Feeling Disconnected from the Trans Day of Remembrance
Comments (5) Yesterday, November 20, was the 10th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. The goal, according to the linked website, is
…to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester’s murder — like most anti-transgender murder cases — has yet to be solved.
30 trans individuals were killed this year (that made the news, anyway), which is obviously a horrible number.
But I’ve been thinking about the TDOR all week, and am realizing how disconnected I feel from the whole concept, and from the larger trans (and even larger GLBT) community.
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