Transgender Awareness Week

🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Awareness Week is a seven-day period in Transgender Awareness Month (the month of November) focused on making visible the lives of trans people and bringing awareness to the struggles and injustices that trans people face.

After the week ends, November 20th is known as Transgender Day of Remembrance. It is a solemn day dedicated to mourning and remembering lives lost to anti-trans violence.

Trans people are an integral and beautiful part of the LGBTQ+ community - but trans community members also face extreme political discrimination and elevated violence.

So this week, we encourage allies to the trans community to learn, listen, and reflect. Learn about trans people and the issues they face. Listen to trans leaders and trans people in your community. Reflect on ways you can perform active allyship to the trans community around you, like by being an active bystander, voting with trans friends in mind, working to be inclusive of trans people in all settings, using correct pronouns, and challenging past beliefs and assumptions.

Visibility is powerful. Awareness and education can lead to positive change. Let’s work toward a better world for our trans community members! 🩷 🤍 🩵
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