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Light a candle: Transgender Day of Remembrance

By on November 20, 2011

A wide web badge - a single candle burns below the title "13th International Transgender Day of Remembrance", a famous quote from Santayana is beside it
“Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it ”
- George Santayana

13th International Transgender Day of Remembrance

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2 responses to “Light a candle: Transgender Day of Remembrance”

  1. Helen
    Helen November 21, 2011 at 7:50 pm |

    I was shocked by the figure going around various blogs and Tumblrs that the international average life expectancy if you’re trans is 23. 23! Helen of Questioning Transphobia has delved into this a little bit and it may not be quite as bad as that, thank goodness, but it’s unarguable that discrimination and transphobia is lethal to many people. Lest we forget.

  2. Mindy
    Mindy November 21, 2011 at 8:02 pm |

    The fact that life expectancy is anything less than the average (White, western) age is extremely tellling. Thinking of those gone before their time today.

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