Enter the HRC, the ACLU, and multiple other national and international organizations who have strategized to empower the Transgender narrative. One of the many strategies that have been employed has been to add special days throughout the calendar year calling attention to the needs of various identities, in order to compel a compassionate response. These “holidays” are celebrated in schools across the US and promoted in media and even in packaging of products as varied as cookies and breakfast cereal.

[list of LGBT-related days]

Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1999. The official statement regarding this day reads: “The Transgender Day of Remembrance […] has been observed annually (from it’s inception) on November 20 as a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia. It is a day to draw attention to the continued violence endured by transgender people.”

The only appropriate response to murder is grief. […] These senseless deaths, however, deserve to be understood according to the actual events and circumstances surrounding the tragic ending of lives that had value and meaning. The Transgender Day of Remembrance fails to honor these lives in a genuine and meaningful way.

The truth is, absolutely nothing connects these deaths to “transphobia”. Most of these deaths occurred in the context of risky and violent circumstances that had nothing to do with their gender. They were murdered while engaging in prostitution. They were shot by intimate partners, or in disputes over drug deals, tax checks, or any number of tragic circumstances. The majority of these crimes have occurred in Brazil, and yet these deaths are being used to manipulate the sympathies of the general public in the US, the UK (where there have been exactly zero murders of transgender individuals in the past two years), and elsewhere by claiming that there is an epidemic of violent, hate induced murder occurring.