Do you know a trans person murdered because of their gender identity?
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
November 20, 2010 4:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/do_you_know_a_trans_person_murdered_because_of_the.phpI have been struggling to find words appropriate to this Transgender Day of Remembrance.
I can find no fitting words of my own. I am too far from the days when I wanted to die, when people stopped to point and laugh at me on the street, when the need for human companionship led me down dangerous streets, when I felt the imminence of violence in the air. Being trans often means confronting others with their own difference, their own failure to conform, and their own self-loathing. The words of Sandy Stone come to mind, from her essay "My Words To Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix," where she discussed the fear and loathing that many gays and lesbians have for transsexuals:
