Today Is The Annual Transgender Day Of Remembrance
by: Autumn Sandeen
Thu Nov 20, 2008 at 11:17:45 AM EST
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I woke up tired this morning, after a really restless night of sleep. I dreamed I was in a hostage situation, and because I had to go to the restroom, the hostage takers were going to likely discover I was trans -- it was pretty clear to me in the dream that if those folks found out I was trans that I would be considered an spiritual abomination, and would be killed.
But it was only a dream.
For the 30 individuals on the Transgender Day Of Remembrance list, being found brutally killed because those who killed them did it because of anti-transgender hatred or prejudice.
One of the last names added to the list this year was Lateisha Green. She was previously referred to by mainstream media by the name Moses "Teish" Cannon -- the headline read Syracuse man was killed for being gay, police say. But as Rod McCullom of Rod 2.0 filled us in, the Syracuse murder victim has now been identified as transgender.