Transgender Day of Remembrance
Monday 16 November 2009
Transgender Day of Remembrance
The Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded on 20th November 1999 to mark the death of Rita Hester, an American trans woman. Since then it has developed into a global collection of vigils and events held annually to remember all those who have lost their lives due to transphobic hatred and prejudice. Each year the names of those known to have died are gathered and spoken as a symbol of our resistance to the continuation of transphobic hate crimes.
The international Transgender Day of Remembrance website http://www.transgenderdor.org lists the names of those known to have lost their lives due to transphobic hatred in the last year.
Over the last twelve months, 162 transgender people were reported to have been killed, including two trans women murdered in England within a month of each other:
Andrea Waddell
Age: 29
Location: Brighton
Date of Death: October 15, 2009
Destiny Lauren
Age: 29
Location: Kentish Town, London
Date of Death: November 5, 2009
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The following Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009 events have been arranged in Scotland so far:
Glasgow
Thursday, November 19, 2009
1pm & 6pm at Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/showEvent.cfm?venueid=3&itemid=1219
Edinburgh
Saturday, November 21, 2009
1pm at T-Time, LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, Edinburgh
http://www.lgbthealth.org.uk
5pm at MCC Edinburgh, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
http://www.mccedinburgh.org
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The script created by the Scottish Transgender Alliance's TRANSforming Arts group for last year's Transgender Day of Remembrance can be downloaded from http://www.scottishtrans.org/Uploads/Resources/transformingarts_tdor.pdf