Family Equality joins peer organizations, advocates, and community members around the world in honoring Transgender Day of Remembrace (TDoR), a day dedicated to remembering the lives that have been taken by anti-transgender violence over the years.
TDoR was started in 1999 as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. In that vigil, which was started by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a tradition of honoring and commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence began.
Today and every day, we work to lift up transgender voices and fight for full legal protections of our trans community members. Too often, violence against the trans community goes unreported, unnoticed, or misrepresented in the media—which is why we are using the spotlight of TDoR to say their names.
🕯️Breonna “Be’Be” Hill, a black trans woman who was killed on October 14, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri.
🕯️Itali Marlowe, a black trans woman who was killed on September 20, 2019 in Houston, Texas.
🕯️Ja’Leyah-Jamar, a black trans woman who was killed on September 13, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri.
🕯️Bee Love Slater, a black trans woman who was found deceased on September 1, 2019 in Clewiston, Florida.
🕯️Bailey Reeves, a black trans woman who was killed on September 2, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland.
🕯️Tracy Single, a black trans woman who was killed on July 30, 2019 in Houston, Texas.
🕯️Bubba Walker, a black trans woman who was killed in late July in Charlotte, North Carolina.
🕯️Pebbles La Dime Doe, a black trans woman who was killed on August 4, 2019 in Allendale, South Carolina.
🕯️Jordan Cofer, a trans man who was killed on August 4, 2019 in Dayton, Ohio.
🕯️Kiki Fantroy, a black trans woman who was killed on July 31, 2019 in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
🕯️Denali Berries Stuckey, a black trans woman who was killed on July 20, 2019 in North Charleston, SC.
🕯️Brooklyn Lindsey, a black trans woman who was killed on June 25, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri. She was 32 years old.
🕯️ Zoe Spears, a black trans woman who was killed on June 13, 2019 in Fairmount Heights, Maryland.
🕯️Layleen Cubilette Polanco Xtravaganza, a black trans woman who was found dead in her jail cell on June 7, 2019 in Rikers Island, New York.
🕯️Cecilia Cranko, a trans woman who was killed on June 6, 2019 in South Orange, New Jersey.
🕯️ Chanel Scurlock, a black trans woman who was killed on June 5, 2019 in Lumberton, North Carolina.
🕯️Chynal Lindsey, a black trans woman who was killed on June 1, 2019 in Dallas, Texas.
🕯️Johana Medina León (“Joa”), a trans woman of color who died after being releasted from ICE custody on June 1, 2019 in El Paso, Texas.
🕯️Paris Cameron, a black trans woman who was killed on May 25, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan.
🕯️Michelle “Tamika” Washington, a black trans woman who was killed on May 19, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
🕯️Muhlaysia Booker, a black trans woman who was killed on May 18, 2019 in Dallas, Texas.
🕯️Claire Legato, a black trans woman who died on May 14th, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio after being shot in April 2019.
🕯️Ashanti Carmon, a black trans woman who was killed on March 30, 2019 in Fairmount Heights, Maryland.
🕯️Jazzaline Ware, a black trans woman who was killed on March 25, 2019 in Memphis, Tennessee.
🕯️Ellie Marie Washtock, a nonbinary person who was killed on January 31, 2019 in Saint Augustine, Florida.
🕯️Dana Martin, a black trans woman who was killed on January 6, 2019 in Montgomery, Alabama.
🕯️Keanna Mattel “Kelly Stough”, a black trans woman who was killed on December 7, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan.
🕯️Tydi Dansbury, a black trans woman who was killed on November 28, 2018 in Balitmore, Maryland.
🕯️Regina Denise Brown, a trans woman of color who was killed on October 10, 2018 in Orangebourg, South Carolina.
🕯️Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier, a black trans woman who was killed on October 3, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.
Note: The above are the recorded names of trans people in the United States who have lost their lives to anti-transgender violence between October 2018 and November 2019, based on the TDoR list from Transrespect Versus Transphobia Worldwide and GLAAD. But we recognize all those whose deaths have gone unreported or misrepresented, as well as the overwhelming number to transgender people who have lost their lives around the world, including the 130 reported murders in Brazil, the 63 in Mexico, and the 9 in Europe.