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‘Transgender Day of Remembrance 2022 – Remember Each Person’
(20 Nov 2022)
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Dear Reader:
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2022.
Please remember each person, their names, their lives. Maybe you knew someone. Maybe you don’t know anyone. Maybe you have never known someone listed amongst a TDOR list. Acknowledge their lives this year, every year.
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Why do I attend to this remembrance?
It’s my personal connection.
My Uncle Frank – my mother’s younger brother – was in Transition during the 1960s, was my first guidance.
Though I have little memory of ever meeting him personally, my father was blaming him throughout my childhood – a ‘bad influence’. My father blamed him as the one who was responsible for my unruly Feminine Protesting behaviour, my dressing in my sister’s clothes, my wearing my teen cousins’ make-up, Kathy and I using her nail polish to paint each other’s fingernails, playing with the neighbourhood girls, playing Barbie with Kathy and Phyllis.
This was my only one specific memory of Uncle Frank. He travelled cross-country to visit us. I remember Uncle Frank and my father arguing at the front door. Uncle Frank was dressed in women’s clothes, a crime six decades ago. My father called the police, they arrested uncle Frank.
Uncle Frank remained in family debate throughout my childhood, teens, and adulthood.
Family arranged a conspiracy to murder him, to make it appear as suicide, to piddle with the local police to not bother investigating one irrelevant death of just another ‘tr*nny’ who deserved it.
Shortly afterward, his widow likewise was murdered in the overall plot. Who would doubt that the distraught wife would commit her own suicide, eh. Nothing to see here, move along.
Dead, Uncle Frank was still such an influence that he frightened my father. He was why my father moved us to Greece for the next two years.
The extended family abandoned their son Steve. Where are you, Cousin Stevie?
Then there is Evelyn, a Trans friend. She committed suicide a couple years ago.
We met in 2016, we were neighbours at Baan Siri. We were at Bangkok for surgery with Dr. Chettawut. She told me about her hobby with quad copters.
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Trans Panic Defence:
Anyone, anywhere, for no particular reason, for no reason at all, can scream that they have their Right to murder you solely because you are Trans. They fear catching your tr@nny cooties. They fear that you will touch them and they will suddenly become a tr@nny. Gawd forbid!
I’ve been threatened and beaten by people screaming anti-Trans slurs at me.
I wrote about this event here at this web-site when one of those attacks happened November 2017. Another creep made threats to me at the bus stop and then as we rode on the bus.
A criminal bullied me, taunted me, yelled anti-Trans slurs at me, beat me, left me with a concussion – in public, in full view of several witnesses, at a grocery store. They sat there, they stood there, they watched, they did nothing. No one came to support me, no one came to defend me. Store security was nowhere to be found.
All I got from the local police was their referral booklet; they refused to investigate, they refused to make a report of the criminal assault and battery, they refused to summon EMTs to tend to my obvious injuries and trauma.
Kapung Khaf, Alana! My Bestie drove half an hour from her home to take me to the ER for treatment.
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Let’s go back to a previous incarnation of Trans Panic Defence, an earlier time, when the government’s policy was the deliberate extinction of the entire Trans Community.
The Trans Community is right there with others of Hitler’s Final Solution, right there in Genocide and Shoah Holocaust.
These were Hitler’s Three Stages to Genocide:
– You have no Rights
– You have no Rights to live amongst us
– You have no Rights to live.
Hitler’s Final Solution included:
– Jews
– Roma,
– Communists,
– Socialists,
– Trade Unionists,
– Homosexuals,
– Trans people.
Hitler signed the Enabling Acts in early 1933. He promptly chose the Trans Community as amongst his first targets by Spring 1933. His Gestapo and SS destroyed Dr. Hirschfeld’s medical research library for one of his first book burnings. He used the information from Dr. Hirschfeld’s files to identify the Trans Community, he sought Trans people to be his first group to annihilate at his extermination camps.
History WILL repeat when Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons overthrow our Constitution and our American Democracy, as surely as they sought on Insurrection Wednesday, as surely as they persist their boast that they will today.
– Sharon
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Let’s look at today’s news.
News this morning reports still another Hate Crime. A Drumpfian White Supremacist bigot murdered at least five Trans and LGBT party goers in Saturdays’s late night hours at Club Q of Colorado Springs, Colorado – on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, no less, to make his anti-Trans point quite direct. This is Hitler’s Final Solution in play in 2022 America: You have no Rights to Live.
This first news article comes from Bestie Alana.
– Sharon
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(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/club-q-colorado-springs-shooting_n_637a0ba0e4b0c57396217343)
Police: 5 Dead, 25 Injured In Colorado Nightclub Shooting
A 22-year-old man was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrested by police following the shooting at Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs, authorities said.
Thomas Peipert
Nov 20, 2022, 06:15 AM EST
Updated 10 minutes ago
Elijah Newcomb of Colorado Springs lays flowers near a nightclub in Colorado Springs on Sunday where several people were shot and killed overnight.VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A 22-year-old gunman opened fire inside a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and leaving 25 injured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrested by police who arrived within minutes, authorities said Sunday.
Two firearms, including a “long rifle,” were found at Club Q after the Saturday night shooting, said Police Chief Adrian Vasquez.
On its Facebook page, the club called it a “hate attack.” Investigators were still determining a motive and whether to prosecute it as a hate crime, said El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen. Charges against the suspect “will likely include first-degree murder,” he said.
A man was arrested in 2021 after his mother reported he threatened her with a homemade bomb and other weapons, authorities said. They declined to elaborate on that arrest. No explosives were found, authorities said at the time, and The Gazette in Colorado Springs reported that prosecutors did not pursue any charges and that records were sealed.
Authorities were called to Club Q at 11:57 p.m. Saturday with a report of a shooting, and the first officer arrived at midnight.
Joshua Thurman said he was in the club with about two dozen other people and was dancing when the shots began. He initially thought it was part of the music, until he heard another shot and said he saw the flash of a gun muzzle.
