Thread:MagicDaydreamer/@comment-44413161-20191120205426

This...isn't a happy day, but it is an important day to acknowledge. If people aren't educated, they're never going to realize the need for change.

In short, Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day where we remember transgender people who were murdered for being trans.

The average life expectancy of a trans person is less than 40 years, due to murder and suicide rates.

Remember the people who died because of their gender and body. Remember the people who died because they were themselves. Men, women, nonbinary - adults, teens, and kids. Humans.

I posted a link on another site, though I'm not sure if it'd be allowed here.

Anyways,

"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."

-Gwendolyn Ann Smith, founder of TDoR 