In honor of the too many lost, The BiCast roundtable spoke with Debi
Jackson about Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of
Remembrance (#TDOR).
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What is the Transgender Day of Remembrance?
The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started by transgender
advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita
Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil
commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence that year and
began an important memorial that has become the annual Transgender Day
of Remembrance.
"The Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight
the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no
stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply
exist is first and foremost. 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."
- Transgender Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Please visit http://tdor.info/ to find a #TDOR vigil or event in your area.