Thurman, 34, said he ran with another person to a dressing room where someone already was hiding. They locked the door, turned off the lights and got on the floor but could hear the violence unfolding, including the gunman getting beaten up, he added.
“I could have lost my life — over what? What was the purpose?” he said as tears ran down his cheeks. “We were just enjoying ourselves. We weren’t out harming anyone. We were in our space, our community, our home, enjoying ourselves like everybody else does.”
The gunman was confronted by “at least two heroic people” who fought and subdued the suspect, Vasquez said.
“We owe them a great debt of thanks,” he added. Detectives also were examining whether anyone had helped Aldrich before the attack, Vasquez said.
Of the 25 injured, at least seven were in critical condition, authorities said. Some were hurt trying to flee, and it was unclear if all of the victims were shot, a police spokesperson said.
The shooting rekindled memories of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Colorado has experienced several mass killings, including at Columbine High School in 1999, a movie theater in suburban Denver in 2012 and at a Boulder supermarket last year.
It was the sixth mass killing this month and came in a year when the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Club Q is a gay and lesbian nightclub that features a drag show on Saturdays, according to its website. Club Q’s Facebook page said planned entertainment included a “punk and alternative show” preceding a birthday dance party, with a Sunday “all ages brunch.”
Drag events have become a focus of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and protests recently as opponents, including politicians, have proposed banning children from them, falsely claiming they’re used to “groom” children.
A 22-year-old man has been identified as the sole suspect in the Colorado Springs shooting.
Attorney General Merrick Garland was briefed on the shooting and the FBI was assisting police with the investigation.
President Joe Biden said that while the motive for the shootings was not yet clear, “we know that the LGBTQI+ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in recent years.”
“Places that are supposed to be safe spaces of acceptance and celebration should never be turned into places of terror and violence,” he said. “We cannot and must not tolerate hate.”
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who became the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected governor in 2018, called the shooting “sickening.”
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(https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/11/18/trans-day-remembrance-honoring-beautiful-trans-lives-stolen)
Trans Day of Remembrance: Honoring the Beautiful Trans Lives Stolen
Trans Day of Remembrance Candlelight Vigil
Sunday honors trans lives lost and remembers bold lives lived.
THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY
NOVEMBER 18 2022 4:30 PM EST
Today, ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance, the National Center for Transgender Equality has released the 2022 Remembrance Report to honor the lives of 47 trans people whose lives were stolen by violence since November 2021.
On Trans Day of Remembrance, we honor those taken from our communities, we celebrate their lives, and we root ourselves in our collective resilience. Across America, the transgender community is incredibly strong. In the face of systemic violence, trans people continue to survive and thrive. We support and celebrate each other while working hard to achieve our dreams.
Over the past several years, extremist politicians across the country have attempted to weaponize disinformation about trans people. They misuse and abuse the powers of state governments to persecute us and our families. We live in a political climate that has exploded with anti-trans legislation, policy, and rhetoric. In the lead-up to the most recent election, extremists spread lies about trans people, denigrating our community and stoking fear in people who simply don’t understand what it means to be trans.
These actions have consequences. They contribute to a deeply unsafe environment for trans people and our families – some of whom have had to flee their home states just to get the medical care they need. Over 25 percent of the trans people we lost to violence over the past year were located in Texas and Florida – two states which saw dozens of anti-trans legislative and administrative actions. Even the hospitals where trans people can access gender-affirming care across the country have been the targets of serious threats, and violence against trans people overall has increased in recent years.
Within our community, we know very well that trans women of color, and especially Black trans women, face an alarming and unacceptable amount of violence. Trans women made up 85 percent of those taken from us, and 70 percent of those trans women were Black.
No one should have to fear violence or mourn lost loved ones. No matter what, trans people across the nation deserve to live safe, healthy, and authentic lives. Trans people are vital parts of our communities. The trans experience is about far more than violence and statistics. We are brilliant, we are beautiful, and we are full of joy. Our lives have meaning. We matter.
In the National Center for Transgender Equality’s 2022 Remembrance Report, we honor the 47 trans people we have identified whose lives were lost to violence since November of 2021. The information in this report has been compiled from a variety of sources, including national and local news outlets; national, state, and local LGBTQ+ organizations; and social media posts. Here are stories of some of the people we remember.
Ariyanna was a 17-year-old Black transgender girl, an avid member of a local dance academy, and a junior in high school.
Chanelika was a 30-year-old Black transgender woman. She had just graduated with a degree in biology and was planning a move to California to become a physician’s assistant.
Marisela was a 39-year-old Latina transgender woman. Originally from Honduras, she spent most of her life in North Carolina and recently moved to Houston to be closer to her nieces and nephews.
Ray was a 26-years-old white transgender man and an avid cosplayer and convention-goer. His coworkers remember him as “a kind soul who had a glowing smile.”
Semaj was a 33-year-old Black transgender man who started his own cleaning business and was a student at Florida State College.
The stories of all 47 of our departed trans siblings are available in the full report.
(https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/resources/TDOR%20Remembrance%20Report%20by%20NCTE_Nov%202022%20(1).pdf)
This report is, unfortunately, almost certainly incomplete. Violence against our community is often underreported, and data about it is difficult to capture. Trans people who are victims of violence are frequently deadnamed, misgendered, or otherwise misidentified in death by law enforcement, journalists, and even by unsupportive family members. In addition, what reports do accurately reflect trans people’s identities, they often fail to represent the fullness of our humanity.
NCTE’s Remembrance Report centers the humanity and individuality of trans people whose lives were stolen by violence. We honor the loved ones we’ve lost to violence and celebrate those who are still here. No matter what, trans people across the nation deserve to live safe, healthy, and authentic lives.
We are brilliant, we are beautiful, and we are full of joy. Our lives have meaning. We matter.
