11/20/2025
🕯️ Transgender Day of Remembrance — November 20
Today we pause to honor the transgender lives lost to violence, discrimination, and hate. This day is a reminder of the incredible resilience of the transgender community and the reality that too many people still face danger simply for living as who they are.
Transitioning is often a necessary and difficult step toward living in alignment with one’s identity — and it can strengthen families, not harm them.
Misconceptions about gender identity still lead to unfair barriers in family-building, custody decisions, and even the right to parent safely.
Transgender people build families with the same love, commitment, and daily chaos as anyone else. They are parents first — juggling school pickups, bedtime routines, and the hopes they hold for their children. Children benefit from learning compassion, diversity, and the truth that every parent deserves dignity.
As we remember the lives lost, we also advocate for the living. Transgender people deserve safety, respect, and the freedom to create families without fear.
🕯️ Today we honor, we mourn, and we commit to doing better.
