Suicide: Christine Penner's and Others
12/03/2009 — Suzan
http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/12/03/suicide-christine-penners-and-others/ (http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/12/03/suicide-christine-penners-and-others/)
I've always had mixed feelings about the Day of Remembrance. On one hand it seems important to remember those who were victims of often horrendous violence and yet it often seems that in death these victims become tools to be used for political gain. Especially true when so many were sex workers living outside middle class support systems.
But then again over the years I have lost more friends to suicide than to violence. So many that I often wonder if we shouldn't have a Day of Rememberance for those who kill themselves
But there is something else. I've been out and known people associated with various trans-prefixed words for well over 40 years. Many of the sisters I knew in the 1960s and 70s are dead now, way too many committed suicide either quickly or slowly.