The 11th International Transgender Day of Remembrance

The 11th International Transgender Day of Remembrance will be
celebrated on 20th November 2009
(see www.transgenderdor.org et
www.rememberingourdead.org ).


This day reminds us :

- that every day, all over the world, thousands of transgender persons
are excluded, persecuted, hated, mistreated, aggressed and regularly
assassinated or pushed to suicide uniquely because of their so-called
"difference" from the so-called sex/gender "norm" ;

- that rather than decreasing, the visible number of transphobic crimes
is increasing at a staggering rate: if in the past, the number of
victims counted was in dozens, they are now counted in hundreds ;

- that the hatred leading to transphobic crimes is not the fruit of
chance or of a few "nasty individuals", but results from one of the
pillars supporting a political system leading to a culture and social
structure that produce a hoard of discriminations which rot society to
the core: heteropatriarchy, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... ;

- that the cynicism, hatred, social segregation and violence inspired by
this political system guarantee the comfort of the dominating and
exploiting classes, via the sacrifice of the oppressed and exploited,
who include transgender persons ;

- that this deadly political system is unacceptable, and must be fought
without concession, in the name of its past and present victims, but
also in the name of its victims to come: all transgender persons
worldwide.