In memoriam:
Ace Scott, 15, Kansas City, MO
Acey D. Morrison, 30, Rapid City, SD
Amariey Lej (Myara), 20, Pittsburgh, PA
Angel Naira, 36, Aliquippa, PA
Ariyanna Mitchell, 17, Hampton, VA
Brazil Johnson, 28, Milwaukee, WI
Brent Wood, 31, Seattle, WA
Chanelika Y’Ella Dior Hemingway (“Sid”), 30, Albany, NY
Cherry Bush, 48, Los Angeles, CA
Cypress Ramos, 21, Lubbock, TX
Danyale Johnson, 35, Memphis, TN
Dede Ricks, 33, Detroit, MI
DeeDee Hall, 47, Dallas, TX
Duval Princess, 24, Jacksonville, FL
Fern Feather, 29, Morristown, VT
Hayden Nevah Davis, 28, Detroit, MI
Jasper Aaron Lynch, 26, McLean, VA
Jenny DeLeon, 25, Sulpher Springs, FL
Kandii “Dee Dee” Redd (Kamila Marie Swann), 29, Kansas City, MO
Kathryn “Katie” Newhouse, 19, Canton, GA
Kesha Webster, 24, Jackson, MS
Keshia Chanel Geter, 26, Augusta, GA
Ke’Yahonna Stone, 32, Indianapolis, IN
Kitty Monroe, unknown age, Cordova, TN
Maddie Hofmann, 47, Malvern, PA
Marisela Castro, 39, Houston, TX
Marquiisha Lawrence, 28, Greenville, SC
Martasia Richmond, 30, Chicago, IL
Martina Caldera, 38, Channelview, TX
Matthew Angelo Spampinato, 21, New Castle, DE
Miia Love Parker, 25, Chester, PA
Naomie Skinner, 25, Highland Park, MI
Nedra Sequence Morris, 50, Opa-Locka, FL
Nikai David, 33, Oakland, CA
Nikki Turietta, 31, Albuquerque, NM
Paloma Vazquez, 29, Houston, TX
Paris Rich, 25, San Diego, CA
Princess, 24, Houston, TX
Ray Muscat, 26, Independence Twp., MI
Regina Mya Allen, 35, Milwaukee, WI
Sasha Mason, 45, Zebulon, NC
Semaj Billingslea, 33, Jacksonville, FL
Shawmaynè Giselle Marie McClam, 27, Gulfport, MS
Tatiana “Tee Tee” Labelle, 33, Chicago, IL
Tiffany Banks, 25, Miami, FL
Toi Davis, 34, Milwaukee, WI
Za’niyah Williams, 21, Houston, TX
The National Center for Transgender Equality is a leading social justice advocacy organization looking to make life-saving changes for transgender people.
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(https://transrespect.org/en/tmm-update-tdor-2022/)
Posted on 8th November 2022 in Press, Research, Trans Murder Monitoring
TMM Update • Trans Day of Remembrance 2022
327 trans and gender-diverse people reported murdered in the past year
8 November 2022 – On occasion of the International Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR),1 TGEU is releasing the 2022 update of Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM).2
The year 2022 saw 327 reported murders of trans and gender-diverse people between 1 October 2021 and 30 September 2022. With 222 cases, Latin America and the Caribbean remains the region that reported most of the murders.
Cases from Estonia and Switzerland were reported for the first time this year. The victims were migrant Black trans women – Sabrina Houston from Jamaica and Cristina Blackstar from Brazil. They were both stabbed to death in their own residences.
TMM 2022 data shows that:
327 trans and gender-diverse people were reported murdered;
Cases from Estonia and Switzerland were reported for the first time – both victims were migrant Black trans women;
95% of those murdered globally were trans women or trans feminine people;
Half of murdered trans people whose occupation is known were sex workers;
Of the cases with data on race and ethnicity, racialised trans people3 make up 65% of the reported murders;
36% of the trans people reported murdered in Europe were migrants;
68% of all the murders registered happened in Latin America and the Caribbean; 29% of the total happening in Brazil;
35% of the murders took place on the street and 27% in their own residence;
Most of the victims who were murdered were between 31 and 40 years old.
The data continues to indicate a worrying global trend when it comes to the intersections of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and whorephobia, with most victims being Black and migrant trans women of colour, and trans sex workers. The high number of murder reports from Latin America and the Caribbean can be considerably attributed to the existence of established monitoring systems, and must be understood in the specific social, political, economic, and historical contexts in which they occur.4
These numbers are just a small glimpse into the reality on the ground. The majority of the data came from countries with a strong network of trans and LGBTIQ organisations that conduct the monitoring.5 Most cases continue to go unreported and, when reported, receive very little attention.
More information
Table Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 (pdf)
Namelist Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 (pdf)
Namelist Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 (xlsx)
(https://transrespect.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TvT_TMM_TDoR2022_Namelist.xlsx)
Map
(https://transrespect.org/en/map/trans-murder-monitoring/)
Media contact: Lukas Berredo, Senior Communications Officer
NOTES:
1 Since 1999 the Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) takes place every November. It is a day on which trans and gender-diverse people victims of homicide are remembered. Started in the US, TDoR is now held around the world.
2 The Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) research project systematically monitors, collects, and analyses reports of homicides of trans and gender-diverse people worldwide. Updates of the results are published on the TvT website: http://transrespect.org/en/trans-murder-monitoring/tmm-resources
3 Like Equinox, we use the term “racialised people” to refer to those that have been negatively racialised or racialised as “other”.
4 Further analysis can be found on Carsten Balzer/Carla LaGata and Lukas Berredo (2016) TMM Annual Report 2016: 2,190 murders are only the tip of the iceberg – An introduction to the Trans Murder Monitoring project.
5 This year’s collection was possible thanks to Anna-Jayne Metcalfe (tdor.translivesmatter.info), TGEU members, Rede Trans Brasil’s Observatório Trans, and Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans.
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(https://fb.watch/gUQhMvHCiQ/)
Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
13 Nov 2022
The Origins of Transgender Day of Remembrance.
