share
November 19, 2022 · 4 min read

Joint Statement TDoR 2022: Mourning, Caring, Mobilising

Drawing, in shades of purple and violet, of protesters holding posters

This joint statement was developed by TGEU, GATE, ILGA World, APTN, and ESWA on Trans Day of Remembrance. You can find the full list of signatories below.

On 20 November 2022, we pause to mark Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) and raise awareness about violence against trans and gender-diverse people. Today we mourn and honour the 327 trans and gender-diverse people who were reported murdered worldwide between 1 October 2021 and 30 September 2022, whose lives might otherwise be forgotten.

We are living through dangerous times in which trans and gender-diverse communities around the globe are facing unprecedented hardships due to multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, stigma, marginalisation, and oppression. Trans women and trans femmes, Black and people of colour, sex workers, migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, Roma, people with disabilities, those living with HIV, and the elderly, to name just a few, are even more vulnerable in these troublesome times.

Over the last few years, our movement has gained increased visibility and pushed forward progressive and inclusive legal measures. However, a large part of our community continues to struggle with high levels of violence, social discrimination, poor health outcomes, economic hardship, unemployment, and homelessness. Moreover, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are still being felt and the rise of the anti-gender movement is severely impacting us.

Right-wing populist and anti-feminist movements’ mobilising against gender equality as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) have gained power across the region in recent years. This dominance brings to light an increasingly transnationally organised and independently financed anti-gender movement that attacks the basic rights of trans people.

Trans activists and groups are working relentlessly, together with governments, other social movements, and allies, to resist those who would dehumanise us, and to ensure that each and every trans and gender-diverse person can lead a safe and fulfilling life. Today, we remind the world that we will continue resisting and challenging oppressive systems until the rights and lives of trans and gender-diverse people are upheld everywhere.

Join us and take action!

  • Ensure that your feminism is intersectional and trans inclusive
  • Share data on anti-trans violence
  • Treasure and support trans people who are alive
  • Educate yourself and others
  • Learn more about intersectional organising and social justice movements
  • Volunteer your work to trans groups
  • Donate and/or fund community services and organisations directed at supporting trans people, especially trans people that face intersectional marginalisation, like trans of colour, sex workers and/or migrants.
  • Hold policy and decision makers accountable
  • Show compassion

Together, we mourn, we care, we mobilise.

Download statement
Trans Murder Monitoring 2022

Signatories

The signatories of this Statement (listed below) are organisations representing trans and gender-diverse people on the national, regional, and international level.

  1. ACCEPT Association, Romania/Eastern Europe
  2. APTN – Asia Pacific Transgender Network
  3. ARELAS – Asociación de familias de menores trans de Galicia, Spain
  4. AZAD LGBTI Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan
  5. Catcalls of Leipzig CHALKBACK, Germany
  6. Creative Being, United Kingdom
  7. Dr. Mega Consulting, Germany & international
  8. Égides – l’alliance internationale francophone pour l’égalité et les diversités, Canada
  9. ESWA – European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance, Europe
  10. GATE, International
  11. ILGA Portugal – Intervenção Lésbica, Gay, Bissexual, Trans e Intersexo, Portugal
  12. ILGA World, International
  13. ILGA-Europe, Europe and Central Asia
  14. Insight NGO, Ukraine
  15. Migration Hub Heidelberg, Germany
  16. National Trans Coalition human rights NGO, Armenia
  17. Prizma közösség, Hungary
  18. Proud Seniors Greece LGBTQI+ 50+ individuals, Greece
  19. Queer Cyprus Association, Cyprus
  20. Queer Trans Liberation, Germany
  21. Rede Trans Brasil, Brazil
  22. RFSL – The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Rights, Sweden
  23. RFSL Ungdom, Sweden
  24. Seitenwechsel-Berlin Sport club, Germany
  25. Sens Pozitiv Association, Romania
  26. STAR-STAR Skopje, North Macedonia
  27. TGEU, Europe and Central Asia
  28. The Garnet Initiative, Sweden
  29. TLLPC, Australia
  30. Trans Dynamics, Morocco
  31. Trans Limerick Community, Ireland
  32. Trans România, Romania
  33. Trans ry, Finland
  34. Trans*Coalition, Caucasus countries, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
  35. TransActual, United Kingdom
  36. TransFormA, North Macedonia
  37. Transgender Equality Network Ireland, Ireland
  38. Transmen Indonesia, Indonesia