Today is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, an event that raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people. Sadly, 2020 is on track to be one of the deadliest in recent years for the transgender and gender non-conforming community.
“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