Transgender Day of Remembrance 2015: Those We've Lost
http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/11/20/transgender-day-remembrance-2015-those-weve-lost
The Advocate.com
By Sunnivie Brydum
November 20 2015 6:30 AM EST
Today marks the 16th annual Transgender Day of Rememberance, after the first event was organized by Gwendolyn Ann Smith in Allston, Mass., to memorialize Rita Hester — a trans woman of color killed in 1998.
Every year since, growing numbers of trans people and advocates worldwide take a moment to pause and remember the countless lives lost around the globe to transphobic violence. The somber occasion serves as a memorial event in which trans people and allies can mourn their dead, celebrate the lives they lived and as a popular hashtag in the wake of unabated anti-trans violence proclaims, #SayHerName.
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World mourns 271 dead on Trans Day of Remembrance[/b]
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/11/20/world-mourns-271-dead-on-trans-day-of-remembrance/
Pink News/By Joseph Patrick McCormick 11/20/2015
"Transgender Europe's Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) project revealed today that 271 transgender people have been reported murdered in the past year."