Blue design with the words TRANS LIVES MATTER on a trans pride flag with illustrations of disabled BIPOC trans community members gathering at a candlelight vigil. Below that, the @MaskBlocMSP logo and QR and text reading: “TDOR: Transgender Day of Remembrance”
Text at the bottom over a pink and blue gradient reads,” Today, November 20, is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual observance honoring the memory of transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. To see all the trans people being memorialized for TDOR 2024, you can check tdor.translivesmatter.info/ “
![Quote design with transgender pride colors surrounding text: “[TDOR] seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people — sometimes in the most brutal ways possible — it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice.”
– Transgender Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith.
Additional text reads, “TDOR was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, who was killed in 1998. Now, the day commemorates all the transgender people we have lost to violence in the past year.
At The bottom there is a title that says “TDOR: Transgender Day of Remembrance” next to the @MaskBlocMSP logo with QR code](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fzoy4rz7hyj4fsafynaxwor6/bafkreif7ifsganbz3ipmmqsjhns55ksnhv7twcefqqvhfsjytn7lnl4oxa)
Quote design with transgender pride colors surrounding text: “[TDOR] seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people — sometimes in the most brutal ways possible — it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice.”
– Transgender Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith.
Additional text reads, “TDOR was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, who was killed in 1998. Now, the day commemorates all the transgender people we have lost to violence in the past year.
At The bottom there is a title that says “TDOR: Transgender Day of Remembrance” next to the @MaskBlocMSP logo with QR code
A muted pink triangle with the words, “Minnesota is a trans refuge, but anti-transgender violence still strikes close to home.”
Next, An abstract shape with text and pink and blue flower decorations. In the shape, text reads, “On November 10th, two trans women were assaulted in downtown Minneapolis near the light rail.” There is a Google Maps satellite image labeled 5th St & Hennepin Ave.
On the bottom, a logo and QR code to @MaskBlocMSP and text that reads, Source: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/two-trans-women-beaten-in-train-station-while-bystanders- cheered/”
![On the left, a photo of Rep. Leigh Finke, MN-DFL, a trans woman with curly light pink hair, bright pink lipstick, and an orange blazer. Text reads, “As Rep. Finke (D-MN), the author of MN's Trans Refuge bill, said at a rally in support of the victims, "Policy cannot change behavior. [...] We really cannot use the law to change the hearts of people who hate us."
The same way come together as a community to protect each other after anti-trans hate and violence, we must continue to work together to ensure disabled, ill, and viral-avoidant trans and queer people are welcome in our spaces. Even at an open-air rally, if comrades and allies are not wearing respirators, we cannot be safe there.
Keeping us safe requires us to prepare for what is to come and take steps to ensure our collective survival. We need to protect one another, including by wearing a high-quality respirator mask. ”
Below that, it lists the quote source as https://www.instagram.com/reel/DChRKyOxOL1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fzoy4rz7hyj4fsafynaxwor6/bafkreib7xhbp7bjenbbgjm7qlzzdbt5gkm4yr34zlmdmkabfudy2i3zfuq)
On the left, a photo of Rep. Leigh Finke, MN-DFL, a trans woman with curly light pink hair, bright pink lipstick, and an orange blazer. Text reads, “As Rep. Finke (D-MN), the author of MN's Trans Refuge bill, said at a rally in support of the victims, "Policy cannot change behavior. [...] We really cannot use the law to change the hearts of people who hate us."
The same way come together as a community to protect each other after anti-trans hate and violence, we must continue to work together to ensure disabled, ill, and viral-avoidant trans and queer people are welcome in our spaces. Even at an open-air rally, if comrades and allies are not wearing respirators, we cannot be safe there.
Keeping us safe requires us to prepare for what is to come and take steps to ensure our collective survival. We need to protect one another, including by wearing a high-quality respirator mask. ”
Below that, it lists the quote source as https://www.instagram.com/reel/DChRKyOxOL1
November 20th is the #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance. While we honor those who have died from anti-trans violence in the last year, we must acknowledge what has allowed that violence to occur. A rising tide of anti-trans and anti-queer hate is on our horizon, and we must lock in together to face it.
