With the global murder rate of trans and gender-diverse people spiking by 6% in the past year, the Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is an opportunity to honour those whose lives have been snuffed out. According to Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) there were a total of 350 trans and gender-diverse people reported to have been murdered between 1 October 2019 and 30 September 2020, representing a 6% increase from 2019.
TDOR, marked annually on 20 November, began in 1998 as a campaign to mourn and politicise the death of transgender lives. The majority of the murders in the past year occurred in Brazil (152), Mexico (57), and the United States (28).