ALT Art of a butterfly with two feathers on each side. In the background is a wavy gradient mimicking the transgender pride flag. "Trans Day of Remembrance" is written across the top above the SBWU logo, and 2024 is written at the bottom.

ALT “2024 has not been an easy year to be a trans person. Anti-trans legislation is at an all time high, with 665 anti-trans bills being introduced throughout the United States this year alone. 45 of these have passed. Hate crimes and transphobic rhetoric have skyrocketed. We are routinely being used as punching bags on all sides of the political spectrum. It has been a very difficult year. Today - November 20th - is Trans Day of Remembrance. Specifically, this is the 25th Trans Day of Remembrance. TDOR was started in 1999 by Gwendolyn Smith, in response to the still unsolved 1998 murder of a trans woman named Rita Hester. In the years since, it has become the day we mourn all we have lost over the last year. Every year the violence against trans people - especially Black trans women - gets worse. This last year, 30 trans people in the US have been murdered according to GLAAD… the youngest of these being only 14 years old. Many suspect the number of those affected by transphobic crimes ar