In 1999, transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith held a vigil to honour the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed the year previous. This vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence since Rita Hester’s death and began an important tradition that has become what we know today as the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR).
Every year, the Pride Centre gathers to honour the lives of transgender, two-spirit, and gender-diverse individuals who lost their lives in the past year to transphobic violence. This event provides students with the opportunity to understand further transgender-based violence and its continual …
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), which takes place yearly on November 20th. We honour and remember the transgender, two-spirit, and gender-diverse individuals who lost their lives this year to transphobic violence.Â
