{"id":1069,"date":"2020-11-20T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T09:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2020-11-03T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T10:01:45","slug":"transgender-day-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/11\/20\/transgender-day-of-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Day of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1070 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/candles-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/candles-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/candles.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honours the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.<\/p>\n<p>Transgender Day of Remembrance \u00a0was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honour the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence since Rita Hester&#8217;s death, and began an important tradition that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honours the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. Transgender Day of Remembrance \u00a0was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honour the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/11\/20\/transgender-day-of-remembrance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transgender Day of Remembrance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commemorative-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}