{"id":373,"date":"2008-11-21T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/transgender-day-of-remembrance\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:23:57","slug":"transgender-day-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/transgender-day-of-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Day of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Once a year, there\u2019s a candle-light vigil for every transgender person around the world in the previous year who was killed in a hate crime. Alas, there is never a shortage of names on the list.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/transgender-day-of-remembrance\/\">Shakesville<\/a> has a list and some other background information in a thoughtful post.<br \/>\nOne thing she mentions is that often, the killers of trans people, if they\u2019re even brought to trial, try a \u201ctrans panic\u201d defense, where they claim that discovering the other person was transgender was just so traumatic that murder is acceptable. It&#8217;s the old &#8220;gay panic&#8221; defense, resurrected. In Philadelphia, in just August of this year, <em>in the 21st century<\/em>, this worked.<br \/>\nWhich brings us today\u2019s very timely Agnes: <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/agnes\/2008-11-20\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/98;display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 98px;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/256268.full_.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270910221055021106\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhat a fitting newspaper comic for today, eh? What could be better than a kids comic which depicts rage against a trans person for &#8220;keeping secrets&#8221;? How fucking great. Fuck you too, Agnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Once a year, there\u2019s a candle-light vigil for every transgender person around the world in the previous year who was killed in a hate crime. Alas, there is never a shortage of names on the list. Shakesville has a list and some other background information in a thoughtful post. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/transgender-day-of-remembrance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transgender Day of Remembrance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,25,96],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-transphobia","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}