
Trans Awareness Week is a time for the LGBTQ+ community to honor, celebrate, and uplift our trans community. With anti-trans rhetoric and legislation at all-time highs, now more than ever, we need to listen to our trans community about our experiences.
While most of the discussion of trans folks online can often be centered on negativity, Trans Awareness Week gives us the opportunity to uplift positive stories of trans people across the country.
From barriers in receiving medical treatment to discriminatory housing and employment practices to a lack of adequate and appropriate representation of trans folks, our community is facing many confounding challenges.
To learn more about our trans community and to find ways you can support us, check out some of the resources below!
From learning about Trans identities to understanding the issues that our trans community faces, our resources will help you better understand the trans experience.
Learn More!As attacks on our trans and non-binary community continue to gain steam, it is important to get the facts about gender-affirming care.
Get the Facts!Create a safe space for trans people by showing off your support with our trans pride gear!
Shop Now!Learn more about our small grant recipients and ACTIVATE and ELEVATE fellows in their own words.
Read more!HRC’s Tori Cooper hosts conversations centered around the trans experience. From topics of love to representation, Trans Talk provides a space for trans folks to speak their truth.
Tune In!We sat down with Schuyler Bailar, the first openly transgender NCAA Division I athlete, to break down several myths about transgender athletes, specifically transgender female athletes, that have gained wide-spread traction amid the surge in transgender sports-bans in state legislatures.
Watch HereTrans Awareness Week is a time to honor those trans people we have lost and to advocate for a world in which trans people are no longer targets for hate. Trans Awareness Week leads into Trans Day of Remembrance which was initially founded by Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor Rita Hester, a trans woman that was murdered in 1998.
Human Rights Campaign Foundation Marks Ten Years of Tracking Violence Against Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People, Recording 32 Fatalities in 2022.
As HRC continues to work toward justice and equality for transgender and gender non-conforming people, we mourn those we have lost in 2022.
5 Things You Can Do To Support Trans and Non-Binary Folks During and Beyond Transgender Awareness Week
November 13 marks Transgender Awareness Week, a week-long celebration raising awareness about the transgender community and the challenges our community faces. In support of transgender and non-binary people, particularly our youth, here are five things you can do to support trans folks during and beyond.
1. Educate yourself on what transgender and being non-binary means!
As with anything in life, a good starting point to better and thoroughly understand the matter at hand is to educate yourself. Do you actually know what being transgender and non-binary means? It’s okay to not clearly know what defines being transgender and non-binary, but it’s never okay to assume or, even worse, make false claims. Check out this helpful resource!
2. Understand the challenges that trans and non-binary people face!
We estimate that more than 2 million people in the U.S. identify as trans or non-binary. Trans people are your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers. Trans people face unique challenges. From lack of legal protections to discrimination at the workplace, to truly support trans people, we all need to understand the scope of issues that trans people encounter in their day-to-day lives. Learn more here.
3. Speak up against discrimination, bullying and hate!
It’s important to always address discrimination, bullying and hate in any situation. Learn to identify instances of discrimination, bullying and hate in the workplace and know how or when you should intervene. If you are a teacher, check out these lessons to help you lead your students in real conversations about the kinds of bullying they really see and hear at school, learning how they can be upstanders to help prevent bullying.
4. Ask questions. Get the right answers!
It’s perfectly okay to be an ally for trans and non-binary people and not have all the answers. You may ask yourself “what’s the difference between sex and gender?” or “is gender non-conforming the same thing as being trans?”
Get the answers to your questions! You can find some of them here.
5. Join the fight!
One of the best ways to support trans and non-binary people is by joining a movement or an organization already doing the work to fight against LGBTQ+ discrimination and inequality. Organizations like ours have many resources that can help you fight against hate and discrimination, especially on a legislative level.
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Weekend of Resilience - Community Town Hall
In Partnership with Life is Work
Date: Saturday, 11/19/2022
Location: The Kehrein Center For The Arts, 5628 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60644
We will be hosting a Community Town Hall to raise concerns that need to be addressed. This will include a moderated roundtable with trans-identified community leaders and public officials to discuss topics affecting the trans community. There will also be a community tabling area for non-profits and trans-led businesses.
Weekend of Resilience - Community Healing Circle
In Partnership with Chicago Therapy Collective
Date: Sunday, 11/20/2022
Location: The CTC Office and on the adjacent street, 5237 N Clark St Floor #2, Chicago, IL 60640
We will be starting with a personal healing moment exclusively with trans-identified community members inside the CTC office. Outside at the corner of Clark and Farragut Ave for a Transgender Day of Remembrance honoring the lives of those we lost, including Elise Malary, one of our own friends and most beloved. Ending with food and music to end on a hopeful note.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
In partnership with Transgender Advocacy Council
Date: Sunday, 11/20/2022
Location: Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Transgender Day of Remembrance
In partnership with The Rainbow Room
Date: Wednesday, 11/16/2022
Location: Bucks County Courthouse, 100 N Main Street, Doylestown, PA 18901
Trans Day of Resilience March
In partnership with the House of Tulips
Date: Sunday, 11/20/2022
Location: House of Tulip - 700 Elysian Fields Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117
House of Tulips is hosting a March throughout downtown New Orleans that ends at City Hall with a call to action to city officials. Please join us as we March to celebrate the memory of those lost and remind our community that through it all we are resilient.
Rochester NY 2022 Transgender Day of Remembrance
In partnership with W.A.V.E Women Inc.
Date: Sunday, 11/20/2022
Location: MLK Lodge, 353 Court St, Rochester, NY 14607
The morning of November 20th we will be presenting The TDOR Free Community Brunch, "Remember Us Now!" The free community event will invite members of the Trans, LGBTQIA+ and Allied communities out to spend the afternoon in fellowship sitting down to eat, remember and imagine a more accepting world together.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
In partnership with Translatinx Network
Date: Sunday, 11/20/2022
Location: St. Bartholomew's Church, 325 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022
Transgender Day of Remembrance
In partnership with Diversity Alliance of Puget Sound
Date: Sunday, 11/20/2022
Location: University Unitarian Universalist Church - Seattle or Tacoma Locations
This year Diversity Alliance of Puget Sound will host two in-person events in Seattle and Tacoma for TDOR. The events will run from 6-9 p.m. on 11/20 and include speakers, a panel discussion, a candlelight vigil and networking reception after the event to help foster community.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
In partnership with Empowering the Transgender Community
Date: Sunday, 11/20/2022
Location: Metropolitan Community Church of Washington, DC (MCCDC), 474 Ridge St NW, Washington, DC 20001
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