Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023

TransFamily of Northwestern Pennsylvania would like to thank everyone who gathered together at Journey to a Trauma-Informed Life or via Facebook Live for this year's Transgender Day of Remembrance  (TDOR). TDOR is when we gather together to remember our Transgender siblings lost to anti-transgender violence. It is up to all of us to remember them since their killers, law enforcement, and the media often seek to erase their existence.

This year, participants read the names of 47 transgender individuals and shared reflections from their friends and family. Sadly, we know the number is much larger, and these are just the ones who have been proven and reported. TransFamily chooses to focus on the positive aspects of these lost siblings when remembering these lives taken far too soon.

Sadly, 87% of the victims were people of color. 50% were Black transgender women. 77% were killed with a gun. 43% of the known victims were killed by a romantic/sexual partner, friend, or family member. Finally, 50% were misgendered or deadnamed by authorities or the press. (Source: hrc.org)

For more information, you can check out the Human Rights Campaign's report "The Epidemic of Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in the United States" at https://reports.hrc.org/an-epidemic-of-violence-2023.

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