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trans remembrance day
I don't know if others deal with this but I get a lot of announcements on my social media of people recognizing and upholding "Trans Remembrance Day"... keep wanting to say something but keep just being polite and passing by quietly. Anyone else having a similar experience?
How many fucking invented holidays do they have at this point? They're trying to exceed the Catholic Church's number of Feast Days.
They are pushing it down everyone’s throat. It’s like a religion. If you say it enough people will believe it. Like Santa Claus.
I realise I'm actually really offended by the phrase trans remembrance day because to me Remembrance Day is 11th November or Remembrance Sunday and I feel it debases it to add trans to the front of it for this manufactured, manipulative shitshow.
I came here to say exactly this.
It seems there is nothing that can't be used to push this agenda. They really have no shame.
Yes, totally. Everyday is ‘think about how this affects trans people above all else or you get attacked’ day.
They should just change it to Every Day is a Trans Day because they don’t let us stop reading or hearing about them for even a minute.
I have been retweeting the posts on twitter pointing out that no trans people have been murdered this year in UK and highlighting number of women killed. I am also waiting for 25 Nov Day against violence against women to post some stats about femicide and ask those instituions piously intoning remembrance to mark womens deaths. Do you think they will? I have bit my tongue about a post in a facebook group that is for a real life organisation I am part of. I dont have much contact in lockdown and dont want to lose it all
A human rights Facebook group I'm in used a post about TDoR to announce the removal of a perfectly reasonable GC post from the group and warn the woman who posted it that anything in a similar vein would be removed, as even though they want to encourage discussion between people with different views, she had "crossed the line" and the page owner implied that her post was was "spreading misinformation" and was "hate speech". This was a post about the potential impacts of gender neutral bathrooms on women globally. The page owner said "If you want to remain in the group, find something else to talk about. What other human rights issues are you passionate about that don't relate to trans issues? Post about that instead. You are free to post your views elsewhere but this is not the place."
Sigh
I have no beef with trans people and their allies remembering trans people who have been murdered or committed suicide due to prejudice. I do have a beef, however, with trans activists claiming falsely that trans people are the demographic most subject to violence in the world (that "honor" goes to female infants and fetuses in Southeast Asia/ China), and the demographic most subject to suicide based on society's rejection of them.
Besides the fact that murder / suicide data on trans people due to societal trans prejudice has been shown to be false again and again, the word "trans" itself has shifted meaning again and again, and, I imagine that most reports of violence against trans people don't even begin to take that into account.
I look forward to sometime in the future, participating in a Girls and Women Remembrance Day, a Day that recognizes the deaths of human females due to misogyny and male-on-female violence.
Exactly.. at one time I didn’t even notice these kinds of posts but they have become so ubiquitous in my circle that they seem meaningless even if they were based on something, and knowing that the numbers are actually so misleading I get irritated and want to react. But I have had a few interactions on social media in the past and it just doesn’t seem like a great idea so I’m hanging back this time around...