Transgender Day of Remembrance
Nov. 20th, 2009 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheThey are still dead.
That's the thing about murdered people, they stay dead. Their mothers never get to hold them again. They never get up and make coffee again. They never write another poem, never build another house, never swim again. They don't write any more software or toast anyone's health or buy any more tins of soup at the supermarket.
Stop killing them. Stop ignoring them. Stop reporting their deaths as though the inside of their pants is the only thing that matters, or talking about their deaths as though their apparent physical sex change isn't an important part of why they died. Stoppit.
Please.
That's the thing about murdered people, they stay dead. Their mothers never get to hold them again. They never get up and make coffee again. They never write another poem, never build another house, never swim again. They don't write any more software or toast anyone's health or buy any more tins of soup at the supermarket.
Stop killing them. Stop ignoring them. Stop reporting their deaths as though the inside of their pants is the only thing that matters, or talking about their deaths as though their apparent physical sex change isn't an important part of why they died. Stoppit.
Please.