Trans Day of Remembrance

November 20th

Trans Day of Remembrance is a way of remembering the trans people that we have lost over the decades, from all over the world.

TDoR was started by Gwendolyn Ann Smith in 1998, after a trans woman named Rita Hester was killed in Boston. Gwendolyn started a website called Remembering Our Dead to keep a record of the deaths of trans people.

Finally, a year later, trans people in Boston and San Francisco held a vigil to honour Rita’s life. This also marked the first Transgender Day of Remembrance. Whilst at the vigil, Gwendolyn read out the names of trans people that had previously been killed, which is something that is still done today.

Sometimes we don’t know the names of all the people who aren’t here anymore, but (trigger warning for violence) translivesmatter.info has done their best to collate them all and put them together.

DMC wanted to do something similar, so we’ve taken the names and dates of deaths and put them all into a list in date order.

translivesmatter.info has listed the ways each person died, the country they died in, and the age they died at. They have also presented the stories of how people have died, different statistics, and overall aim to be a support system for anyone involved in Trans Day of Remembrance.

DMC wants to show our support, solidarity, and respect for the dead, by listing the names of those our community has lost.