Today is the 11th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance. These people can talk about it far more eloquently than I can:

International Transgender Day of Remembrance website
Helen at Bird of Paradox (and The F Word)
Queenemily at Questioning Transphobia
Ruth at Look Left of the Pleiades
Lucy at Catspaw
Arwyn at Raising my Boychick

To quote Helen:
Today, 20th November 2009, [...]