Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) feels different this year of necessity. After all, how could it not, when a pandemic is ravaging the globe and so many — including all of us here in the UK- will be locked down on 20th November? So this year there are no outdoor…

At the end of January 2023, I flew out to Barcelona for a work trip. During our stay, my colleagues and I were based in a hotel not far from the famous Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia cathedral in central Barcelona. I mostly work from our spare room at home. On 5th…

The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is here again, and with it, a whole collection of names and faces who have been lost to us in the past year. The grief is never-ending; and with it the tears, resolve and anger not only about what happened to them, but about…

At the end of October 2017 a group of us started preparing for the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) 2017 vigil in my home town of Bournemouth, and I volunteered to collate data on those we had lost. Aside from the vigil itself, the end results were two blog posts…

This is a short speech I gave at the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) vigil held in Bournemouth, UK on Tuesday 20th November 2018. I thought I would reproduce here in case anyone else finds it useful in future. This is a traumatic time of year for trans people, so…

Every year on or around 20th November people worldwide gather for the Transgender day of Remembrance to to remember the trans people we have lost to murder and violence in the past year, as reported by the Trans Murder Monitoring Project and published by Transgender Europe (TGEU). The following are…

Introducing tdor.translivesmatter.info — a new website to provide supporting information and resources for TDoR events. — [TRIGGER WARNING: transphobia, violence, suicide and murder] In October 2017 three LGBT+ groups on Bournemouth got together to plan the local Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil the following month. As most of us will know, a TDoR vigil is usually a simple event where we read the names of our…

Every year on or around 20th November people worldwide gather for the Transgender day of Remembrance to to remember the trans people we have lost to murder and violence in the past year, as reported by the Trans Murder Monitoring Project and published by Transgender Europe (TGEU). The following are…

Every year on or around 20th November people worldwide gather for the Transgender day of Remembrance to to remember the trans people we have lost to murder and violence in the past year, as reported by the Trans Murder Monitoring Project and published by Transgender Europe (TGEU). The following are…