The Koru’s Office and the Prime Minister’s Office have shared their statements for Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Their Majesty the Koru, Willow I said:
Today, take a moment to honour the trans lives that have been lost to hatred, violence and neglect. This day is a reminder of the people who should still be with us and of the prejudice that many continue to face just being themselves.
As Koru, I want to make it clear that every trans person in Hokoria deserves safety, dignity and the freedom to live openly. We stand with our trans citizens and commit ourselves to building a society where no person has to fear being who they are.
May their memories guide us towards something better.
His Excellency the Prime Minister, Christopher Slant said:
As the sun rises, the world enters another day. But this is not just any day- this is 20th November, the transgender day of remembrance.
26 years ago today, this day was founded by a group of trangender individuals, in memory of a few victims of hate crimes the few years prior. That they wanted the world to know that there are terrible people who murder for what they were, purely for something that did not even concern them. “Christ willed it,” they said. Christ did, in fact, not will it.
It seems to me that the world has both advanced a lot and regressed a lot in 26 years. Paradoxically, when transgender individuals can finally be proud to have persevered through all the hardship, the hardships just keep becoming more perilous. Transphobia is rampant and can be expressed freely for some reason. The deaths of Brianna Ghey and Alexa Luciano Ruiz, both in “progressive” nations, just showed us that the struggle is not over.
Transgender folks are one of us. They are humans, and they deserve to live as they would. “Trans rights are human rights” is more than just a slogan; it is a promise. Hate has no place in the world, and certainly not in Hokoria; we will continue to bring on the struggle for the rights of every person, until we are all free.
Until then, we will never stop fighting.