Today is one of those day we wish we didn’t have, but it’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. Ever since 1999, Nov. 20 has been designated as a day of remembrance for all those transgender people who have been murder.
In the 1990s, three women, Rita Hester, Chanelle Pickett and Monique Thomas, all transgendered were murdered. Still in 2025, 10 years after the U.S. Supreme Court has made LGBTQIA marriage legan, the majority of states still allow an outrageous defense of “gay and trans panic.” In other words, a man can argue in his defense he got violent with a transgender person because he was unaware she was transgender.
It’s a foolish and outrageous defense. It’s akin to Jim Crow Segregation laws that only benefit white cisgendered men. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) presented bills that would ban this ludricrous defense at the national level. Yet, they both failled in their respective levels.
Murder is murder no matter a person’s anatomy. According to Human Rights Watch, over 5,000 transgendered people have been murdered in the last 20 years. There were about 350 murders reported just for the 2024 year alone.
We can do better than this. I’d argue that most men are targeting these women just as they do cisgendered women. Whenever someone rejects their advances, they see that as a right to kill them.
If you ask me, I think a lot of men find transgender women beautiful and sexy but they are afraid of being seen as gay to other men. Yet, this is just typical of the toxic masculinity to criticize women who don’t cater to their desires. I’ve seen people criticize celebrities such as Hannah Waddingham and Hailey Bieber as transgender. These same criticisms arose years ago against Lady Gaga when people thought she had had a penis supposedly from a concert performance in which her underwear was briefly shown and people though she had a bulge.
When interviewed by Anderson Cooper in a 2011 interview, her response was “Maybe I do. Would it be so terrible?” This left Cooper, who is openly gay himself, lost for words. Bieber has also supported the LGBTQIA community saying it’s an insult as trans people are beautiful.
If you want my opinion, based on the recent revelation that both Jeffrey Epstein and Joseph James DeAngelo, i.e. the Golden State Killer, have micropenises. Maybe these men are afraid that women have a bigger one than them.
Living in this world can be hard enough. It’s even harder when insecure and envious people act like you shouldn’t exist just to make them feel better.
In a world where religious figures are being arrested and convicted almost every day on child sexual abuse or child porn allegations, we need to be focusing our attention more on the safety of people, not letting predators have more leniency to commit their crimes against more people.
What do you think? Please comment.
Zane Says 