11th Transgender Day of Remembrance
I've been trying to think of something appropriate to write about this for the past few hours and I just can't come up with anything. There are no words really to describe how I feel about the death of so many Transfolk. This year there has been an unprecedented amount and I just keep hoping that the reason the figure has risen so drastically over the last 12 months is because the deaths are being reported. The word is getting out and these people are not dying unnoticed and forgotten.
The past three or four weeks, I have buried myself in the lives of those people killed in the UK since 1970. I have researched for hours, trying to find as much information as I can about their deaths and then searched again for a photo in order to put a face with that name.* It's been the most depressing job I've had to do since I've been a Trans Support Worker and it's also been the one that's made me the most scared for my own safety. Reading about brutal murders will do that to you, I know, but I shouldn't have that worry. No one should. In this day, in this country, why are Transpeople still dying? What are people afraid we will do to them?
There are events all over the world tonight and over the next few days to remember the 167 people lost this year and the nearly 600 lost in total over the past 40 or so years. The Manchester vigil is on Sunday at 3.30 in Sackville Gardens.
* If anyone is interested in the Powerpoint presentation I put together, then let me know.
The past three or four weeks, I have buried myself in the lives of those people killed in the UK since 1970. I have researched for hours, trying to find as much information as I can about their deaths and then searched again for a photo in order to put a face with that name.* It's been the most depressing job I've had to do since I've been a Trans Support Worker and it's also been the one that's made me the most scared for my own safety. Reading about brutal murders will do that to you, I know, but I shouldn't have that worry. No one should. In this day, in this country, why are Transpeople still dying? What are people afraid we will do to them?
There are events all over the world tonight and over the next few days to remember the 167 people lost this year and the nearly 600 lost in total over the past 40 or so years. The Manchester vigil is on Sunday at 3.30 in Sackville Gardens.
* If anyone is interested in the Powerpoint presentation I put together, then let me know.