November 20, 2019, West Hollywood: The event was well attended. Women and men of every pronoun were there. They were there to remember those that far too many others would rather have forgotten, as though their existences had never been worthy of a mention in the records of humanity. They were there to remember the murdered and the fatally maligned who had walked among us all at some time.
Since 2008 there have 3313 trans person reported homicides worldwide. There were 250 murders in North America since said time with the largest carnage taking place in Central and South America with 2608 violent deaths perpetrated against trans people.
These numbers may be somewhat inaccurate due to the practice of “misgendering” where the deceased's birth gender is listed on the death certificate as opposed to the victim's trans status. This essentially “camouflages “ their daily life practices making it difficult to compile actual murder statistics and motives.Trans suicides were also mentioned.
Story and photos (three sets): March to Remember by Robert Stuart Lowden
March to Remember