Mon. Dec 23rd, 2024

Don’t Just Tweet #TDOR, Show Up For Trans People!<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-demands-sit-down-with-engineers-amid-new-twitter-chaos">Elon Musk</a> unlocked Twitter’s transphobe dungeon Friday, marking a wild and disappointing end to Trans Awareness Week 2022, capped with the unlocking of former President Trump’s Twitter account Saturday.</p> <p>Typically this is a time of celebration, leading up to today, Sunday’s annual International <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trans-americans-face-epidemic-of-violence-human-rights-campaign-says">Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR),</a> a day and night to mourn those killed just for being who they are:<a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2022"> at least 32 souls this year, according to the toll maintained by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). </a></p> <p>Once again, a majority of the victims were Black trans women. And, as <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trans-americans-face-epidemic-of-violence-human-rights-campaign-says"><em>The Daily Beast’s</em> Sydney Bauer reported</a> earlier this week, HRC tabulated that more than 300 trans and gender non-confirming individuals have been murdered over the last decade.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dont-just-tweet-about-transgender-day-of-remembrance-show-up-for-trans-people?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty

Elon Musk unlocked Twitter’s transphobe dungeon Friday, marking a wild and disappointing end to Trans Awareness Week 2022, capped with the unlocking of former President Trump’s Twitter account Saturday.

Typically this is a time of celebration, leading up to today, Sunday’s annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), a day and night to mourn those killed just for being who they are: at least 32 souls this year, according to the toll maintained by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).

Once again, a majority of the victims were Black trans women. And, as The Daily Beast’s Sydney Bauer reported earlier this week, HRC tabulated that more than 300 trans and gender non-confirming individuals have been murdered over the last decade.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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