Transgender Education Advocates (TEA) of Utah will be commemorating the 16th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance with a silent vigil in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda on November 20, 2014. The vigil and bell ringing, marking each of the names of the transgender individuals who have lost their lives to violence, neglect and suicide, will begin at 12:00 noon.
We will be joined by Equality Utah, other equality organizations, as well as representatives from the Salt Lake City Council.
Since 2003...
Transgender Education Advocates (TEA) of Utah will be commemorating the 16th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance with a silent vigil in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda on November 20, 2014. The vigil and bell ringing, marking each of the names of the transgender individuals who have lost their lives to violence, neglect and suicide, will begin at 12:00 noon.
We will be joined by Equality Utah, other equality organizations, as well as representatives from the Salt Lake City Council.
Since 2003, TEA of Utah has been the flagship organization who sponsors Transgender Day of Remembrance in Salt Lake City. TDOR began in 1998 to mark the murder of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was brutally murdered in Massachusetts, and whose murder remains unsolved. Organizations across the world mark November 20th as a Day of Remembrance with programs, candlelight vigils, and events which draw the community together in mourning and solidarity. The numbers of those murdered, medically neglected or who die by suicide are in the hundreds every year, another statistic which cannot be accurately reported due to mis-gendering and countries who refuse to report their deaths. In the United States, the largest concentration of deaths appear to affect transwomen of color, most of whom are socio-ecnonomically disadvantaged.
TEA of Utah’s goal for 2015 is to ensure a TDOR event is held in Salt Lake, Provo, Ogden and St. George to reach as many people as possible.