Transgender Day of Remembrance: The Lives We Lost, The Reality We Face, and Honoring Lia Smith

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This episode honors Transgender Day of Remembrance by discussing the lives lost to violence and the ongoing challenges faced by the transgender community.

Each week we give you breakdowns, debates, analysis, Easter eggs, and video essays about your favorite games, TV shows, music, movies and more. Especially if your favorites include superhero movies and Star Wars. You can add your opinion and join us LIVE each week over on our Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/humanoidhq or our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@errorcodeshow --------------------------------------------------------------- Today’s video is dedicated to Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) — a solemn day honoring transgender and gender-nonconforming people whose lives were taken by violence. TDoR began in 1999, when activist Gwen-do-lynn Ann Smith organized a candlelight vigil for Rita Hester, a Black trans woman murdered in November 1998. What started as a local gathering in the Bay Area has grown into a global tradition observed every year on November 20, the anniversary of Chanelle Pickett’s murder in 1995. We look at the reality behind the numbers, using HRC data since 2013: 70.4% of trans and gender-nonconforming victims were people of color 82.3% were transgender women 59.4% were Black transgender women 71.2% were killed with a firearm And in just…

People in this episode

Hosts: AlextheHumanoid, Jay Weiler

Topics covered

• Transgender Day of Remembrance
• violence against transgender people
• honoring lives lost
• discrimination
• gender identity

Keywords

• Transgender Day of Remembrance
• Lia Smith
• violence
• discrimination
• HRC data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HRC

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