This afternoon, a Trans Day Of Remembrance pre-vigil meet-up has been organised by London LGBTQ+ Community Centre at 2:30 pm at Soho Square. People are allowed to bring in flowers, candles, and cards, while others prefer to recite poems and speeches to show their love and support for the community. It honours the lives of sex workers and people of colour lost to gender-based violence by reading their names out during the observance. The vigils are often conducted by transgender and LGBTQ communities at gardens, parks, community centres, and places of worship in local areas.
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‘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.’ How to participate in the vigil? Valerie Spencer and tributes by soul singer LZ Love and the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles. ceremony will include a speech by the Rev.
When did it start and who founded it?ĭating back to 1999, the Transgender Day of Remembrance was started by a transgender advocate, Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honour a black trans woman, Rita Hester who was murdered in her Boston apartment in 1998. West Hollywood will hold a virtual Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony Saturday evening, featuring a reading of names of people killed as a result of anti-transgender violence. Moreover, majority of the trans people especially women are at the highest risk of domestic violence and murder at the hands of their cis-gender or straight intimate partners.Īmy Griffiths, a 51-year -old trans woman, described as a ‘hero of the LGBT+ community’ was brutally murdered by Martin Saberi in 2021 in Worcestershire, England. It is the only annual event for LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Queer, non-binary, gender fluid, pansexual, asexual) and LGBTQQIP2SAA (Intersex, Pansexual, Two-spirit (2S), Androgynous and Asexual) that highlights the racism, sexism, discrimination, and harassment faced by them around the world.Īccording to Transrespect Versus Transphobia Worldwide (TvT), 375 trans and gender-diverse individuals were killed in 2021 which is also known as the ‘deadliest year on record for anti-trans homicides in the United States.’ The transgender community and allies spread awareness about their rights and equality throughout Transgender Awareness Week (Picture: Getty Images)
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