Trans Day of Remembrance
T-Notes
by Robbi Cohn
November 12, 2011
http://goqnotes.com/13293/trans-day-of-remembrance/ (http://goqnotes.com/13293/trans-day-of-remembrance/)
Damn. I hate writing this particular column. Each year I hope this will be the year I can write that trans homicides have subsided, that trans violence has taken a downturn and that we no longer need to gauge progress through the measurement of death and beatings. Sadly, that is again not the case in 2011.
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Regardless of the venue — domestic or international — the results for this year show that not only are the figures not improving, but in some places it has become far more dangerous to be trans than ever before.