Transgender Europe: Support Transgenre Strasbourg calls for a gathering to celebrate the 16th International Transgender Day of Remembrance

Support Transgenre Strasbourg calls for a gathering to celebrate the 16th International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), at 3pm on Saturday 15th November 2014 in place Kléber in Strasbourg, France

Once more this year, hundreds of transgender people murders, direct or indirect by social exclusion and suicide, have been reported across the world, also here in France. All of which is just a tiny part of the whole transphobic crime picture.

This day reminds us:

  • that every day, all over the world, millions of transgender people are excluded, persecuted, hated, mistreated, aggressed and regularly assassinated or pushed to suicide just because of their so-called “difference” from the so-called sex/gender “norm”;
  • that rather than decreasing, the number of transphobic crimes, visible and invisible, is increasing;
  • that the hatred leading to transphobic crimes is not the fruit of chance or a few “nasty individuals”, but results from one of the pillars supporting a political system that leads to a culture and social structure producing 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 social classes, via the sacrifice of the oppressed and exploited, who include transgender people;
  • 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 potential victims to come: all transgender people worldwide, or people labelled so.

Full press release.