Remembering

Transgender Flag

in honour of

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Transgender Victory

Score a victory for the transgendered. “Beginning June 10, when a passport applicant presents a certification from an attending medical physician that the applicant has undegone appropriate clinical tretment for gender transition, the passport will reflect the new gender. The guidelines include detailed information about what the information the certification must include. It is also possible to obtain a limited-validity passport if the physician’s statement show the applicant is in the process of gender transition. No additional medical records are required. Sexual reassignment surgery is no longer a prerequisite for passport issuance. A Consular Report of Birth Abroad can also be amended with the new gender.”

Remembering Rita

Rita Hester walked, talked, breathed, laughed, and cried. In other words she was a person. Standing at 6’2 (or 6’3″ by some accounts) she was one tall drink of water. Rita was also transgendered. On November 28, 1998, she was brutally  stabbed causing her to go into cardiac arrest and later die. Rita was out as transgendered to all who knew her.  To this day no one is sure of the motive. As there was nothing stolen, it certainly wasn’t robbery. It was, likely, a hate crime. And Rita’s murderer still walks the streets.

 

While I didn’t know Rita personally, I will think about her today and hope that one day soon all hate will vanish from the earth.

May it be so.

Transgender Day of Remembrance

 

 

Please read about the people being memoralized on this Transgender Day of Remembrance.

 

Transgender Day of Remembrance

 

As we approach the Transgender Day of Remembrance, I wanted to put up the Transgender Pride Flag to be in solidarity to our brothers and sisters in the Trans Community. While I’m glad people remember and memorialize those who have been killed due to transphobia, I am appalled by those who perpetrate such heinous acts against the transgendered. As I’ve said before, I have no desire to transition, but I’m a strong supporter for those who do.

I’ll talk more about Transgender Day of  Remembrance  later this week, and I will remember Rita as later in the month.