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#transgender day of remembrance
weiwei-uplink · 4 months
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I love you all
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catboybiologist · 4 months
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Can I do one of those sappy "highlight/visibility" posts? It's not my usual vibe, but this is my first transgender day of remembrance since starting HRT and coming out to a few friends, and it has me feeling some kind of way.
So here's to the trans people that didn't "know they were different" from day one. The ones that don't have the stories about playing with dolls, or monster trucks, or wearing clothes atypical for their AGAB. The ones who took their first doses of estrogen and didn't have an immediate parting of the clouds, or lifting of a fog, but rather started a journey.
The trans people that had a growing seed of discomfort and no words to describe it. The ones with the vague horror of inhabiting a body that was betraying them but didn't know in what way. The ones that may have dissociated to cope and buried it deep.
The ones who are fighting and navigating through it now. The ones who are still unsure to take that first step.
The ones who figured it out on the other side. The ones who had to chisel and create who they were. The ones with a complicated relationship with their actual gender in addition to their AGAB. The ones who created who they are, and came out as a happy, loving person, despite not feeling like their identity was "defined" somewhere internally.
You are not alone, you are loved, and you are supported. You *will* make it, and you will be happier for it. You are welcome in this community, no matter what. You have the right to discover yourself. Your pain is real, but your identity is too. Every trans experience is different and beautiful in its own way.
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sodomyordeath · 1 year
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.
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blackqueernotables · 4 months
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On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn those lost to anti-trans violence, celebrate trans lives, and recommit to making the world safer and more just for trans people.
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partypuppynastja · 1 year
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Transgender Day of Remembrance
This year’s official list has 327 names:
Those murdered were disproportionately women, usually around my age, more often women of colour. Many more will have gone unreported, and/or misgendered in their deaths.
One of those murders is from my native UK—there was also an attempted murder not far from here though, a trans woman stabbed on her doorstep. Fortunately, she survived. I wonder how many other non-fatal attacks were made in the same year.
51 were in the US; that’s more than one per state. Brazil was worst, with 96 (with a similar population size).
9 were tortured to death; another 3 burned alive; another 3 dismembered.
It can be hard to understand why people hate us so much. We’re mostly just trying to live our lives. I guess we’re an easy target, and dehumanised enough in popular media that our deaths elicit little care. I remember the first time I read in a newspaper about a trans woman being killed, the headline was written as a punchline, “transvestite beaten to death with hoe”, and the article was worse. 
Fast-forward and today the jokes normalising such violence get Netflix specials, and the more serious hate-mongers get #IStandWith— hashtags in their support, as they go on their “I’ve been cancelled” tour and given every platform available. Politicians debate, and “sensible centrists” call for understanding from both sides, which tends to amount to “well we must understand that trans people can’t help being trans, and trans people must understand that we have Legitimate Concerns™ that if we don’t take seriously enough will just result in violence against trans people”. And so the microphone gets passed to the transphobe-du-jour.
Eventually, the world will get better. Education improves, community (and thus a little safety) is easier to find, transphobes start to realise history will judge their crimes like every other bigotry and ‘phobia and ‘ism. Those who are “not transphobic but” will learn to put aside their biases; those who are openly transphobic will become “not transphobic but”. It may never die out, just like racism hasn’t, just like homophobia hasn’t, and so forth, but it will get better. We just have to live to see it.
And that gives me strength sometimes, gives me an extra reason to survive when I don’t always want to. Transphobes want to see me die, and I will do my level best to thrive instead. It’s not easy and sometimes I feel like a flower growing through concrete. 
But like a flower growing through concrete, I know where I’ve come from and I know where I’m going. I can’t know whether I’ll make it, but I know I must keep trying, and the further I get, the easier it will get along the way. It doesn’t mean there won’t be the occasional storm, or freeze. But, there’s sunshine too. There is love in the world; there is hope.
We owe it to the fallen to live, to thrive, and to strive to make things better in this world.
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vegandalist · 4 months
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I hope especially fellow trans people have a meaningful trans remembrance day. We are and always will be here, and we cannot be erased. As we mourn the losses our community has faced this year, we will remember those who have passed and all the great things they did. You are thought about and loved.
💙💗🤍💗💙
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robynochs · 4 months
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November 20th marks Transgender Day of Remembrance; a day to honor and mourn trans and gender-diverse people who have died from transphobic violence. 🏳️‍⚧️ Today and every day, I stand with my trans siblings and continue to fight for a world that protects and celebrates your existence.
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genderkoolaid · 1 year
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I've put together a carrd to keep a running list of violent acts done against transmasculine people.
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queerdisagreeable · 1 year
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{ID - three magnet poems, many words & phrases created by stacking multiple magnets
1 - "sorry to my unblood kin / you died / & I just wasted this given time / writing my weary poems / living under shadow / morning (mourning) like I know you"
2 - "you can't / bring them home / love them now"
3 - "transgender / day of / honour"
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i don't want flowers on my grave. i want them in a vase on my windowsill as i look out on another day where i'm safe and happy.
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morggo · 1 year
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#TDoR is not just a time to remember trans people lost to violence.
It is a time to examine systems that are complicit in trans violence and the role we play in them, so the systems of violence can be transformed.
Even more were killed globally: https://tgeu.org/trans-murder-monitoring-2023/
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alexeithegoat · 4 months
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Please keep every trans person who have passed in your hearts, mourn them and remember them. They lived so that we can too.
We have always been here, we will always be here.
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politijohn · 1 year
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My heart is heavy thinking about the victims, survivors, their loved ones, the LGBTQ community, and everyone who is sad and afraid today
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our-queer-experience · 4 months
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on posts for trans day of remembrance, a lot of it is faces we’ve all seen on the news but never known. i rarely see people talk about those they knew who were killed or committed suicide. who are you remembering today?
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azuremist · 1 year
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One of the victims of the gay club mass shooting was an Oklahoman trans man; murdered on the trans day of rememberance.
28-year-old Daniel Davis Aston posted this picture publicly not long after he moved from his home town to Colorado Springs, to work as a bartender at the bar which was targeted.
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This trans remembrance day, and every one from now on, we must remember Daniel like this: proud, fearless, and full of life.
Rest In Peace.
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