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Article: COLUMN: Gender identity is not just biological determinism
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- November 21, 2006
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Jenna Brager
University Wire
11-21-2006
(The Diamondback) (U-WIRE) COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- According to Gwen Smith, a San Francisco-based transgender activist and founder of the Remembering Our Dead project, a transgender person is murdered every two weeks. In a recent editorial in the Washington Blade, Smith said, "In a year, 26 people on average are dead. In a decade, that's 260 transgender people." In addition, 51 youths (individuals under the age of 30) have been murdered "in attacks motivated by their gender identity or expression," since 1995. Seven of those murders occurred in Washington.
Monday, the Pride Alliance and the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equity honored ...
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... ... Hollywood's Transgender Task Force will host the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on Thursday, November 20, 2008 starting ... following the candlelight march. Thousands will gather at Transgender Day of Remembrance events throughout Southern California to ...
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