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Transgender day of remembrance at my local university next Tuesday

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ContessaHallelujahSparklehorse · 14/11/2018 14:56

www.reading.ac.uk/internal/diversity/diversity-events-news.aspx

More text from an email below:

"Transgender Day of Remembrance is marked each year on 20 November. It is a day on which we celebrate our trans staff and students, but also remember those affected by violence against the trans community in the UK and beyond, particularly over the last year. We will mark the day by a short ceremony at 1pm as follows.

Flag-raising ceremony and speeches

Monday 20 November, 1.00pm - 1.40pm, flagpole between Whiteknights House and the Library.

This event is hosted by Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Van de Noort, by Nozomi Tolworthy the RUSU Diversity Officer, and by Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Simon Chandler-Wilde. It will feature short speeches from the Acting VC on behalf of the University, and from the trans community, including guest speaker Amber Edwards, Chair of the Oracle Pride Employee Network, Oracle. Representatives of RUSU and our LGBT+ Staff Network will read out the names of some of those worldwide who have suffered death from transphobic violence in the last year.

All staff and students are welcome to join us to mark this occasion and pay our respects."

Even my terribly woke DH forwarded this onto me with a raised eyebrow and a "Really?"

Hmm

Any others going on at your local universities?

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AssassinatedBeauty · 16/11/2018 19:22

It's not gender based it's sex based.

VerbeenaBeeks · 16/11/2018 19:16

Eh?

GoldenPomBearBadge · 16/11/2018 19:14

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GoldenPomBearBadge · 16/11/2018 19:13

The UN webpage for The International day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women talks about gender based violence.

VerbeenaBeeks · 16/11/2018 19:13

Was a few weeks ago now, was before the one linked above.
Think it was longer than that one.

AssassinatedBeauty · 16/11/2018 19:08

I'll keep looking.

VerbeenaBeeks · 16/11/2018 19:07

Yes, that thread was one of them. There was another one worse though and much longer.

PerverseConverse · 16/11/2018 19:01

Perhaps, thank you.

AssassinatedBeauty · 16/11/2018 18:59

There's this one @PerverseConverse

Trans Awareness Week www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3421735-Trans-Awareness-Week

Maybe that's the one Verbeena means.

PerverseConverse · 16/11/2018 18:54

I can only find this one.

VerbeenaBeeks · 16/11/2018 18:27

@VerbeenaBeeks there's more than one thread about trans remembrance day?

Definitely, have a search assuming the thread hasn't been taken down. I think it's still standing though.

PerverseConverse · 16/11/2018 18:24

@VerbeenaBeeks there's more than one thread about trans remembrance day?

VerbeenaBeeks · 16/11/2018 18:16

I'm trying to link the thread but can't swap between threads for some reason. It's this comment from Weetabixandshreddies on the Mumsnet is full of trans hate thread.@Verbeena
That thread shocked me too and tbh just proved that all of the arguments that those people are not trans phobic or aren't against all trans people simply aren't true. They showed their true colours on that thread.

perverse converse - nah, I'm betting it's not this one that "peak terfed" the poster. This one (there's been numerous) is pretty tame and only three pages long and only started 2 days ago.
They'll no doubt be referring to one of the other ones - one of which was disgusting with lots of deletions.

FrumpyTrumpy · 16/11/2018 18:11

International day for the elimination of violence against women is 25 November. Weird that you don’t know anything about it.

This is like when men complain ‘when is international men’s day’ because they haven’t bothered to engage with the fact that they have one, and only want an excuse to bitch about international women’s day.

It's nothing like that because men don't actually need a day. Like trans people in this country don't actually need a day.

So the Uni flying the flag half mast for this and not a day to end violence against women is silly.

FrumpyTrumpy · 16/11/2018 18:09

I have no issue with trans day or whatever, but a day of remembrance when they aren't being murdered (like women actually are) is a problem.

starcrossedseahorse · 16/11/2018 17:57

Why do we never hear of all of this violence against transpeople? if it happened as often as they state, they would be ramming it down our throats surely?

Ifonlyus · 16/11/2018 17:54

International day for the elimination of violence against women is 25 November

Honestly never heard of it and I work in a council building who you'd expect to be on it with regards such a date.

Ifonlyus · 16/11/2018 17:52

Oh ffs. How indulgent of the Uni. My newsfeed and newspaper this week has been full of girls and young women who have been murdered in the most violent ways by men. Where's their day of remembrance and services and flags and sad face solidarity?

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 16/11/2018 17:27

As far as I know a lot of transwomen are killed (not in the UK) but afaik that is because they are prostituted, and that has a pretty high fatality rate.

No problem at all with a trans day if remembrance as long as it is honest and recognises that in the UK trans people have the same rights as everyone, and are far better off than in other places in the world.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 16/11/2018 14:34

I have come across it but only as a thing that women's organisations mark, not something that companies, universities etc commemorate. That being so, I don't think it is in the least weird that people haven't heard of it.

IStandWithPosie · 16/11/2018 14:28

I didn’t know about that day either. And it falls on my violent ex’s birthday too. Seems fitting.

PerverseConverse · 16/11/2018 13:26

I didn't know about that day either. I've attended 4 universities and never heard of it in amongst all the other days that are noted.

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ContessaHallelujahSparklehorse · 16/11/2018 13:20

Actually I didn't know anything about the international day for elimination of violence against women (or had forgotten such a day existed) so that is helpful, thanks. Perhaps I will ask DH to ensure his university has a gathering and reads out the names of some notable women assaulted or killed by their partners/spouses.

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Blanchedupetitpois · 16/11/2018 13:11

Two actual women a week are murdered in Britain, usually by their partners, and we don’t have flags at half mast for any of them!

International day for the elimination of violence against women is 25 November. Weird that you don’t know anything about it.

This is like when men complain ‘when is international men’s day’ because they haven’t bothered to engage with the fact that they have one, and only want an excuse to bitch about international women’s day.

Racecardriver · 16/11/2018 13:01

I don’t think we have one of these...that said we have a very large, very vocal, very conservative body of Muslim students we we get significantly less of the usual university student shit going on. Quite fond of my uni actually.

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