Posts Tagged ‘transgender day of remembrance’
Ceremony at Oakland center honors victims of anti-transgender violence
Discrimination and violence showed no boundaries at Friday’s Transgender Day of Remembrance at the Oakland Peace Center. Mexico, Brazil and India. Maryland, Florida and Louisiana. Turkey and Canada. All these are states and countries—their names read aloud in melancholy succession at the event–in which transgendered women were murdered this year.
Read MoreOUSD enrollment drops, academic performance still below state average
School board members found out Wednesday that Oakland district school enrollment is almost 1000 students fewer than school officials estimated last year, and that achievement data remains below state levels in several key subjects.
Read MoreMurder of transgender woman Brandy Martell raises concerns about hate crime
Brandy Martell, 37, a Hayward resident, was killed in downtown Oakland early Sunday morning. Martell, who identified as transsexual, was in her car at the corner of Franklin and 13th Streets in Oakland’s city center when she was shot repeatedly through the window and side door. Hers was one of three murders in the city that night.
Read MoreSorrowful ceremony honors transgender people who died in past year
Oakland joined the Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial this past week, with a mournful roll call honoring more than 200 transgendered people who died in different countries last year, many the victims of hate crimes.
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