Springfield College Hosts Transgender Day of Remembrance Ceremony
Springfield College All-College Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA) and Spiritual Life hosted its Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony on Nov. 18 inside the Campus Union.
Springfield College All-College Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA) and Spiritual Life hosted its Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony on Nov. 18 inside the Campus Union.
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.
TDOR was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence since Rita Hester's death, and began an important tradition that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.
