Today illustrates the importance of transgender representation worldwide, especially as transgender and gender-nonconforming people face risks every day.
The importance of transgender representation While the Transgender Day of Remembrance (or TDOR) is held every year on November 20 to memorialize the transgender people who have lost their lives as a result of anti-transgender violence, TDOV is a day dedicated to honor and empower the lives of transgender and nonbinary people.
It was started as a day of awareness to celebrate the successes of transgender and gender-nonconforming people and is an important day for the LGBTQ community. Transgender Day of Visibility (or TDOV) was founded in 2009 by Rachel Crandall, a Michigan-based transgender activist and the Executive Director of Transgender Michigan. With transgender visibility in the US at an all-time high in politics, media and sports, today is a day for allies and advocates to show up and show support. More about.Today, transgender and nonbinary people around the world will recognize International Transgender Day of Visibility. Together, we grieve, we fight, we hope, we love. Together, we must take action to change oppressive structures, protect trans lives, and end all forms of violence.
Hold policy and decision makers accountable. Donate to community services directed at trans people, especially trans people that face intersectional marginalisation. Treasure and support trans people who are alive. On Trans Day of Remembrance, we encourage you to join our fight for trans rights. For our communities, it is a day when we pause and mourn the deaths of our beloved siblings, whose lives were cut short by violence and hate. Trans Day of Remembrance is a tragic reminder of how far cis-hetero-patriarchal normative and other oppressive systems are willing to go to suppress the existence of trans and gender diverse people. We need your active support to ensure that trans rights and trans lives are not sidelined or forgotten. The battle to ensure that our basic human rights are upheld includes advocating at the national and international levels for access to self-determined legal gender recognition, gender-affirming healthcare, education, sustainable housing, safety, and security. To overcome these challenges, trans people and human rights defenders continue to mobilise and resist these systems that abuse their power to dehumanise us. The COVID-19 pandemic, along with the rise of the anti-gender movements, has made an already difficult set of circumstances more complicated. Trans people with intersecting identities, including trans women, Black and people of colour, sex workers, migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, Roma, people with disabilities, those living with HIV, to name just a few, are even more vulnerable when trans rights are eroded.ĭespite the strengthening of our movement in the last decade, which has resulted in greater public awareness and significant legal victories, our communities continue to face high levels of violence, social discrimination, poor health outcomes, economic hardship, unemployment, and homelessness. Trans and gender-diverse people around the world continue to face tremendous amounts of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, stigma, marginalisation and oppression. Iratxe Otero was a 29 year-old Colombian trans woman who had migrated to Spain and was found stabbed near a shopping centre. 
Adriana Diaz was a Venezuelan immigrant living in Colombia who was brutally lynched and murdered by more than 20 male taxi drivers. Thyanara Moraes was a Brazilian 18-year-old Black trans woman and sex worker who was shot in her bed. Between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021, the Trans Murder Monitoring registered 375 reports of trans and gender-diverse people killed worldwide.Įbeng Mayor, a 21-year-old trans masculine non-binary person from the Philippines, was raped, beaten, and murdered. As we mark Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), we take a moment to honour those in our communities who were murdered over the past year.
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