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"[Trans Day of Remembrance got its start] in the wake of the November 28, 1998 murder of Rita Hester in Boston, who was grossly disrespected by the gay and straight media in that city, and in the wake of her being the fourth trans person in five years murdered in the city.

"The person who killed Rita Hester still hasn't been brought to justice to this day.

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"Trans people are undeniably a part of the diverse mosaic of human life. You can find us on six inhabited continents on Planet Earth and we aren't going away or back into the closet.

"It's past time that people accept the fact we exist, and leave us alone so that we can survive, thrive, and be the best people that we can be.

"We would love for these TDOR events to become obsolete so we don't have to gather every November 20 to observe them. But as long as transphobic hate exists and is being stirred up by right wing politicians, conservative organizations, TERF's and fundamentalist religions, it looks like for the next few years we'll be gathering at venues around to world to remember the people we have lost."

-- Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot (b. 1962-05-04, d. 2020-12-05), 2019-11-20

[In the past year, depending on whose data set you use, 47 or 54 transgender people that we know of have been killed in the United States, and at least 359 worldwide, because of being trans. But note that not all trans people are correctly identified, or even officially reported as trans, when they are found murdered, so there are probably several we don't know about.]