{"id":7013,"date":"2020-11-16T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacmh.org\/?p=7013"},"modified":"2023-06-21T12:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:48:19","slug":"transgender-day-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacmh.org\/transgender-day-of-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Day of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance. This is a moment to gather together in a collective memorial for people killed because their gender identity does not fall within social construct norms. Gender is often a socially-constructed binary deeming how one ought to appear as male or female (Weir & Piquette, 2018)<\/em>. United States of America society correlates gender to one\u2019s biological sex, yet gender performance ebbs and flows on a spectrum, shifting throughout generations and cultures. Transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people identify or express gender within the spectrum, while cis-gender people perform their gender according to the binary that matches biological sex. <\/p>\n\n\n\nTGNC are at higher risk of violent death<\/h2>\n\n\n\n