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Transgender Day of Remembrance

Index Transgender Day of Remembrance

The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), also known as the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, is observed annually on November 20 as a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia and to draw attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community. [1]

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Allston

Allston is an officially recognized neighborhood of the City of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Candis Cayne

Candis Cayne (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress and performance artist.

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CeCe McDonald

CeCe McDonald (born 1989) is an African American bi trans woman and LGBTQ activist.

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Dean Spade

Dean Spade (born 1977) is a lawyer, writer, and Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law.

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GLAAD

GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is a U.S. non-governmental media monitoring organization founded by LGBT people in the media.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith

Gwendolyn Smith is a transgender woman who founded Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to memorialize people who have been killed as a result of anti-transgender prejudice.

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Hate crime

A hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime or bias crime) is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership (or perceived membership) in a certain social group or race.

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History of transgender people in the United States

This article addresses the history of transgender people in the United States from prior to western contact until the present.

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International Transgender Day of Visibility

International Transgender Day of Visibility is an annual event occurring on March 31 dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide.

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Intersectionality

Intersectionality is an analytic framework which attempts to identify how interlocking systems of power impact those who are most marginalized in society.

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Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is one of two components of the Legislature of Ontario (also known as the Parliament of Ontario), the other being the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, commonly called The Center, is a nonprofit organization serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population of New York City and nearby communities.

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List of transgender-rights organizations

Transgender organizations seek to promote understanding and acceptance, both legally and socially, of transgender persons.

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List of unlawfully killed transgender people

This is a list of transgender people who were murdered.

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Mirha-Soleil Ross

Mirha-Soleil Ross is a transsexual videographer, performance artist, sex worker and activist.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada are the sub-national governments within the geographical areas of Canada under the authority of the Canadian Constitution.

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Reina Gossett

Reina Gossett is an activist, filmmaker and writer based in New York City, currently the 2016–2018 Activist-in-Residence at Barnard Center for Research on Women.

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Rita Hester

Rita Hester (30 November 1963 - 28 November 1998) was a transgender African American woman who was murdered in Allston, Massachusetts on November 28, 1998.

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Sex worker

A sex worker is a person who is employed in the sex industry.

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Sylvia Rivera

Sylvia Ray Rivera (July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002) was an American gay liberation September 21, 1995.

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Trans bashing

Trans bashing is the act of victimizing a person emotionally, physically, sexually, or verbally because they are transgender or transsexual.

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Trans woman

A trans woman (sometimes trans-woman or transwoman) is a woman who was assigned male at birth.

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Transfeminine

Transfeminine is an umbrella term describing individuals who were assigned male at birth but align more closely with the female side of the gender spectrum.

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Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

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Transgender Awareness Week

Transgender Awareness Week, typically observed the second week of November, is a one-week celebration leading up to Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), which memorializes victims of transphobic violence.

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Transgender rights movement

The transgender rights movement is a movement to promote transgender rights and to eliminate discrimination and violence against transgender people regarding housing, employment, public accommodations, education, and health care.

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Transphobia

Transphobia is a range of negative attitudes, feelings or actions toward transgender or transsexual people, or toward transsexuality.

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Tyra Hunter

Tyra Hunter (1970 – August 7, 1995) was an African-American transgender woman who died after being injured as a passenger in a car accident and being refused emergency medical care.

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Viviane Namaste

Viviane Namaste, sometimes published under the name Ki Namaste, is a Canadian feminist scholar, author, researcher and professor, whose work focuses on health and transsexualism, more specifically HIV/AIDS and being seropositive.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Day_of_Remembrance

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