Transgender Day of Remembrance

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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. As the name implies it is about remembering trans people, mostly those that are victims of violence. In particular color trans women are the most at risk and are skirted over extremely often in crime reports.

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Raquel is a good friend of mine from college. We met in our first semester in drawing class. Her interview on NPR is definitely worth a listen :)

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[DarkZero]

My friend is in an environment where she's comfortable expressing herself, so I'm glad for that.

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Something Awful user O'riginal made a really great post about the day in the Trans Megathread.

Transgender Day of Remembrance was heart-rending. The ceremony I attended was held at Living Table United Church of Christ in Minneapolis.

They had a list of85trans folks killed from Nov 21, 2014 to Nov 20, 2015. Each person’s death is reviewed to make sure the victim was actually killed for being trans, and not for some unrelated reason.

There is a specific procedure when each person’s name is read.

- A number is called.
- Someone in the audience stands up, walks to the front and reads a card with the person’s name, age, circumstances of death, date of death, and place of death.
- A candle is lit and placed in a wide dish, sand-filled so the candle will stand up.
- A bell is rung.
- The audience members say, “We will remember you”.

All that,85times. Very sobering. When we got up to around #60, some of the candles (actually tapers, very thin candles) had burnt all the way down; by the end, most of them were all the way down and a lot of smoke was rising into the church’s high ceiling.

Many of us went up multiple times to read one person’s name; I went three times, the impact slowly growing as I heard the number called: a final countdown.

I know this is an unpleasant thing, and don't wish to dwell on it, but ..eighty-five persons, murdered for being trans. A big percentage of them were from Brazil, although the U.S. had several, too. Go USA!

There is some discussion on the "85" part, because it's possible to be a MUCH larger number

http://transrespect.org/en/map/trans-mu ... p=tmm_2015

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^ I doubt very many people in America are killed for being trans alone, although I (probably ignorantly) view almost every other country a deathtrap. I'd never leave this continent and probably never go to Mexico. Those who were definitely shouldn't have been though, and I do feel sorry for them all and their families.

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^85 out of 300,000,000 may not seem like very many at first, but we're talking about murder here, so it's definitely an "any is too many" situation.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

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[QUOTE="CaptHayfever, post: 1574435, member: 25169"]^85 out of 300,000,000 may not seem like very many at first, but we're talking about murder here, so it's definitely an "any is too many" situation.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"[/QUOTE]

1 is too many. I was just disagreeing with the idea that there's a "MUCH larger number," especially in America.