Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance

[Behind the Aegis]

The transgender community has endured attacks on all fronts in 2018. From the White House, there came bursts of shockingly anti-LGBT policy—like a definition of “sex” in a federal agency memo that would erase transgender people from civil rights law. At the same time, on the streets and in their homes, transgender people continued to face the same steady, horrifying thrum of physical violence.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, at least 22 transgender people have been killed so far this year. All but one were transgender women. The vast majority were black. And due to a pattern of local media outlets simply relaying the information in police reports, the fact that they were transgender was often not publicly known until days, sometimes weeks, after they were killed.

The factors that give rise to anti-transgender violence are manifold and interconnected: The community faces rampant employment discrimination and social rejection, making poverty and homelessness a reality for too many.


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[Celerity]

1. I stand with all my fellow LGBTQ folk!

[Fatemah2774]

2. And often dead naming ximea to play

The media will dead name a transgender person by using their birth name rather than the bane they used in their lifetime.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[lapucelle]

4. I stand with you.

[JI7]

5. the Transgender Community is probably one of the groups most demonized as being a threat

while in reality they are probably the ones who are the biggest target of attacks.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. Ssdly, very true.

[gademocrat7]

6. I stand with you.

This hate and discrimination must end.

[Tribalceltic]

7. I Stand With You

and it is a pleasure and an honor to!

[ZeroSomeBrains]

8. K&R