[trigger warning]
Today is the 12th International Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Since the 11th day, the deaths of almost 180 trans people have been recorded, and many more will have gone largely unnoticed and unrecorded except by their friends and families.
Bigotry kills. It kills by encouraging murderers. It kills by letting people die when they could have been saved. It kills by treating their lives as worthless, as subhuman. And those it doesn't kill, transphobia harms in thousands of other ways.
And next year there will be hundreds more to be added to the list of those who were killed because of who they were.
Remember the dead.
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