‘She just wanted to live how she wanted to’: couple mourn their trans daughter
Alice Litman, 20, was facing a five-year wait for a gender identity assessment when she died. Her parents say a complete overhaul of trans care is needed
@MLClark They sure would.
@MLClark @Graci November 20th is the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
It's the day when we remember our lost brothers and sisters.
Every loss is preventable. All of the suffering, pain and ugliness is fundamentally unnecessary.
It is good to remember the dead, to honor their sacrifice and to know the loss. When we lose their light, we are all affected.
Honor the dead. Fight like hell for the living!
It is no crime, it is no sin to only want to be yourself. To deny that, is an atrocity.
@NiveusLepus @MLClark I cry every year.
@NiveusLepus @MLClark I remember when Gwen started TDOR. (We were part of the same group on AOL). Never thought it would continue this long. Never though it would have to.
As someone who is white and generally passes as a cis man, I'm relatively privileged. For me, the hardest thing about being part of the trans community is this. It's that every week, there's someone we're talking back from the ledge, taking to the hospital, or finding out they're gone. *Every week*.
Or finding out they've been beaten or killed.
I've not been able to remain active because it's just more than I can bear.
@tyghebright @MLClark @Graci We all have our talents, our abilities, and our tolerances. We also each have our place in the balance.
Not everyone is or can be on the front lines, not everyone can be a medic, etc.
The support you can give, the person you are, the fact that you do, indeed, care, that makes a difference.
We would all be diminished without you. It all matters, every little bit holding back the dark, and advancing hope, matters.
You are enough.
@Graci
Oh, my heart. 💙 So many people would still be with us, if only we'd remembered to build a kinder world along the way.