On November 20, 1995, Chanelle Pickett, an African American transgender woman living in the Greater Boston area, was murdered. She had been strangled. The Transgender Community Forum, a chat room on America Online (AOL), reported Chanelle’s death. The director of AOL’s Transgender Community Forum was Gwendolyn Ann Smith.
Three years later on November 28, 1998, Rita Hester, another African American transgender woman, was also murdered in Boston. She was stabbed 20 times. Gwen went online to chat with friends. She talked to others in the community and there was an air of sorrow that a Black trans women had been murdered so brutally, but though another Black transwoman was killed in the same month, in the same city, no one remembered Chanelle Pickett.
This lack of community memory frightened Gwen. She felt a, ”sense of frustration, seeing our community not seemingly having any idea of these murders, and feeling that they might not even care.”
So, Gwen began researching transgender deaths-by-violence. She launched the website Remembering Our Dead in late 1998. In March 1999, a fledgling trans rights group, called TG Rage, planted the seed for what would become Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). During a showing of “The Brandon Teena Story” at San Francisco’s Castro Theater Gwen and about 50 others held a vigil, holding candles and signs showing the names Gwen had collected. Gwen said a few words.
That autumn Gwen and Penni Ashe Matz decided to hold the first TDoR observances on November 20, 1999, in Boston and San Francisco. About 70-100 people gathered in the rain at Harvey Milk Plaza in The Castro for the first TDoR candlelight vigil. Their sign read:
Sunday, November 28th, 1999, will be the one year anniversary of the death of Rita Hester. Rita was stabbed to death in her own apartment.
Remembering Our Dead and TDoR began as one person’s quest to preserve transgender history and to memorialize those who died by violence year after year. And though other communities celebrate holidays born from a spirit of joy or liberation, the first holiday the transgender community put on the calendar is a solemn observance, a plea to respect human life.
Text by Ms. Bob Davis
Art by Robyn Adams
The TDoR Website reports that there have been 386 recorded violent deaths of trans people worldwide. The true number is certainly higher, as many deaths go unreported, the victims misgendered and dead-named by family and media. In the United States, the Human Rights Campaign has reported 32 murders of trans people in the United States since last November 20, the majority of whom were trans women of color.
TDOR: https://tinyurl.com/58znhs9r
HRC: https://tinyurl.com/54n5z2kv
Remember their names.
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(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/pfbid02TEtANuBzjFxXZ4L7BpqeP4Ace2yx8pDMefojvNT76H8mtLQQHz2YY22rWFt5eewol/)
Sharon Nichols
23 Nov 2022
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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02kHLt9FJ9QPyjHvGKTphDD3pAqeueahNtYX2BG4tH2gYSqKhDZNYafceFqSe89CRBl&id=613001044)
(https://www.facebook.com/613001044/posts/10159297197311045/)
Pamela Raintree
21 Nov 2022
TDoR 2022
This is from the VA TDoR service, on 18 Nov.
In the interest of compiling the most accurate list of names possible, the organizations that track transphobic homicides have started reporting deaths from 1 October, of the previous year, through 30 September of the current year. This is the list for 2022. There are 69 names on the list, but last year we read the names from Oct 2022. Last year there were 46, including Riversong Phoenix, whose name is not included on this list. Not counting the names from October 2021, there are still 59 names to read. These are the names we read at the VA.
24 Sep 2022: Serena Brenneman: 16; Salem, OR; suicide
21 Sep 2022: Semaj Sincere Billingslea; 22; Jacksonville, FL; gunshot
29 Aug 2022: Regina (Mya) Allen; 35; Milwaukee, WI; gunshot
27 Aug 2022; Dede Ricks; 33; Detroit, MI; gunshot
21 Aug 2022: Acey D Morrison; 30; Rapid City, SD; gunshot
6 Aug 2022: Kimbell Kimble; 21; Gulfport, MS; died in police custody
29 Jul 2022: Marisela Castro; 39; Houston, TX; gunshot
25 Jul 2022: Hayden Nevah Davis; 28; Detroit, MI; gunshot
25 Jul 2022: Kamila Marie (Dee Dee) Swann/Kandii Redd; 29; Kansas City, MO; stabbed
20 Jul 2022: Keshia Chanel Geter; 26; August, GA; gunshot
16 Jul 2022: Toi Davis; 34; Milwaukee, WI; cause not reported
11 Jul 2022: Martasia Richmond; 30; Chicago, IL; stabbed
8 Jul 2022: Jimmie (Jay) Lee; 20; Lafayette Co, MS; undisclosed violence
7 Jul 2022: Jasper Aaron Lynch; 26; McClean, VA; gunshot
6 Jul 2022; Cherry Bush; 48; Los Angeles; gunshot
29 Jun 2022: Kitty Monroe; Memphis, TN; gunshot
21 Jun 2022: Shawmayné McClam; 27; Gulfport, MS; gunshot
15 Jun 2022: Brazil Johnson; 28; Milwaukee, WI; gunshot
13 Jun 2022: Paris Rich; 25; San Diego, CA; cause not reported
3 Jun 2022: Rexy Que; 26; Witchita, KA; suicide
31 May 2022: Chanelika Y’Ella (Sid) Dior Hemingway; 30; Albany, NY; murder
26 May 2022: Dee Dee Hall; 47; Dallas, TX; died in police custody
20 May 2022: Maddie Dickens; 28; Roseville, MI; possible suicide
19 May 2022: Maddie Hoffman; 47; Malvern, PA; gunshot
14 May 2022: Nedra Sequence (Sequence) Morris; 50; Opalocka, FL; gunshot
13 May 2022: Sasha Mason; 45; Zebulon, NC; gunshot
10 May 2022: Michelle S Tarrio; NY; cosmetic filler complications
8 May 2022: Ray Muscat; 24; Independence Twp; MI; gunshot
21 Apr 2022: Asher Garcia; 14; Frazee, MN; suicide
17 Apr 2022: Kenna Leigh Gillock; 26; Gold Hill, Oregon; suicide
15 Apr 2022: Ace Scott; 15; Kansas City, MO; cause not reported
12 Apr 2022: Fern Feather; 29; Morristown, VT; stabbed
2 Apr 2022: Ariyanna Mitchell; 17; Hampton, VA; gunshot
1 Apr 2022: Milla Love Parker; Chester, PA; gunshot
27 Mar 2022: Kai Khan; 18; Great Bend, KS; suicide
