What is the National Transgender Day Of Remembrance?

What is the National Transgender Day Of Remembrance?

The National Transgender Day Of Remembrance is a day that trans people especially have chosen to look back at all the trans people who were killed in the past year. We face violence on a statistically astronomical level. There are one or two trans women killed a month in the United States and if you consider how small out community is, that's a lot. If you think about living in a small town of a few thousand people and if one person a month was killed in that town every year, that would be outrageous. So In the National Transgender Day Of Remembrance, at the end of every year we look back on the people who were killed. It was started by Gwen Smith, she runs a website that catalogs all these women and it happens on the 20th of November every year. Gwen started it on that date to honor the murder of Rita Hesther who was a trans woman that was the final straw and Gwen just felt that it really needed to be paid attention to so she has put a lot of effort into getting that information out there and making sure that people listen to this ongoing tragedy.