The Plight of the Transgendered

Dear Jim Bob,

I just read that November 20 is called “Transgender Remembrance Day” and there is a movement to get this day promoted in schools.  What’s this about Jim Bob?

Sam in California

Dear Sam,

This is going to be hard to explain, but its another example of a small group of folks trying to make a minor problem a big deal.  Transgender Remembrance Day was organized about 10 years ago by a lesbian who had a friend murdered.  Evidently, the founder thought the slaughter of the transgendered was an epidemic of some kind.   So, the Transgender Remembrance Day got started.  All kinds of gay and lesbian groups got on board for this “day”.  They seem to believe transgendered people are on the verge of a holocaust!

The statistics on how many  transgendered folks are being murdered each year is a bit sketchy.  The people who believe this day is necessary quote a statistic that claims one person a month in the US is being murdered because they are a transgendered person.  Hmmm.    This means about 12 Transgendered folks a year are being rubbed out by someone.  Since the total homicides in the US approach 20,000, this hardly seems to be a thriving category.  It is also a stretch to say the person was murdered because they were a transgendered person.  I would think it is more in the category of a politically motivated assumption to support another left-wing cause.  This is kind of like gay global warming.

For your continuing education on this subject, please take a peek at the following video of a young person extolling the virtue of Transgender Remembrance Day.   Please understand the person on the video is not really a woman.  It is a man, who is trying to “transition”  himself into  a woman.  This person has other videos on display at UTube lamenting the difficulties of his “transition”.