Transgender Day of Remembrance

San Francisco Transgender Community to Honor Transgender Day of Remembrance with Rally, March, and Community Programming

San Francisco Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025 will begin at the steps of SF City Hall at 5:30PM with opening remarks by community leaders. The crowd will then march to the SF LGBT Center for a Program at 7:00PM led by community members and organizers, featuring artists paying homage to those we have lost this year.

“TDOR is an opportunity for our communities to process the immense grief that comes with our existence. Every year, we see more of our chosen family disappear – and there is no justice – how does one cope with that? TDOR gives us the tools to gather together & work towards healing – for our communities, and for the world at large.”

• TDOR Committee

This Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), the transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex and 2-spirit (TGNCI2S) communities of San Francisco come together to honor those that have passed this year.

As TGNCI2S people all over the world continue to experience high levels of harassment, discrimination, and fatal violence, we must continue to fight for the safety and dignity of our communities.

Since last TDOR, reportedly 281 trans, nonbinary and/or gender nonconforming people worldwide have died due to violence, suicide, or unknown causes.

We acknowledge that the number of recorded violent deaths in our communities is likely to be an underestimation, since oftentimes cases of violence and harassment against TGNCI2S communities goes unreported. We also acknowledge that this number does not account for those in our communities that lost their lives due to inequitable access to resources and support, with transphobia as an underlying root cause. Additionally, we acknowledge that violence and harassment due to transphobia in our communities disproportionately affect Black transgender women. Lastly, we stand with transmasculine individuals of color, whose experiences often go unrecognized.

“Allyship is more than just showing up at rallies and protests, more than just saying oh I have a trans friend, sibling, cousin, more than just knowing my pronouns and preferred name, more than a policy that passed and signed off by your local city officials, allyship means respect, being accountable and doing your inner work to be a better human being in every moment you.”

• Kazani Finao, Banko Brown Coalition

In the process of organizing Trans Day of Remembrance we feel a profound obligation to uphold an expansive, multicultural, and multifaceted approach to what it means to remember. So what does it mean to remember? There’s not just one answer. Remembrance means mourning, it means celebrating and uplifting the life and legacy of our ancestors, it means going through the process of grief, it means coming together as a community to process collectively, to get organized, to recommit ourselves to trans liberation. In short – we mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Celebrating the life and legacy of our ancestors means fighting for the world they fought for and the world we all deserve. What we learn from Miss Major, Juan Evans, Monica Roberts, Leslie Feinberg, Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson, and so many others is that we have a sacred responsibility to engage in political education, community care and mutual aid, and to get organized to fight for Trans Liberation and the better world they and we deserve!

Trans Liberation means building a world that fosters community, love, growth, and self-determination for all people. This world can only be built on a system where everyone has housing, healthcare, education, food, and all the basic needs of human existence as basic human rights; a society that deprives us of those things among plenty is violence as well! And that means Trans Liberation is tied to global liberation and resistance – Trans Liberation is part of the class struggle. We know none of us are free until all of us are free.

Health & Safety: Masks are recommended. If you currently have COVID–19/Monkeypox symptoms, tested positive, or have been around anyone who tested positive for COVID-19/Monkeypox, we ask that you not attend this event.

Accessibility: The SF LGBT Center is wheelchair accessible, and in proximity to several nearby public transportation stops. There will be ASL as well as Spanish Translation via headset.

For more information or individual interviews/statement requests please contact:
Niko Storment (707) 721-6327 / niko@rosencreativehouse.com

Join us Thursday, Nov 20th at 5 PM at the City Hall Steps to march with us, or meet us directly at the LGBT Center.