Transgender Remembrance Day Coming Up
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OpposingViews.com - By Dignity USA
Do you know that more than 434 transgender people have been killed around the world so far this year, and those are just the ones we know about? That's according to the website www.Transgenderdor.org which keeps track of such statistics. All those people will be memorialized at the Transgender Day of Remembrance as celebrated in local communities on or about November 20, 2009.
The November date was chosen to memorialize Rita Hester, whose November 28, 1998, murder in Boston sparked the Remembering Our Dead web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil, which gave rise to the transgender day of remembrance...
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