26 Mar 2022: Kesha Webster; 24; Jackson, MS; murder
19 Mar 2022: Tatiana (Tee Tee) Labelle; 33; Chicago, IL; murdered
17 Mar 2022: Elise Malary; 31; Evanston, IL; drowned
9 Mar 2022: Kathryn Newhouse; 19; Canton, GA; gunshot
3 Mar 2022: Brent Wood; 31; Seattle, WA; beating
3 Mar 2022: Milo Winslow; 30; Lincoln, NE; suicide
26 Feb 2022: Paloma Vasquez; 29; Houston, TX; gunshot
13 Feb 2022: Cypress Ramos; 21; Lubbock, TX; beating
12 Feb 2022: Naomie Skinner; 25; Highland Park, MI; gunshot
9 Feb 2022: Destinee Lashaee/Matthew Ventress; 29; Houston, TX; suicide
9 Feb 2022: Matthew Angelo Spampinato; 21; New Castle, DE; run over
2 Jan 2022: Duval Princess; 24; Jacksonville, FL; cause not reported
1 Jan 2022: Amarey (Myara) Lej; 21; Pittsburgh, PA; gunshot
31 Dec 2021: Nikki Turrietta; 31; Albuquerque, NM; gunshot
30 Dec 2021: Amelia Furniss Leonhart; 22 Idaho Falls; gunshot
28 Dec 2021: Ke’Yahonna Stone; 32; Indianapolis; gunshot
20 Dec 2021: Za’niyah Williams; 21; Houston, TX; run over
6 Dec 2021: Martina Caldera; 38; Channelview, TX; gunshot
3 Dec 2021: Nikai David; 33; Oakland, CA; gunshot
12 Nov 2021: Haley Gabrielle Feldmann; 19; Beach, ND; suicide
11 Nov 2021; Angel Naira; 36; Aliquippa, PA; gunshot
7 Nov 2021: Danyale Johnson; 35; Memphis, TN; gunshot
4 Nov 2021: Marquisha Lawence; 28; Greenville, NC; gunshot
2 Nov 2021: Jenny De Leon; 25; Tampa, FL; murdered
The following is the poem, and speech, I read at the memorial service:
DISREGARDED
all the invisible stars
on a new moon night
in clear November skies
red white and brown
dwarfs too dim to spy
myriad Sol-sized lights
spin about black holes
with red and blue giants
the flashy bright pulsars
even degenerate little
neutron stars are noticed
by star-gazing geeks
let just one familiar sun
suddenly stop shining
we’ll all hear the news
but there’s nary a word
when a dark one dies
An estimated two hundred, seventy-five million stars die every day. The public might hear about two or three of those events, in a whole year. The same is true of people who are killed for appearing to be gender non-conforming. Every day – somewhere today – several people will die, not because they stand out, but because their humanity goes unnoticed.
Rita Hester was murdered because she presented as female, in violation of our society’s stereotypes and taboos. In 1999, transphobic homicides were daily occurrences, in the USA. The general public just didn’t hear about those murders. Our law enforcement agencies didn’t even bother to track hate crimes involving sex and gender minorities, until years after Rita died.
What set Rita’s death apart, was that her friend, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, organized a memorial service, to honor Rita’s life. Gwendolyn was mourning the loss of her friend, but more than that, she was calling attention to the senseless violence that took her friend’s life, and threatened the lives of everyone in the transgender community. She also wanted to send a message to the people who hate us.
While it’s true that Rita Hester was a victim of a hate crime, she was not the target. She was the example. Her killer was sending a clear message that gender non-conformity will not be tolerated in this country. The silence, among law enforcement officials and in the news media, about daily hate crimes against members of my community, signaled support for our eradication. The message was intended for: transsexuals; drag performers; crossdressers; people who just appear “too” androgynous; and anyone who supports our right to live authentically.
Gwendolyn Smith’s message was also clear. She was telling the world about the terrorism against the transgender community. And she was putting our killers on notice that we are not going to die quietly ever again. Neither are we going to hide in fear. We will live our lives, despite the hate, and we will expose transphobia, as intolerable.
Since that first service, Transgender Day of Remembrance has become a global phenomenon. Every year, on November 20th, transgender people gather, not to mourn our dead, but to call attention to the violence against us, and to reiterate Gwendolyn Smith’s message, in defiance of our killers. Every year, our voices grow louder. And every year, our enemies’ voices grow louder too, and no matter how loud we shout, their voices outnumber our voices, so I wonder who, outside these services, can hear us.
Last year, we read the names of forty-six transphobic homicide victims. There are fifty-nine names to read this year. There are hundreds more names, that we won’t read, because that would be “too inconvenient,” and there are too many other names that we don’t know, just like all of those stars that die every day, without notice.
Looking around the room, I see some familiar faces, and recognize that a few of you have been in the trenches, fighting with us, to end the oppression and murder of people in my community. I appreciate your efforts more than I have words to adequately express. Others of you have offered sympathy for our losses, but I’m not here seeking sympathy, or to mourn the dead. I won’t have time to mourn, until the killing stops. No! I’m here to recruit volunteers.
I know you’ve come, to this memorial, because you want to show support. Thank you for that, but my community needs your voice. Together, we can shout down the people who claim that sex and gender diversity is intolerable. Together, we can make clear that this is a society for all people, where intolerance is unacceptable. Your voice can help carry that message. If you’re not sure how to use your voice, talk to your LGBT Care Coordinators, [redacted names]. Would you stand please? They can explain ways you can get involved. Any of you will add your voice, please stand with Dana and Danielle, and with everyone in the transgender community. Will you please stand and join us.
