Remembrance Blog
TG DOR 11/19/2011
Time: Saturday, November 19 , 2011 from 7:00pm – 9:30pm Location: Farish Hall at the University Of Houston, Main Campus View Larger Map More Info: The LGBT Resource Center is hosting Houston’s Transgender Unity Committee’s Day of Remembrance Memorial. This eye-opening event allows us to take time to remember those that have lost their lives due to violence against transgender people. Download the 2011 Transgender Day of Remembrance...
read moreThe Truth of Remembrance
Social violence begins with social oppression. Houston transgender people are routinely denied employment, social services and medical care. Emergency homeless shelters routinely refuse to house transgender people. Almost half of all Houston transgender people are victims of violent attacks. “We cannot change what happened. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe this: it’s everyone’s responsibility to overcome prejudice.”...
read moreRemember Our History
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld was a pioneer in the field of sex orientation and gender identity. Hirschfeld was the first to popularize some of the most common terms used to describe the trans experience: Transvestite (Transvestitismus, 1910), Transgender (Transgesticismus, 1918) and Transsexual (Transsexualismus, 1923). Through his Institute of Sexology, Hirschfeld oversaw the first male-to-female sex reassignment surgery in 1920. On May 6th, 1933 the Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science was raided and destroyed by Nazis....
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