Well, here we are again. The sort of commemoration that the world shouldn't need.
Today we remember all the trans people whose gender dysphoria cost them their lives, through murder or suicide. Trans people are more likely to encounter a violent, premature death than any other group. The hate and violence are on the rise thanks to the general increase in xenophobia this last decade. That's the subject for a separate essay but today we focus on the victims, hundreds of them.
I wrote previously in this blog about Brianna Ghey, whose murder affected me a lot because of her youth, because she lived quite close to where I live when I'm in Britain, and because she died literally a stone's throw from where my dear friend Kate Collins lay dying (of natural causes, at least). I've just read in my paper in Italy of another teen, just 13, who committed suicide after endless bullying at school for being "effeminate".
What to do? For today, let's remember all these poor people. May they rest in peace.
Sue x
RIP indeed to those we've lost and deepest sympathies to those who remember their loved ones.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lynn. Sue x
DeleteToday, the BBC announced that a museum, the North Hertfordshire Museum, officially renamed the Roman Emperor Elagabalus as using the pronouns she/her/hers. She is one of the earliest people to be named as a transgender woman by a museum. You can read more by blogging www.emilysvirtualrocket.blogspot.com. Thank you very much. -- Emily Shorette
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information, Emily. I wrote about Elagabalus in this blog in 2021 (https://suerichmond.blogspot.com/2021/01/more-quality-trans-videos-blogs-and.html , section A Dip in the Archives). The decision by the museum seems to me to be a controversial one. Sue x
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