Remembering 366+ trans and gender-diverse lives lost in 2025: Trans Day of Remembrancehttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/trans-day-of-remembrance/ 🔗Daniel Villarreal (20 nov 2025)
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is observed annually on November 20 to honor transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people who've been killed as a result of anti-transgender hatred and violence.
The Trans Day of Remembrance serves as a memorial for those lost; a call to raise awareness about the ongoing violence, discrimination, and stigma that trans and nonbinary people face worldwide; and a way to advocate for transgender rights, safety, and justice, so that all people may live safely and authentically, free from fear and prejudice.
The Trans Day of Remembrance this year commemorates the estimated 366+ trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people who lost their lives due to suicide and violence.
It's also especially essential to mark this year's Trans Day of Remembrance since transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people have come under unprecedented political attacks from the president and his political party, with orders denying any legal recognition of non-cisgender people, policies pushing them out of all public life, and disinformation fostering violence against them.
While the estimated number of lives lost since the last Trans Day of Remembrance is 366, the "+" added to the number acknowledges that the actual total may actually be much larger since some deaths go unreported and police, media, and victims' families will sometimes misgender victims, erasing their gender identities in the process.
