A-Infos (en) France, UCL Press Release: TDoR: Commemoration is Political! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) takes place every year on November 20th. 
This day commemorates trans people killed by transphobia, murdered, by 
suicide, or victims of financial and medical insecurity, and highlights 
the importance of trans struggles. More than ever, in a context of 
rising fascism, it is necessary to defend the rights of trans people! 
---- From October 2024 to September 2025, 281 trans people were 
murdered, according to the official Trans Murder Monitoring Report. We 
know this is only the tip of the iceberg; this monitoring is made 
extremely difficult by the insecurity and isolation experienced by trans 
people, which render them invisible. Among the victims, 88% are people 
of color, 90% are women, 34% are sex workers, and 14% are trans rights 
activists. In an increasingly harsh and transphobic social and political 
context, trans people are also eight times more likely than cisgender 
people to attempt suicide in their lifetime.

Between precariousness, racism, and transmysonic discrimination, the 
voices of trans people and their struggles are silenced. This is a 
direct consequence of the growing reactionary political agenda that 
seeks to deny the existence of trans people by stripping them of their 
rights and dehumanizing them.

Transphobic attacks continue everywhere. From the United States, Trump's 
fascist policies systematically target trans people: exclusion from 
sports clubs, denial of self-determination, restrictions on access to 
healthcare and hormone therapy, and the end of suicide prevention 
campaigns in the LGBTQ+ community-the list goes on. In the United 
Kingdom, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a binary view of gender, 
siding with conservative organizations. In France, while the High 
Authority for Health affirmed, in its recommendations, the 
self-determination of transgender people and the need to depathologize 
healthcare pathways, it bowed to pressure from conservative lobbies by 
refusing to apply these recommendations to transgender minors. It is 
also important to remember that subsidies to feminist and LGBTQ+ 
organizations such as Planned Parenthood are being cut, and resource 
centers are closing one after another, restricting effective access to 
necessary healthcare for transgender people.

Billionaires are joining forces to finance these hate campaigns and are 
thriving in the authoritarian capitalism that is taking hold, 
particularly in the West. In France, as elsewhere, governments are 
cutting budgets and public health and education services. This trend 
toward austerity fosters a resurgence of conservatism, which further 
marginalizes already vulnerable people. Added to this are moral panics, 
such as those surrounding the participation of trans people in official 
sporting competitions.

This current context underscores the crucial importance of supporting 
trans struggles and reminding everyone that bourgeois and reactionary 
policies must be fought by the entire social movement. Our trans 
struggles support the associations, organizations, and unions that fight 
with and for the rights of trans people! Our trans struggles are 
antifascist, anticapitalist, antiracist, and feminist!

Our thoughts are with all the trans people killed by transphobia. Every 
victim is one too many!

Let's fight for a trans feminism!

Libertarian Communist Union, November 19, 2025

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?TDoR-commemorer-est-politique
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