Thank you.
I walked away from the podium, leaving the attendees standing.
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(https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/transporting-the-burden-of-justification-the-unethicality-of-transgender-conversion-practices/8BD015A406AAA324459EEEE52B70EAB1)
Transporting the Burden of Justification: The Unethicality of Transgender Conversion Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press:
18 November 2022
Florence Ashley
Abstract
Transgender conversion practices involve attempts to alter, discourage, or suppress a person’s gender identity and/or desired gender presentation, including by delaying or preventing gender transition. Proponents of the practices have argued that they should be allowed until proven to be harmful. Drawing on the notion of expressive equality, I argue that conversion practices are prima facie unethical because they do not fulfill a legitimate clinical purpose and conflict with the self-understanding of trans communities.
Introduction
Transgender conversion practices aim to alter, discourage, or suppress a person’s gender identity and/or desired gender presentation, including by delaying or preventing gender transition.Reference Ashley 1 Conversion practices are heterogeneous and wide-ranging. They include not only wanting to help individuals “reconcile with their natal body,” but also attempts to identify the cause of the person’s expressed gender — including under the pretext of gender exploration — pursuant to the belief that it may be caused by social contagion, trauma, mental illness, internalized homophobia, and flight from womanhood.Reference Ashley 2 Tying together these heterogeneous practices is the belief that transitude — being trans — is suspect, and that cisgender identities are more desirable, legitimate, or authentic.Reference Salway and Ashley 3 Although some governments have banned conversion practices targeting gender identity, it remains legal in most jurisdictions. Instead of falling into desuetude, trans conversion practices may experience a revival in the wake of recent legislative and judicial attempts to curtail access to gender-affirming care.Reference McGuire 4
Despite widespread condemnation by professional organizations, some theorists and practitioners defend trans conversion practices on account of the fact that their harmfulness has not been proven, unlike that of gay conversion practices, and therefore argue that trans conversion practices should be allowed.Reference Green 5 Underlying this argument is the premise that opponents of trans conversion practices bear the ethical burden of justification and must prove the practices’ harmfulness before they can be deemed unethical and prohibited. In this paper, I argue that the argument misrepresents the ethical burden of justification. Trans conversion practices are prima facie unethical because they are contrary to the ideals of equality and justice. Accordingly, their proponents carry the burden of establishing that they are significantly more beneficial than all alternative clinical approaches — enough to outweigh that inequality. Since the available evidence does not countenance the view that trans conversion practices have better outcomes, we must conclude that they are unethical.
To be sure, we have reasons to believe that trans conversion practices are psychologically harmful. However, given the egalitarian implications of trans conversion practices, is sufficient to prohibit them that we have no evidence that they have substantially better outcomes than other approaches, such as gender-affirmative approaches. That the burden of justification lies on proponents of trans conversion practices is meaningful, because it allows us to circumvent methodological debates around whether the evidence of harm is strong enough to justify prohibition.
In this paper, I argue that the argument misrepresents the ethical burden of justification. Trans conversion practices are prima facie unethical because they are contrary to the ideals of equality and justice. Accordingly, their proponents carry the burden of establishing that they are significantly more beneficial than all alternative clinical approaches — enough to outweigh that inequality. Since the available evidence does not countenance the view that trans conversion practices have better outcomes, we must conclude that they are unethical.
The paper is divided into four sections. The first section draws on the work of legal philosopher Paul Gowder to establish expressive equality as an ethical requirement for clinical practices. The second section argues that conversion practices are prima facie unethical due to their negative relationship to expressive equality. The third section demonstrates that conversion practices do not overcome this prima facie case given the available evidence. The fourth section explores the implications of my arguments for the law and other clinical practices.
Conversion Practices are Prima Facie Unacceptable
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See for example Green, R., “Banning Therapy to Change Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity in Patients Under 18,” Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry Law 45, no. 1 (2017): 7–11. It could be suggested that, to the contrary, that there is equally strong if not stronger evidence of the harmfulness of trans conversion practices. A comparative analysis of the scientific literature is, however, beyond the scope of the present paper.Google ScholarPubMed
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I use the word transantagonism instead of transphobia to avoid the connotation of “fear”, to center its oppositional and hostile role in trans lives, and to avoid the clinical undertones of “phobia”.Google Scholar
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The only thing sick about being trans are the memes we make.Google Scholar
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Moreover, calling trans people depraved freaks just for being trans is really insulting to those of us trans folk who work really hard to be depraved freaks.Google Scholar
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In other words, those who resort to the null hypothecis may open themselves up to litigaytion.Google Scholar
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Excellent response to the NYT recent article questioning the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria in children & adolescents.
(https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/puberty-blockers-side-effects-controversy.html)
(https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/puberty-blockers-side-effects-controversy.html)
The NYT’s Big Piece on Puberty Blockers Mucked Up the Most Important Point About Them
Here’s a more straightforward look at what the drugs do, and what the downsides and benefits can be.
EVAN URQUHART
NOV 17, 202211:10 AM
On Monday, the New York Times published an article billed as an in-depth look at puberty blockers as a treatment for gender dysphoria in youth. It wasn’t a guide to the science of the medication, or even just a look at the disagreements in clinical protocol among specific doctors who treat teens. Instead, the piece grappled with whether young trans people should be treated with puberty blockers at all.
It’s a common error for certain journalists to make—viewing an essential piece of transgender health care as a newfangled, untested invention that may pose grave harm. It’s a bias I hope the paper of record seriously considers in its future coverage. In the meantime, as a trans journalist, I wanted to offer a more straightforward look at what puberty blockers are, and how they can help some patients. It’s true they have downsides and that they aren’t right for every young person with gender dysphoria—but this is true of every medication, no matter the patient population. The mainstream medical consensus is that blockers are a useful tool in treating gender dysphoria, and more data is coming in all the time to support their efficacy in the patients for whom they’re indicated. They are currently used only by a small percentage of trans-identifying youth.
