The United States ended the 2020 TDoR (Transgender Day of Remembrance) reporting period with 59 deaths, the most reported since record-keeping began in 1998.
Of those, 36 transgender people were violently murdered, 9 deaths cause unknown, 9 suicides, and 5 are attributed to medical malfeasance.
There have been 430 Murders to mourn during the 2020 TDoR International vigils on November 20, 2020.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance was conceived by Gwendolyn Ann Smith to memorialize the murder of transgender woman Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts on Nov. 28, 1998.
Rita Hester was brutally stabbed at least 20 times in the chest in her apartment by an unknown assailant. Her murder remains unsolved but not unheralded as reported by Edge Media.
Why this is so important.
When Rita Hester was murdered activists were quoted as saying that that they could not remember a single time that a murderer was successfully prosecuted despite damning evidence.
We do our very best to ensure every murder is reported and every criminal is brought to justice.
Ms. Hester’s murder inspired San Francisco activists to launch the first Transgender Day of Remembrance in 1999, and since then the number of cities holding Day of Remembrance events has increased annually.
The “Remembering our dead” project collates data collected by the Trans Murder Monitoring Project and collates it with what trans activists on the ground have learned.
The Trans Lives Matters project counts transgender suicides due to social stigmatism. There has been an increase in violence targeting black trans people from Hate Groups, people that Trump unfailing defended.
The “Remembering our dead” project also counts those who have died due to novel coronavirus complications.
This is entirely appropriate as the death toll from COVID-19 would have been cut by two thirds in the United States had the 45th president required masks at the onset of the pandemic.
This malfeasance by trump which disproportionately impacts minorities is paramount to murder.
The US TDoR list can be viewed on the Planet Transgender Website.
The International TDoR list can be viewed at Trans Lives Matter. info