Reflections on Transgender Day of Remembrance

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• transgender
• gender variant
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• genderqueer
• queer
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[BonesDGAF021]

this is a good explanation for people who don't understand what it is to be transgender & to die for a gender representation regardless of what we call it, we are equalizing everyone in our similar sufferings. we are showing compassion by fighting the hate that leads to violence displayed against gender variant people...

[beckmaaaaaan]

@CharlesOfBerlinX thank you - i know some german! so i might be able to get some of it! But also just for showing to my german friends :)

[CharlesOfBerlinX]

@beckmaaaaaan

this is the link to the guy's channel's name is TransKrauts. They are just starting this week. and all of it is in german ...

xo Charlotte

[beckmaaaaaan]

@CharlesOfBerlinX Hey Charlotte, would you post the link to the channel you're talking about?

xo

[NowLouie]

Re the colonization bit: It kind of reminds me of the book _The Well of Loneliness_ which is sometimes called the first lesbian novel --- despite the fact that the author describes themself as an "invert," a term which predates and encompasses trans* and lesbianism as firmly establish identities. My reading of it was very much the story of a trans man, but neither trans nor lesbian was the way Radclyff Hall identified.

Good points overall re complexities. :)

[CharlesOfBerlinX]

Hey darling! Thank you for the video. It is really interesting to hear how this whole "group thing" works in America. I have the feeling that the transgendered people in Germany deal with less problems in case of violence and hatred(at least the ftms) but also prefere to be stealth and silenced. There is a new German ftm channel on youtube and it was really difficult to find guys, that accepted to be "out" then.

By the way: The new hair looks great. (beware of "tranny chasers" ;)!

xx Charlotte

[0HeyJude0]

Love this video, Reese. I felt uncomfortable by some of the names being read off too. It seemed like some of them were gender non-comforming people, but that doesn't mean they necessarily identified as trans. Not to mention the fact that gender is culturally bound, so it felt like we were forcing our concepts of gender upon them.

You bring up tons of good points!!

[Forlorn79]

During the events that I went to, the reading of the names may not have been more than the facts, but the speaches and conversations that surrounded the events did talk about some of the concerns you mentioned. I don't think there can be an ideal way to have an event like this, but on the whole, I think it is a positive thing. It can get people talking about the situations and people who died. If it was just reduced to the reading of names, then the event would just be statistical.