Thursday, 20 November 2014

Transgender Day of Remembrance

It's November 20th which means today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance!
It was founded in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith to memoralize transgender persons who have been killed as a result of transphobia or who are still suffering from it (violence, bullying, etc.).

I think it's a really important day for both the transgender community as well as the "other part" of society. I, for myself, haven't suffered (until now) from being trans*, but I know some people (some are friends of mine) who have. They get verbally abused by teachers, other students or just random people on the street.
That just not right!

I also read an article about a non-binary transgender person, who wants to be referred to as Profx (for example in letters) instead of the female or male version (in Germany). They got some much hate from most parts of society, mostly from rightist extremists, but also from academic people.
[If there are some interested people that speak German: here's the link!]

I can't understand why it is so unacceptable to be trans*.

Also I read about the occurrences in Italy lately. Some communities accepted same gender marriages (where the persons married in a different country - obviously), but now the government wants prohibit that again.
I was just like WHAT?!

Some people are so dumb. -.-'

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