Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR)

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honours the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honour 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.

You can participate in Transgender Day of Remembrance by attending and/or organizing a vigil on November 20 to honour all those transgender people whose lives were lost to anti-transgender violence that year, and learning about the violence affecting the transgender community.