The trans flag flying on UCL’s Portico building
The trans flag flying on UCL's Portico building On 20 November the Transgender flag will be flown on the Portico to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual day of observance honouring the memory of the trans people who have lost their lives to anti-trans violence. Content warning: The content and discussion in this piece will engage with themes and situations around transphobia, violence, racism and loss of life. Transgender Day of Remembrance began in the United States in November 1999, and was a small event organised by a group of transgender advocates: Gwendolyn Ann Smith, Nancy Nangeroni, and Jahaira DeAlto. It was a vigil to honour the lives of both Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett, two Black transgender women who were killed in November 1998. The vigils had two purposes. One, to keep the memory of both women alive. The second was to recognise and remind others not only of their deaths, but why they were killed.
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