder- even thought I know this stuff.
I also end up thinking about my college's Gay/Straight Alliance. Our memorial was the first memorial ever held in my state. I remember the people who came from the community who said how much having a local event meant. They stopped having a memorial after I graduated. It's always felt like they decided the T didn't matter enough to do bother doing even a small memorial. The trans person who suggested the trans event left and that was the end of it.
- Ezreal <3 Z
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Posted on: Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:30am
Thanks for this.
- Velcrow
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Posted on: Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:48am
I dunno why people hate on gender identity disorder
they don't with any other disorder nearly as often.
- Pixiequeen
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Posted on: Fri Nov 21, 2014 3:47am
Horrible that people are killed, esp. those in Brazil (seem particularly violent there; probably due to strong church upbringing). My prayers go out to their families and/or children. God will deal with the guilty.
- Absinthium
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Posted on: Fri Nov 21, 2014 4:10am
Probably because in many cases it's just a fashion to be gender 'disordered' while it's just normal, regular teenage sexual disorientation and finding what's for you and what's not. Media doesn't speak about other disorders nearly as often as about gender. Not speaking about all these manifestations and riots of "acceptance" there are other ways to fight for your rights rather than screaming it into my face that you're different orientation - into fancy dress-up. I honestly don't care as long as such people aren't oversensitive about my not-offensive words (arguing about the fact that I dislike specific shade of rainbow is too much and just a joke to me completely ruining whole image other people from such group are trying to build). I honestly think people of specific orientation should take care of their people first and not overflow me with super-extra news about them. The same goes with eating something new. If I'm not used to it I try it over some period of time little by little, not eat it constantly over and over again because I won't like it if I didn't accept the tase and got used to it. I'm tired of those posts. They're important but small image of the left is enough. There were several 'days of the year' about my country for example that you've skipped and none takes care of it.
- Flufsera
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Posted on: Fri Nov 21, 2014 6:35am
I'm GLAAD you care :D
- gargamel
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Posted on: Fri Nov 21, 2014 1:01pm
it's so tragic to kill anyone for any reason and people should just accept people. It makes me so sad to see this happening in our modern world, very sad indeed.
Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:50pm
Thank you Slash. Love to everyone. Do whatever it takes in life to be who you're meant to be. Everyone is important and everyone is deserving of love. Keep these wonderful people in your thoughts and all who passed before them. -Garai