The trans neighborhood and those who have been killed because they are trans are honored, and Monday marked the start of a significant time.
We are reminded of the significance of transgender awareness during Transgender Awareness Week. According to GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, this week is” a week when trans individuals and their allies take actions to draw attention to the transgender community by educating the public about their identities, sharing their stories and experiences, and advancing campaigning around issues of discrimination, prejudice, or murder that affect their society.”
The year comes before Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, which honors the life lost to anti-trans murder in 2023, which will be another deadly year for the neighborhood. According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than three-quarters of the transgender individuals killed so far this year were people of color. More than two-thirds of the fatalities involved guns. And more than half of them were transgender women of color.
This crime comes after the tragic 2022 Trans Day of Remembrance shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which resulted in five fatalities and 34 injuries. A 40 % rise in anti-transgender hate crime incidents in 2022 was attributed to the frenzy, which claimed the lives of two transgender people.
Problems on healthcare, abuse
As of 2023, far-right extremists have targeted hundreds of schools, libraries, businesses, hospitals, and LGBTQ+ events for abuse, with many of them reiterating anti-trans propaganda, using slogans and threats.
Right-wing politicians have contributed to achieving the objectives of anti-LGBT+ organizations by enacting legislation that restricts LGBTQ+ rights and endangersLGBT+ lives through restrictions on gender-affirming attention. Trans people of color, as well as unhoused and underprivileged transgender people, are more likely to gain access to life-saving health care as a result of these new restrictions, which exacerbate existing structural imbalances. In 2023, more than 500 anti-LGBT+ laws were passed, including those prohibiting books, dragging, and another armed laws.
We had commit to defending against attacks on the transgender community as we recognize it this month. It entails speaking out against violence and hatred, dispelling anti-trans tales, and taking a position against legislation that encourages it. It is the most effective way to protect the lives of those in the area and to recognize the trans life we have lost.
Top research scientist for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project is R. G. Cravens.
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