Puberty blockers are drugs that disrupt the release of sex hormones. The primary drug used is called Lupron, and it has been prescribed for over 30 years, in a variety of medical contexts, to treat both children and adults. In addition to being used for prostate cancer, for endometriosis, and to address the distressing psychological effects of early puberty, it’s used (rarely!) to halt puberty for adolescents experiencing severe gender dysphoria.
A good starting place for thinking about puberty blockers—one the Times mentions only in passing—is to consider their use in children with precocious puberty. This is a deeply distressing condition, for both children and parents, in which a young child begins to develop the secondary sex characteristics more typically found in adolescents. This results in looking different from their peers, which can cause social issues. There can also be a lot of stress associated with early menstruation or other pubertal changes.
Gender-dysphoric youth, coincidentally, can also experience psychological and social benefits from these same drugs. Pausing puberty can allow youth to be accepted socially and prevent the intense psychological distress that so often accompanies puberty in gender-dysphoric teens. These are the great benefit of the drugs, as well as the fact that they’re entirely reversible, meaning that if treatment is stopped, puberty will recommence normally. There are side effects, but the mainstream medical consensus has been that these drugs are well known in other applications, and that for trans youth, as for other populations, the benefits can outweigh the risks.
The Times, however, does not seem to trust that medical consensus view. Instead, it focuses on one potential issue: reduced bone density. Bone density increases greatly in adolescence, under the influence of sex hormones. By halting puberty, Lupron also halts the expected increase in bone density. A 2017 investigation by Kaiser Health News looked at women who had used Lupron as teens to delay precocious puberty and who later in life reported side effects like osteoporosis and cracking teeth. It is difficult to suss out whether these side effects were definitely caused by Lupron, the Kaiser Health News investigation concluded.
For youth with preexisting bone density issues, all this may be a reason not to arrest puberty, for whatever reason, using blockers. For other youth, the best practice is to discuss the potential risks and benefits. If the drugs are the right choice, a doctor should conduct regular bone density scans if the youth and family decide to move ahead with treatment. The Times piece notes two instances in which young people on blockers did not receive appropriate bone scans during treatment; one of those patients “developed osteoporosis and sustained a compression fracture in his spine.” But this oversight seems like a point in favor of improving access to health care for trans youth, not limiting it. It’s also important to note that laws introduced in states like Tennessee and Florida to outlaw blockers for gender-dysphoric youth have all included language allowing them to be used to prevent early puberty.
Another useful comparison point is psychiatric medications, such as SSRIs, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotics. These medications often have quite severe side effects, and their use in children has been criticized, though never at the level of the current moral panic over puberty blockers.
There are genuine quibbles to be had with how, say, SSRIs are prescribed—namely, doctors could do a better job of discussing the downsides and helping patients access other treatment options like talk therapy. There should be more research into side effects like decreased sexual functioning. But the locus of those discussions should be between the provider and the patients; it’s not a question of whether they are prescribed but of giving patients the right information and space to ask questions before either beginning a prescription or deciding it’s not right for them. The same holds true of puberty blockers. Ironically, most alternative treatments for the depression and anxiety and suicidal ideation caused by untreated gender dysphoria are likely to involve psychiatric medications—which can themselves, particularly antipsychotics, come with severe side effects.
None of this context was mentioned by the Times. Something that was mentioned, but downplayed, is how few kids are actually being treated with puberty blockers in the U.S. There are over 25 million youth between the ages of 12 and 17 in this country. The best estimate of how many children are on puberty blockers, according to a recent Reuters investigation, is roughly 5,000. The percentage of U.S. children from 13 to 17 on puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, therefore, calculates to .02 percent. The Times estimates that 300,000 U.S. youth identify as trans. Five thousand is less than 2 percent of those trans-identifying youth. A much, much higher percentage of youth have been on a diet.
If that picture were to change with new data, best practices and recommendations of the medical establishment would change in order to reflect that. At this time, fearmongering aside, there is no reason to believe that puberty blockers are not a safe and effective treatment option for youth experiencing severe gender dysphoria. The only reason to fear kids’ using them stems from a fear of trans people themselves.
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(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/reckless-ny-times-reporting-fuels-disinformation-trans-youth/)
Reckless NY Times reporting fuels disinformation about trans youth
The NY Times’ analysis of this data is so misleading that some advocates question the motives behind the piece: “This is not investigative journalism.”
Erin Rook
Friday, November 18, 2022
While public sentiment toward transgender people in the U.S. continues to warm, anti-transgender campaigners are exploiting the public’s uncertainty about trans youth to promote Florida-style bans on gender-affirming care.
Claims about the irreversible dangers of transition-related care were once the bread and butter of far-right pundits, they have officially entered the mainstream with Monday’s front-page story in The New York Times: “Pressing Pause on Puberty. Drugs Can Buy Time for Trans Youth. Is There a Cost?”
And the stakes couldn’t be higher. Boston Children’s Hospital has been on the receiving end of at least three bomb threats this year due to misinformation about health care for transgender youth being provided there.
The piece hinges on what the authors describe as “emerging evidence of potential harm” related to the use of puberty-suppressing medications for transgender youth. But transgender health experts say that the data referenced in the Times‘ reporting comes to a different conclusion. The Times’ analysis of this data is so misleading that some advocates are questioning the motives behind the piece.
I talked with three experts – a trans advocate and educator, a psychology researcher, and a gender-affirming healthcare provider – to better understand what the Times got wrong and why it matters. Their criticisms touched on a range of issues including the data, the sources, and the framing of the issues. Many of these concerns are echoed by transgender people and care providers across the country.
Dr. Quinnehtukqut McLamore, a psychology researcher familiar with the studies on gender-affirming care, criticized The Times’ interpretation of the data about puberty blockers. Dr. Quinnehtukqut McLamore
“Basically, any way you slice it, this is not investigative journalism,” said Dr. Quinnehtukqut McLamore, who has a Ph.D. in Psychology and conducts research at the University of Missouri at Columbia. “This is storytelling and editorializing from science they – at best – don’t understand because they don’t apply a logical lens to it.”
