From the UW-Madison Amnesty International Facebook post: Transgender Day
"Transgender Day of Remembrance is today. Trans people experience hate crimes at alarming rates. According to GLAAD’s fact sheets citing the 2011 Hate Violence Report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects, of the increasing number of anti-LGBT hate crime murders from 2010 to 2011, 40 percent were transgender women. Transgender people of color were also 28 percent more likely to experience physical violence than people who were not transgender people of color. Today, we remember those who have lost their lives simply because they chose to express themselves for who they truly are by not conforming to strict binaries of gender expression.
- See more at: http://www.progressive.org/…/transgender-day-remembrance-co…
