Transgender Day of Remembrance

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was started in 1999 by trans rights advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith to honour the memory of Rita Hester, a trans woman who was murdered in 1998. 

This tradition, initiated after Rita Hester’s death, became a way to commemorate all trans individuals who have been victims of violence, evolving into an important annual observance known as the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

“Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people — sometimes in the most brutal ways possible — it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice.”
– Transgender Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith

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