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, is the 11th International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). It is a day when we remember that every day, all over the world, thousands of trans people are excluded, persecuted, hated, mistreated, subject to aggression and routinely murdered or driven to suicide because of our so-called differences from other members of mainstream cis society. A system which tolerates and accommodates such hatred, prejudice and bigotry is unacceptable, and must be fought without concession, in the name of its past and present victims, and also in the name of its victims to come.