This year's annual Transgender Day of Remembrance comes after an election that has heightened fears in the LGBTQ community.
A memorial of flags on the lawn of the Pa. Capitol commemorating transgender Americans who lost their lives to violence over the past year, Nov. 20, 2024.State officials and LGBTQ Pennsylvanians gathered in the capitol Wednesday for the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, recognizing those who have lost their lives over the past year due to discrimination.
According to tracking by the Human Rights Campaign, 36 transgender Americans were killed in the past year, continuing an upward trend – although it’s unclear how much of this is an increase in violence and how much is due to better reporting, with the actual number of deaths almost certainly being much higher.
“I am certain that this incredible human being is no longer with us because our society failed him,” said his mother, Malinda Harnish Clatterbuck. In Harrisburg, the state legislature is split between a Democratic-majority House and a Republican-controlled Senate. Last year, the former successfully passed a bill adding LGBTQ people to the state’s non-discrimination ordinance, but the Senate GOP leadership declined to take it up, and the bill will have to be re-filed and passed again when the new session cycle starts next year.
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