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Remembering the Self-Violence on the Transgender Day of Remembrance

Started by Butterfly, November 16, 2010, 05:21:51 PM

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November 16, 2010, 05:21:51 PM
Remembering the Self-Violence on the Transgender Day of Remembrance
The Huffington Post
By Pete Subkoviak
Policy coordinator, AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Posted: November 16, 2010 04:00 PM


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pete-subkoviak/remembering-the-selfviole_b_784447.html


November 20th is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, which pays homage to transgender individuals around the globe who are murdered for being who they were born to be. Fourteen were murdered this year in the United States and Puerto Rico alone, including Sandy Woulard, who was murdered right here in Chicago. While I believe violence is an unbelievably important issue in the transgender community, I think it is important to broaden this commemoration to include victims of self-violence, as transgendered individuals are much more likely to die by their own hands than by another's.
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