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\"Transtextuality<\/a>
Katie Herzog\u2019s\u00a0Transtextuality (Senate Bill 48)\u00a0is a collection of 48 portraits of inspirational Western trans women and men accomplished in the fields of science, philosophy, and literature. \u00a0 More here: http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/transgender\/2014\/11\/20\/these-48-trans-women-and-men-changed-world<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

This week has been Transgender Awareness Week, culminating in yesterday\u2019s Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), on which we honor trans people who have been victims of homicide. \u00a0 Some of you joined us yesterday in observance, \u00a0and we\u2019ve compiled a few resources for those of you who want to read more. \u00a0<\/em> The Transgender Violence Tracking Portal reports at least 270* trans people have been murdered in the last year alone, noting that those are only the reported incidents. \u00a0 The\u00a02014 report<\/a>**\u00a0from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs compiles incidents of violence perpetrated in 2013, breaking down statistics of victims and survivors by gender identity, race, sexual orientation and more, noting this about the increased risk of violence faced by transgender women especially:<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b>Transgender women were more likely to experience police violence, discrimination, harassment,\u00a0sexual violence, threats, and intimidation. Transgender women were more likely to experience hate\u00a0violence in shelters and in public areas. Transgender women were less likely to report to the police.\u00a0Much of the violence impacting transgender survivors and victims overall also impacted transgender women\u00a0to similar or heightened degrees, as transgender women experience hate violence that is oftentimes based on\u00a0both transphobia and sexism. The severity of violence reported by transgender women in 2013, compounded\u00a0by the high proportion of transgender women homicide victims, suggests that transgender women face an\u00a0alarming vulnerability to hate violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This piece<\/a>, by TDOR\u2019s founder\u00a0Gwendolyn Ann Smith, highlights some of the differences between 1988\u2019s TDOR inception and the way we celebrate TDOR now:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When the Transgender Day of Remembrance first began, trans people were nameless victims in many cases. \u00a0Our killers would do their best to erase our existence from the world. And law enforcement, the media, and others would continue the job. We would be regularly, consistently misgendered and labeled with names we did not choose \u2014 that is, when we weren\u2019t simply reported as \u201cunknown man in women\u2019s clothing\u201d or \u201cbearded woman.\u201d The increased visibility of the transgender community as a whole \u2014 and, by extension, TDOR \u2014 has changed things. It has not ended antitrans violence, but it has made it a lot harder to hide or cover up. When we are misgendered and misnamed by the media, we have the strength to correct. We are not forgotten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you want practical ways to help, here\u2019s a list of\u00a052 Things You Can Do for Trans Equality<\/a>. Believe Out Loud blogger Rev David Weekly offers thoughts<\/a> about the links between observing Christ\u2019s parable of the Good Samaritan and our observance of TDOR, and Rev. Jay Wilson put together a beautiful liturgy for TDOR <\/a>if you\u2019re looking for a way to incorporate observance into your church services this weekend. \u00a0 Much love.<\/p>\n

*\u2019Provided by the Transgender Violence Tracking Portal, www.transviolencetracker.org The information contained in this document are the REPORTED incidents. Not all incidents are reported or known. Copyright 2014\u2032<\/address>\n
** Stats taken from\u00a0LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER AND HIV-AFFECTED HATE VIOLENCE 2013 Report<\/a>, written by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programming.<\/address>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week has been Transgender Awareness Week, culminating in yesterday\u2019s Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), on which we honor trans people who have been victims of homicide. \u00a0 Some of you joined us yesterday in observance, \u00a0and we\u2019ve compiled a few resources for those of you who want to read more. \u00a0 The Transgender Violence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt"],"yoast_head":"\nTransgender Awareness Week<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week has been Transgender Awareness Week, culminating in yesterday's Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), on which we honor trans people who have\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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