Tag: Transgender Day of Remembrance
HRC Launches Parents for Transgender Equality Council
Yesterday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organisation, will launch its groundbreaking, new Parents for Transgender Equality Council, a coalition of the nation’s leading parent-advocates working for equality and fairness for transgender people. The council’s launch begins HRC’s commemoration of Transgender Week of Awareness, dedicated to the progress, continued challenges, and unfinished work in the fight for transgender equality.
Transgender Day of Remembrance Highlights Epidemic of Anti-Transgender Violence
Human Rights Campaign joins the nation in solemn tribute to transgender people who have lost their lives to violence.
TLDEF Observes Transgender Day of Remembrance
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) commemorates the 17th Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), a day to memorialise all those lost to anti-transgender violence and to honour the spirit and resilience of transgender people worldwide.
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) Observes Transgender Day of Remembrance
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance today by urging the public to reflect on all of the transgender people whose lives were ended by violence, simply for living as their authentic selves. The people we have lost include two young, African American transgender women, Islan Nettles, who was beaten to death in Harlem in August of 2013, and Lateisha (Teish) Green, who was shot in Syracuse in 2008.
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) Observes Transgender Day of Remembrance
On this 15th Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) is urging New Yorkers to reflect on the transgender people whose lives have been cut short by brutal violence.
New study finds poor representation of transgender people on TV
In recognition of Transgender Awareness Week and the Transgender Day of Remembrance, GLAAD has reviewed its archives of transgender images on television episodes over the past ten years, and found that a great deal of progress still needs to be made for fair and accurate depictions of the transgender community.