For Trans Day of Remembrance

[poetic_pixie_13]

TW: Transphobia, classism, homelessness, mentions of violence, abuse, suicide, murder, stats that are depressing as fuck

Transgender Day of Remembrance: A Call to House Our Homeless

Nov. 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance, or "TDOR," a day of memorial for those in the trans community who have been lost to violence.

Comments

[tabaqui]

Thanks for the posts - the first in particular is *not* main stream news, which sucks.

Is the gender identity/gender expression thing a problem because it could potentially be used to discriminate against trans* people who haven't had the physically altering surgery? Because if, say, their body is still 'biologically male' but they 'dress female', it 'doesn't count' in some minds or something?

I googled 'gender expression' and that's what comes to mind - what am i missing/misunderstanding?

[the_physicist]

Well, gender expression is important not only to trans* folk, but anyone perceived to be expressing their gender 'incorrectly' according to society. Often bigots don't care precisely how someone is LGBT+, it's enough that they see someone acting/dressing differently than they think that person should for them to discriminate against them or attack them.
Does that make sense?

[tabaqui]

Yeah, it does. Thanks!

[chasingtides]

Gender expression applies to more than just trans folks.

For example, it's very important to me (pre-surgery, pre-hormones) that my company is ok with me wearing menswear to work. I wear clearly obvious men's clothes (and at my current job have had only one guy ask me why and he took "I'm more comfortable in them" as a fine answer). It took a while to find that.

On the other hand, before I was out, I worked for a company that mandated pantyhose/stockings for women year round. Regardless of what else you were wearing. If my female boss wore capris into the office on the hottest day of the summer, she had to wear stockings with them - and it took fighting to get capris allowed and not just "dresses, skirts, and women's dress trousers" in the approved wardrobe. A lot of my less feminine female-identified friends would fare poorly under such strict rules, never mind people who are trans.

[tabaqui]

Ah ha. Okay. Thanks!

And wtf, hose? Still? I despise hose - the bane of my childhood. Can't believe any company would demand people wear them still.

[romp]

Yeah, I had hoped that sort of dress rule died out in the 1980s. :(