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Why hasn’t our President recognized Transgender Day of Remembrance?
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November 20th, 2019
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The Transgender Day of Remembrance, also known as the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, has been observed annually on November 20 as a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia. It is a day to draw attention to the continued violence endured by transgender people.
The Trump administration has indeed worsened the situation for transgender people with its repeated assaults on their rights. One of its first acts was to roll back protections for trans students in schools. Job discrimination, already pervasive, worsened when President Trump imposed a ban on serving openly in the U.S. military, the nation’s largest employer of trans people.
Moreover, a new proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services would permit health care providers to discriminate against transgender people in the name of “religious freedom.” In addition to increased risk of violence, the estimated 1.4 million trans Americans already have sizable barriers to health care; an alarming 31 percent of this group lack access to health services, according to a 2017 report from NPR.
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