![]() ![]() Gwendolyn Ann Smith introduced TDoR in 1999 as a visual way to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a black transgender woman murdered two days before her 35 th birthday in 1998. November 20, 2021, marks the 22 nd Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a time to reflect on the lives lost from anti-transgender violence over the past 12 months. – Gwendolyn Ann Smith, Transgender Day of Remembrance Founder 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.” I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. “Transgender day of remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. May your perpetual light shine upon them, always!Īnd may they rest in your everlasting peace.Highlighting the lives lost from anti-transgender bigotry and violence Where there is no longer hatred, shadow, illness nor death. The joy and love they have not experienced here, grant unto them in your eternal home. Give them justice oh, Lord for their blood cries out to you from the earth! This is our prayer and may all our prayers lead us to action in and through the name of all our fallen brethren and Jesus Christ, who died with and for them. ![]() Push us and move us to share in their movement for social justice, legal protection and equal rights. With this remembrance and realities, call us and strengthen us to continue to offer safe spaces for them and deliver messages of inclusion and hope for transgender and gender queer individuals. In their memory and for the sake of other transgender individuals here and everywhere, inspire us and push us to be in constant solidarity with the transgender community. ![]() They who have experienced such horror in this world may now experience love and acceptance in your eternal embrace. We include in holy remembrance all those other transgender individuals whose names and stories that were never reported and listed but are known to you, eternal One. Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, Pernambuco (Brazil)īelém do São Francisco, Pernambuco (Brazil)īan Sang District, Prachin Buri (Thailand)Īnd we remember and include in this holy remembrance the rest of the 390 transgender individuals who died or were murdered. Sarahí Atenea also known as Saray Ramos Izaguirreĭera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) Renata Cavalcante also known as Renata Ferraz And so we pronounce some of their names in solemn remembrance: NAME No one should ever be abused and murdered because of their gender identity and expression yet this is the reality of our world today. We lift up to you their names, their stories, their struggles and their horrible death. Let us Pray: Holy and Loving One, we lift up to you these names of our transgender siblings and doing so remember them. From the 390 reports we have listed 70 names, representing all reported countries. Open Table MCC as part of the 1 st and oldest Christian denomination founded on the acceptance of LGBTQI+ people, we share in the sorrow and the indignation for the murder of our transgender sisters, brothers and siblings. We are also reminded of the many other struggles of transgender people with the lack or limited economic opportunities and social services while experiencing continuous discrimination and facing the constant threat of violence everywhere. TDOR reminds us of the real and present danger of being transgender or gender queer in many places especially in developing countries such as the Philippines and many Latin American countries and in Islamic states like Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Pakistan as well as in the Arab and African nations. This information was taken from the website – īut we know that in reality there are many more who were and are not reported or known. There have been 390 reported and recorded deaths of transgender individuals covering October 2021 to September 2022 globally (19 less than the previous year), majority of which come from Latin American countries, highest of which is Brazil at 107 individuals killed or died of suicide. Each year the LGBTQI+ community in many places mark November 20 th as Transgender day of Remembrance (TDOR) where we remember and raise our voices for the countless fallen transgender and gender queer individuals who were tortured, murdered, raped, died of suicide or died because of poverty and homelessness in a society that would rather not have them. ![]()
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