Critics of the Times piece said the reporters did get a few things right: More research on transgender health topics is needed. The reticence of drug companies to conduct research with transgender people creates barriers for FDA approval. Bone scans are beneficial for youth before and during treatment with puberty blockers.
And the most concerning is the fear that research findings could be exploited in the current political climate.
The Times article is itself a clear example of this exploitation in action and is arguably more dangerous than the transparently transphobic content published by opponents of trans rights. By echoing their claims in an ostensibly objective news outlet with a large, mainstream audience, the authors lend legitimacy to hateful extremists.
Many of the false claims promoted by those who believe gender-affirming care is tantamount to child abuse are presented to readers as if they’re objective fact. While this would be dangerous enough in an opinion piece, the Times framed this reporting as a well-vetted public service piece:
As growing numbers of adolescents who identify as transgender are prescribed drugs to block puberty, the treatment is becoming a source of confusion and controversy.
We spent months scouring the scientific evidence, interviewing doctors around the world and speaking to patients and families.
Here’s a closer look at what we found.
The celebratory response from far-right pundits is revealing. The Daily Wire‘s Matt Walsh, whose film What is a Woman? manipulates the documentary format in an attempt to legitimize harmful transphobic myths, took credit for “[forcing] the NYT to admit that puberty blockers are dangerous.”
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
We forced the NYT to admit that puberty blockers are dangerous. They’re a decade late and deserve no credit or applause. But it’s still great news because it shows that our movement is winning. We’re dragging left wing institutions into the light, kicking and screaming.
12:38 PM · Nov 14, 2022
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Gay Army
12 Nov 2022
@ramaisonline
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What rights don’t trans people have?
Katy Montgomerie
Sep 3 ·
26 min read
A list of the rights that trans people are missing in order to be equal to cis people around the world.
This is a live document and is not exhaustive. If you know of a right missing in your country, or you have an article to back up one mentioned (even if it already has a source), please comment below or contact me on Twitter.
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(https://tgeu.org/trans-rights-map-2021/)
Trans Rights Map 2021 documents alarming loss in trans rights
Posted on 17. May 2021 in Legal Gender Recognition, Research, Law, discrimination & human rights, Health & Depathologisation
On the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, TGEU is launching an interactive version of its Trans Rights Map in English and Russian.
TGEU Trans Rights Map illustrates the legal situation of 49 countries in Europe and 5 in Central Asia. It shows country-specific requirements for legal gender recognition, as well as existing protections for trans people in asylum, hate crime/speech, non-discrimination, health, and family.
This year’s Trans Rights Map documents an alarming loss in rights when compared to 2020. While progressive countries in Europe and Central Asia have slowed down in increasing protections for trans people, moderate countries have often stalled progress altogether. Worse yet, a growing number of countries have been aggressively removing rights from trans people.
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(https://www.asherfergusson (dot) com/lgbtq-travel-safety/)
The 150 Worst (& Safest) Countries for LGBTQ+ Travel in 2021
Updated March 23, 2021
Asher & Lyric Fergusson
A study of the world’s most popular countries for LGBTQ+ travel reveals the good, the average & the ugly
Instead of relying on hearsay and anecdotes from other travelers, we took a deep look at LGBTQ+ rights, country by country. After 250+ hours of research, we’ve reviewed all countries’ individual laws and gathered data from a variety of trusted international sources to create the definitive “LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Index” that will help you find the safest (and least safe) countries for your next trip abroad.
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Canadian Women’s Foundation – anti-Domestic Violence hand signal.
(https://youtu.be/nUJV-9wvdB8)
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(https://www.facebook.com/transarmy/posts/430613675100483)
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=430613675100483&id=100179361477251)
Trans Army
(2 Nov 21)
Our Word is not good enough.
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Prior TDOR posts. Apparently, I posted my 2020 entry on my Facebook page, but not here at this Slim and Me web-site.
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(https://slimandme.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/trans-day-of-remembrance-2019/)
‘Trans Day of Remembrance – 2019’ (2019)
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(https://slimandme.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/stop-just-stop/)
‘STOP!!! JUST STOP!!!’ (2018)
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(https://slimandme.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/tdor-uncle-frank-and-cousin-steve/)
‘TDOR, Uncle Frank, And Cousin Steve’ (2017)
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(https://slimandme.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/another-tdor/)
‘Another TDOR’ (2016)
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TDOR has been happening for many years.
Then why!
Both national network news and local news make scant mention of it, if at all. If all members of our own Trans community don’t know of TDOR, then how can we expect non-members to be aware! Let’s see about whether and how much the national and local news report this year’s events.
Lack of awareness is because of said paucity of the publicity distributed among the population in general – the world beyond the Trans community has no concern for our well-being, therefore no concern for those whom they murder and no concern to publicise the slaughter of our Trans community members.
One of the elements that really bothers me during the reading of these names is the number of ‘Name Unknown’:
How can that be?
How can a family or social circle allow someone of their own to be murdered as ‘Name Unknown’?
How can a legal system and news process be satisfied that they have done their job concluding with ‘Name Unknown’?!
– Sharon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Day_of_Remembrance).
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Safe access to public restrooms is an essential need for participation in civic life, in the workplace, in educational settings, and other public spaces. This is no different for transgender people. However, access to public restrooms according to gender identity has sparked controversy to the extent that transgender people face embarrassment and even expulsion from these spaces. The lack of access of the transgender population to public restrooms has a negative impact on the physical and mental health of this population. Thus, this article aims to address the main consequences that the ban on the use of bathrooms has for the transgender population, specifically the access of transgender women to the women’s restroom. We covered some legal aspects of “bathroom laws” and the main arguments in this discussion. We understand that the prohibition of access to the restroom constitutes a form of gender violence and discrimination, as we conclude that the arguments that express concerns about safety are not supported.
Slim and Me 
