Have a thoughtful Trans Day of Remembrance. This holiday was developed back in 1999 and I became aware of it back when I was a wee middle schooler in the mid-2000s via one of the messageboards (remember those, fellow olds?) that I used to frequent.
The goth community has long served as a safe haven for the outcasts of the world, including many trans people (such as myself). Unfortunately, the rest of the world still has a long way to go and trans people (particularly trans women of color) remain one of the most murdered demographics, not to mention victims of housing and general financial discrimination in life, which is essential a slower way to kill someone. I wish I had something more hopeful to say. I naively assumed that civil rights would improve with time back when I was a middle school closet case and that this day would no longer be necessary, but twenty years later, we are in the midst of a mass hysteria at which transgender people are at the center, essentially a modern succession of the Satanic Panic some decades back and the Red Scare before that. I notoriously hate sequels and the worst sequels are history repeating itself.
The best I can do for now is repeat the adage:
Honor our dead, fight like hell for the living.
