The MoCo Pride Center, Live In Your Truth, and Trans Maryland will host a Trans Day of Remembrance and Resilience ceremony at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Bethesda Chevy Chase Regional Services Center.
The event will honor transgender individuals who lost their lives to violence this year and emphasize the importance of supporting and protecting the transgender community.
Per Montgomery County: “Join the MoCo Pride Center, Live In Your Truth, and Trans Maryland for a powerful Trans Day of Remembrance and Resilience ceremony. The event allows allies to honor the memories of transgender people in our community whose lives were lost in acts of violence this year and reinforces the importance of protecting the transgender community. Join the remembrance and resilience program starting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Bethesda Chevy Chase Regional Services Center located at 4805 Edgemoor Lane.”
Per GLAAD: “The first Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence since Rita Hester’s death, and began an important tradition that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. In a 2012 article with Huffpost, Smith is quoted as saying, “the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people — sometimes in the most brutal ways possible — it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice.”
