End the Attack on Trans People! Defend Trans Youth! Trans Rights are Human Rights!
Trans Day of Remembrance
Held each November after Transgender Awareness Week, TDOR was founded by advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith in 1999 to honor the life of martyred trans woman Rita Hester. In the years since, it has become a way to honor all members of the trans community who have been subject to hateful crime.
The sheer scale of transphobic violence makes it difficult to honor people the way we should. Transgender Day of Remembrance provides a time and space for the community to pause, heal, and care for one another; in the face of rising transphobia and a dangerous political climate, this care is more necessary than ever.
What does this mean?
While transphobic violence increases daily, these acts of interpersonal violence
are tolerated in our society that normalizes state violence and anti-people policies.
Trans people are denied documentation, job opportunities, healthcare, housing, and services under Trump and the reactionary ruling class.
Trans people are facing restrictions on rights fought for by progressive LGBTQ+ movements for decades and are now among the most impacted with the impending elimination of SNAP and Medicare benefits. Trans youth are denied gender affirming care, while in many parts of the country are also facing elimination of education and safe spaces for critical thinking, creativity, and community.
As the International Women’s Alliance, we link arms with all oppressed genders and our trans siblings facing the brunt of these attacks but who are resisting, organizing, and strengthening solidarity from here to our homelands! We draw inspiration from Trans migrants hunger striking in ICE detention facilities, Black trans women marching in the streets against police brutality, and trans leaders forming new grassroots organizations to advance our peoples’ movements for justice, peace, and liberation!
What You Can Do
Take action with Starbucks Workers! No Contract, No Coffee.
The Trans Rights Action Committee (TRAC) and Women’s Committees of Starbucks, call on the wider community to support their demands to re-instate coverage of gender affirming care within workers contracts.
The Core Demands:
- Better Hours to improve staffing and safety in our stores!
- Higher Take-Home Pay for workers to cover living expenses, not payouts to executives!
- An End to Unfair labor practices including reinstatement from retaliation, harassment, and union busting!
These Core Demands will provide more stability and safety for mothers and queer workers.
Join Local Actions & Organizing
1) Join or support grassroots LGBTQ and women’s organizations, campus resource centers, and LGBTQ school clubs that are facing cuts and phase-outs due to federal executive orders restricting organizing around “gender”, “feminism”, and “DEI”.
2) Join the Defend Migrants Alliance - tinyurl.com/jointhedma
Trans migrants are experiencing medical neglect and violence in ICE & GEO detention facilities - being misgendered, harassed by guards, and are denied life-saving gender-affirming medications. Join the fight to defend our communities and to free all migrants from unjust detention alongside the struggle for dignity, rights, and justice.
3) Act in solidarity by attending or organizing TDOR vigils on November 20th
4-6pm, Minneapolis Central Library Doty Board room (N-280)
300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401
5-7pm, Queermunity, 3036 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408
Join the Trans Resistance Project, a coalition that provides gender-affirming care and education to working class trans Texans! Connect with Half The Sky Texas to learn more.