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Atlanta To Hold Vigil For Transgender Victims
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The city of Atlanta is planning a vigil to honor transgender people who die in hate-related crimes.
Transgender Remembrance Day will be held at Atlanta City Hall Atrium at 7 p.m. Wednesday. A reception will be held at 6:15 p.m.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports it will honor transgender people killed this year by hate crimes, mass murders or while incarcerated.
The vigil will coincide with national events that will also honor transgender people. Speakers will include representatives from the ACLU of Georgia, Georgia Equality and the Trans Housing Atlanta Program.
Just a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump’s administration argued before the Supreme Court that employers should be allowed to fire workers because they are transgender. The administration also has moved to revoke health care discrimination protections for trans people, rescind trans-friendly guidelines for students’ access to school bathrooms, and sharply restrict trans people’s ability to serve in the military.
The Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBTQ rights organization, released a report on Monday tallying 157 violent deaths of transgender people in the U.S. since 2013, about 80% of them trans women of color.
At least 22 transgender and gender non-conforming people have been killed this year. None of those were in Georgia, but most of the victims were in the South.
Names of the victims will be read at the vigil.
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