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Elegy for the Ones Who Never Got to Be: Trans Day of Remembrance 2022

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Elegy for the Ones Who Never Got to Be: Trans Day of Remembrance 2022

(blog article)  by  Alyssa Gonzalez -- November 15, 2022

https://the-orbit.net/alyssa/2022/11/15/elegy-for-the-ones-who-never-got-to-be-trans-day-of-remembrance-2022/


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The people I most want to remember today are not the ones taken before their time by actively murderous bigots. It’s the ones that passively murderous bigots work tirelessly to make sure never find ourselves.
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They [the bigots] don’t want us finding ourselves. They don’t want us being able to act on that knowledge if we find it anyway. They don’t want our legal identities to reflect our realities. At every step, they want us disappeared through the cracks of ignorance, denial, and depression.
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