Orion Rummler

LGBTQ+ Reporter

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Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) honors trans people lost to homicide and violence at memorials around the world. This year, LGBTQ+ advocates are using the somber day to call on politicians to stop demonizing trans and gender non-conforming people — and to take responsibility for their anti-trans rhetoric.

In the past year, Advocates for Trans Equality counted 27 violent deaths of trans people in the United States, as well as 21 suicides. Those deaths include the kidnapping, torture and killing of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old Black trans man who endured horrific conditions

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