The U.S. State Department issued a caution alert, warning U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution related to violence against "LGBTQI+ persons and events.”
Trans Day of Remembrance wasn’t invented by the US, it was invented by Black trans women.
American Black trans women, in the US, where it was celebrated almost exclusively for a decade. Because society here in the US has to at least pretend to care about trans problems, unlike, say, Russia, or China.
Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1999 by a small group, including Gwendolyn Ann Smith,[4] Nancy Nangeroni, and Jahaira DeAlto,[5] to memorialize the murders of Black transgender women Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts,[6] and Chanelle Pickett in Watertown, Massachusetts.[7][8] After Hester’s death in 1998, Smith was surprised to realize that none of her friends remembered Pickett or her murder three years prior, saying "It really surprised me that it had already, in a short period of time, been forgotten, and here we were with another murder at the same site.”[8][9] The first TDoR took place in November 1999 in Boston and San Francisco, as both Hester and Pickett’s deaths occurred in November.
But we all know that truth or the health of trans folk comes second to “US GREAT SATAN” in your worldview.
Maybe attend a TDoR event this year? I think you are caught up on arguing mode right now, I don’t really care to engage with you in that way.
This is what I said:
Depends where you are in the United States… as well as your race and gender. Trans Day of Remembrance is a thing for a reason.
There is a lot of racialized violence in the US and you can’t deny that, and if you are a trans person of color you are doubly threatened. Trans white people get hate crimed too, but I was pointing out the particular and acute risk for black trans women … who invented TDoR.
It was not celebrated by “The US” (by which I mean, the government … mainstream Americans) for many years after it’s inception. As your wiki quote shows, it was a grassroots effort by members of the community.
American Black trans women, in the US, where it was celebrated almost exclusively for a decade. Because society here in the US has to at least pretend to care about trans problems, unlike, say, Russia, or China.
But we all know that truth or the health of trans folk comes second to “US GREAT SATAN” in your worldview.
Maybe attend a TDoR event this year? I think you are caught up on arguing mode right now, I don’t really care to engage with you in that way.
This is what I said:
There is a lot of racialized violence in the US and you can’t deny that, and if you are a trans person of color you are doubly threatened. Trans white people get hate crimed too, but I was pointing out the particular and acute risk for black trans women … who invented TDoR.
It was not celebrated by “The US” (by which I mean, the government … mainstream Americans) for many years after it’s inception. As your wiki quote shows, it was a grassroots effort by members of the community.