![]() “I’ve not personally lost someone in such a violent way but I, and so many of my close friends, struggle with suicidal thoughts. I try to not think too much about the level of violence against trans people in both the UK and worldwide because it takes such an emotional toll when it’s hard enough just to live as an out trans person day to day. TDoR is set to take place on Saturday 20 November so the LGBT+ Network is raising awareness of the issues surrounding violence and intolerance towards transgender people in our local communities, across the country and internationally.Ī member of staff from UHMBT said: “It’s terrifying to think of how many of my trans siblings from across the world have been taken from us too soon. The LGBT+ Network at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) is marking international Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) by raising awareness of anti-transgender abuse. So, on Trans Day of Remembrance, whilst thinking of those trans and gender-diverse people who have died in the last 12 months, let us not forget the impact that their passing has had on us all.Content warning: Contains discussion of transphobia, murder and suicide. Discriminatory behaviour does not just impact negatively on the person on the receiving end, it has the capacity to tarnish society as a whole. For example, a higher proportion of trans respondents felt discriminated against at work in 2019 (36%) compared to 2012 (22%). ![]() In some areas of daily life, discrimination had reportedly got worse over the previous 7 years. According to a 2020 report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (‘FRA’), trans and intersex people reported experiencing hate-motivated violence and harassment more commonly than other LGBTI people. The report focused on results from a survey of LGBTI people across 30 European countries in 2019, including the UK, and included comparisons with a similar survey from 2012. In a 2017 survey, for example, 41% of trans people and 31% of non-binary people from across England, Scotland and Wales reported having experienced a hate crime or incident because of their gender identity in the last 12 months. Research has shown that many trans and gender-diverse people face discrimination, harassment and violence in their daily lives. When a life is taken, particularly when the person killed is from a marginalised community and the crime is motivated by hate, humanity is lessened. There is value in celebrating our shared humanity and the intrinsic worth of each person’s life. The nature of our existence in this world is relatively fragile. One person’s death is not just a personal loss on some level it affects us all. The message of Donne’s words is not so different. When those are unlawfully breached, we are all diminished. ![]() Considering what the world has been through over the past two years, including the Covid-19 pandemic and extreme weather events linked to climate change, the intertwined nature of our lives feels more prescient than ever.Īs lawyers working for a firm that specialises in protecting human rights, we understand that there are certain inherent rights and fundamental freedoms that everyone deserves, for example, the right to life. The underlying message of his words is, however, a salient reminder of the one thing that unites us all – our common humanity. Donne’s references to man and mankind may feel out of step with more inclusive contemporary terminology. The language used in the early 17th century does not always sit comfortably to readers in the 21st century. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee.” Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. ![]() If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. “No man is an island entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. In 1624, John Donne, a metaphysical poet, published the following thoughts: Whether they were known to us or not, however, we are all impacted by the untimely deaths of those people being remembered on Saturday. For others, they may be commemorating the lives of people who they never met but whose passing has affected them. Perhaps a partner, family member, friend, colleague or neighbour. It is a day when, across the world, people will be remembering and honouring the lives of the trans and gender-diverse people who were reported murdered in the previous 12 months.įor some, they will be mourning a loved one who has died. This Saturday, 20th November 2021, is Trans Day of Remembrance.
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