You might have noticed that the members of Pride Alliance were tabling in the Campus Center today. If you’d stopped and looked at the papers they’d hung up, you would have found out that today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance is held every year on November 20th to memorialize the non-cisgendered people who were murdered for no good reason in the past year.

It’s a lengthy list. To read it in its entirety, click here: http://www.transgenderdor.org/?page_id=555

You’ll notice that most of the murders were violent, many extraordinarily so, with the victims being stabbed upwards of twenty times.

These murders happen all over the world, in Brazil, Mexico, Italy, and our own United States. And these are just the recorded ones. How many people lie dead in unmarked graves just because they dressed and acted differently than others thought they ought to?

So today, I ask you to take a moment and remember those who have died senselessly and needlessly as a result of the blind hatred of others.