2022
slides: https://tinyurl.com/fp5ytx2z
The first Trans Day of Remembrance was in 1999 to memorialize Rita Hester, a Black woman murdered in Massachusetts the previous year.
Rita Hester
By 2010, TDoR was observed in 185 cities.
This is from the one in Ottawa in 2010.
Source: https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2022
Source: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2022/#suicide-by-gender
There's 25 million 12-17 year olds in the US
1.4% of youth in the US identify as trans/nb
1 in 5 of those attempt suicide
1 in 25 of those will die
Sources: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/
https://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp
Photo from Unsplash, not actual bigots AFAIK.
The director of advocacy of an anti-trans hate group is executive editor at The Economist
Source: https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/helen-joyce-joins/
Info: https://www.buzzfeed.com/meredithtalusan/25-years-of-transphobia-in-comedies
It's everything leading up to that point and what made it more statistically likely to begin with, what undermines resilience thereafter, etc.
Info: https://www.pledge.to/protect-defend-trans-youth-fund
Info: https://translifeline.org/
TransLash Media
Imara Jones
Info: https://translash.org/
One from the Vaults
Morgan M Page
Info: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/one-from-the-vaults/id1071270085
I Hope We Choose Love
Kai Cheng Thom
Info: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44000539-i-hope-we-choose-love
Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist
Cecilia Gentili
Info: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61629767-faltas
The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren’t treated the way I was, they’re treated like humans, with valid feelings and human rights. Gender needs to be taught about in schools, the earlier the better.
My death needs to mean something. My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want someone to look at that number and say “that’s fucked up” and fix it. Fix society. Please.
- Leelah Alcorn, died aged 17