November 20, Transgender Day of Remembrance

[Budi]

From Cosmopolitan
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a34742400/transgender-day-of-remembrance-2020/

SNIP

Today, November 20, is Transgender Day of Remembrance. The observance grew out of a vigil for Rita Hester, a member of the Boston LGBTQ+ community who worked locally on education around trans issues and nurtured many of the city’s LGBTQ+ youth. She was killed in her home on November 28, 1998, a few days shy of her 35th birthday. Twenty-two years later, her murder has not been solved.

On the first anniversary of Hester's death, trans advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith organized a vigil to commemorate Hester and all transgender people lost to violence since her death. That vigil began the tradition that is Transgender Day of Remembrance.
“When the Transgender Day of Remembrance first began, trans people were nameless victims in many cases," Smith wrote in 2014 for The Advocate. "Our killers would do their best to erase our existence from the world. And law enforcement, the media, and others would continue the job."

This year, at least 34 transgender or gender non-conforming people have been murdered by violent means in the United States. This number is likely higher; victims are, to this day, often misgendered in local police statements and media reports, which can delay awareness of deadly incidents.

[CatLady78]

1. K&R

Saddening.....
Lgbtq rights are improving a bit in India:

From Wikipedia:

In 2018, in a landmark decision Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India, the Supreme Court of India decriminalised consensual homosexual intercourse by reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and excluding consensual homosexual sex between adults from its ambit.[10] Homosexuality was never illegal or a criminal offence in ancient Indian and traditional codes but was criminalised by the British during their rule in India.

[Budi]

3. We need a CAT 5 global power shift all at the same time.

It shouldn't be so difficult to just be a human being.

[marble falls]

2. I just have no words. These are our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters ...

... and friends.