November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance. With this month’s killings of transgender women in South Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania, 2021 is now the deadliest year for transgender and gender nonconforming people in the United States. “We are at a tragic and deeply upsetting moment,” said Joni Madison, interim president of Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, which has tracked such fatalities since 2013. The killings of Marquiisha Lawrence, 28, Jenny De Leon, 25, and Angel Naira, 36, bring the year’s total to 47, the organization said. The count now exceeds 2020’s high of 44, a number that has been rising steadily in recent years. And such tallies, the organization said, don’t include victims who are misgendered by authorities, as Lawrence initially was, or whose deaths go unreported. Read more at the link in our bio. #transgenderremembranceday