![]() ![]() Webb is a Connecticut activist, journalist and an operator for Trans Lifeline (), the first transgender crisis hotline in the U.S. “Every year we hope that when we do these remembrances on the 20th, that the numbers will go down, and a lot of times they stay the same or go up.”Īs a Black trans woman, Karleigh Webb said she’s “afraid of being number 26 or 27 or 30” on the Human Rights Campaign’s list of trans and gender-nonconforming victims of violence. I know people that live in fear of losing their jobs, they live in fear, if they’re a parent, of losing their kids,” Pollack said. “I do know people over the years, who have been attacked. Pollack explained how this violence can extend and manifest physically, socially and politically. People of color are even more disproportionately represented within this group. ![]() In the U.S., transgender people are over four times more likely to be the victims of violent crimes than cisgender people, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. …You still are always wondering, ‘Does that person over there in the restaurant know that I’m trans?’ It’s like you never get over that, and then you wonder, ‘OK, am I going to be hurt today just because I’m trying to live my authentic life?’” “At the same time we remember, your senses are heightened a little bit more. “It kind of grounds me as a reminder of, ‘That’s right, you are one of the people that walk around with a target on your back,” Pollack said. And it’s not because they’re trans, it’s because what’s happening around them is bringing them the pain and the fear that they’ll never be able to be who they know they are.”Ĭourtney Pollack, a trans woman who serves on the board of PFLAG Hartford, said that for her, Transgender Day of Remembrance is grounding. “We still have kids in Connecticut who have suicidal ideations, who are dealing with self harm. “We need to leave space for those who couldn’t hang on anymore,” Ferraiolo said. ![]()
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