Trans Awareness Week 🏳️⚧️✨
🏳️⚧️ TRANS AWARENESS WEEK | NOVEMBER 13–19 🏳️⚧️
A week of visibility. A day of remembrance. A lifetime of fighting for dignity.
Today marks the beginning of Transgender Awareness Week, a time to celebrate transgender people, amplify their voices, share their stories, and educate others about the challenges they face.
But this week carries a particularly heartbreaking significance.
🕯️ On November 20, Trans Awareness Week gives way to Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR).
TDOR is a day dedicated to remembering transgender people whose lives have been stolen by anti-transgender violence.
It began in 1999, following the murder of Rita Hester, a Black transgender woman killed in Massachusetts in 1998.
And more than two decades later, we are still reading names. Still lighting candles. Still mourning people who deserved the chance to grow old.
💔 Think about that. We dedicate a week to raising awareness about a community, and then a day to remembering those who were killed simply for being part of it.
That should make every single one of us stop and think.
Transgender people are not political talking points. They are not threats, punchlines, or subjects for endless public debate.
They are mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, siblings, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. They are human beings with hopes, dreams, families, and futures.
And they deserve more than our sympathy after they're gone.
They deserve safety while they're alive.
They deserve respect without having to earn it.
They deserve to experience love, happiness, and ordinary everyday life without fear.
🏳️⚧️ This Trans Awareness Week, let's do more than raise awareness. Let's listen, learn, challenge misinformation, speak up against hatred, and celebrate transgender lives while they are here to be celebrated.
And on November 20, when we remember those we've lost, let's make a promise to those still with us:
We will not wait until you're gone to remind the world that your life matters.
To our transgender family: You are seen. You are valued. You are loved. And you belong. 🩷🤍🩵
Visibility matters. Remembrance matters. But protecting living trans people matters every single day.
🏳️🌈 With love,
Looking Through The Eyes of a Lesbian