“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” #transrightsarehumanrightsA post shared by Mo Ismail (@wanderingpeacock) on The first US garden memorial to transgender people whose lives were cut short by violence can be found in St.
Louis, Missouri.Worldwide, trans people are particularly vulnerable to discrimination and hate crimes. In 2019, an estimated 27 trans or gender non-conforming people were killed in the US.Worldwide, the situation is even worse.
Between Transgender Day of Remembrance in November 2018 and November 2019, an estimated 331 were killed, with 130 alone in Brazil.The real figure could be considerably higher.