WEBVTT 00:00:00.910 --> 00:00:05.969 Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. 00:00:06.750 --> 00:00:08.849 Those of you that are unaware of this day, this 00:00:08.849 --> 00:00:13.009 started back in 1999 as a candlelight visual 00:00:13.009 --> 00:00:17.170 that was organized by Gwendolyn Ann Smith to 00:00:17.170 --> 00:00:21.350 honor Rita Hester who is a black trans female 00:00:21.350 --> 00:00:28.210 who was murdered in November 1998. Originally 00:00:28.210 --> 00:00:33.299 this came from the San Fran Bay Area as an annual 00:00:33.299 --> 00:00:36.899 event to remember all transgender and gender 00:00:36.899 --> 00:00:39.939 nonconforming people who were lost to violence 00:00:39.939 --> 00:00:43.740 and since then has been has grown to be an observed 00:00:43.740 --> 00:00:47.600 day held on November 20th, which is the anniversary 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:55.780 of Chanel Pickett's murder in 1995. Now the HRC 00:00:55.780 --> 00:01:00.880 the human rights campaign, they They obviously 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:06.219 advocate for a lot of LGBTQ plus rights So they 00:01:06.219 --> 00:01:10.140 have some stats here about the transgender community 00:01:10.140 --> 00:01:18.359 since so since 2013 Seven and ten trans and gender 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:22.140 non -conforming victims were people of color 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:27.120 eight and ten were transgender women about six 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:33.700 and ten were black transgender women. And 71 00:01:33.700 --> 00:01:37.500 % were killed by a firearm. In the last 12 months 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:43.700 since the last day of remembrance, 43 .9 % of 00:01:43.700 --> 00:01:47.700 the LGBTQ plus community, specifically the trans 00:01:47.700 --> 00:01:51.760 community has stated that they have experienced 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:54.560 discrimination based on their sex, gender or 00:01:54.560 --> 00:02:00.060 sexual orientation. And 57 .6 % said they were 00:02:00.060 --> 00:02:02.799 less open about their identities compared to 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:08.599 a year ago, and 58 .5 % said they were less visible 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:14.300 in their daily life than a year ago. So that's 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:18.659 a lot. Let me pause right there. Alex, any thoughts 00:02:18.659 --> 00:02:23.639 or any questions from the chats? I'll wait for 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:26.340 questions in the chat. They're on a delay, always 00:02:26.340 --> 00:02:29.870 behind us. I will say it's always important for 00:02:29.870 --> 00:02:34.750 us to take kind of a minute. Right. To take kind 00:02:34.750 --> 00:02:36.930 of a minute to just talk about stuff like this. 00:02:37.050 --> 00:02:40.729 You know, I think it's I think it's an important 00:02:40.729 --> 00:02:44.810 thing for us to do. I'm glad this kind of lined 00:02:44.810 --> 00:02:50.270 out well for us. And so, yeah, I think it's it's 00:02:50.270 --> 00:02:54.009 an important thing to think about. It's often 00:02:54.009 --> 00:03:00.759 a population that we don't think about. in our 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:03.319 daily lives. And again, I think that that when 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:06.599 we talk about the greater, you know, topic of 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:08.580 violence in our in our country, we need it to 00:03:08.580 --> 00:03:13.360 take special note of how many trans people experience 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:16.919 violence, domestic violence, hate based violence, 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:25.780 etc. Yeah. Some other some other stats that I've 00:03:25.780 --> 00:03:31.759 seen are trans people are four times more likely 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:36.800 to be victims of a hate crime. And transgender 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:42.620 women have the largest pay gap of any minority 00:03:42.620 --> 00:03:46.680 in our country. They make about 40 cents less 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:53.319 for every dollar than like a cis male. So. The 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:58.870 the stats are not they're not great, so. Yeah, 00:03:58.870 --> 00:04:04.009 it's this day Definitely kind of sucks. Obviously 00:04:04.009 --> 00:04:07.270 there are websites out there that actually track 00:04:07.270 --> 00:04:11.990 every single person that Has passed away in the 00:04:11.990 --> 00:04:14.629 past 12 months and kind of honors their their 00:04:14.629 --> 00:04:18.050 memory. You can learn about them read their story 00:04:18.050 --> 00:04:21.069 Which is really great. So I kind of urge everyone 00:04:21.069 --> 00:04:25.649 to do that There is one that I do want to talk 00:04:25.649 --> 00:04:32.089 about specifically because I found this one I 00:04:32.089 --> 00:04:34.990 want to say a few months ago or maybe a few weeks 00:04:34.990 --> 00:04:40.089 ago maybe a month ago this actually popped up 00:04:40.089 --> 00:04:44.790 on my social media and so this was a post on 00:04:44.790 --> 00:04:46.870 social media that was meant to honor this person's 00:04:46.870 --> 00:04:49.990 life I had noticed that there were thousands 00:04:49.990 --> 00:04:53.699 of comments And obviously I went through the 00:04:53.699 --> 00:04:56.519 comments and the majority of the comments were 00:04:56.519 --> 00:05:00.000 celebrating the fact that this person had killed 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.019 themselves and rejoicing. And it was meant to 00:05:04.019 --> 00:05:06.339 be like a thing honoring this person's life. 00:05:06.699 --> 00:05:11.800 So I kind of got to know this story pretty well. 00:05:13.060 --> 00:05:18.660 But diving into it, Leah Smith, she was a double 00:05:18.660 --> 00:05:22.689 major in computer science and statistics. She 00:05:22.689 --> 00:05:27.149 was also an advocate for the trans community. 00:05:27.269 --> 00:05:30.990 She spoke on panels trying to advance healthcare 00:05:30.990 --> 00:05:34.910 for the transgender community. And until this 00:05:34.910 --> 00:05:40.589 year's NCAA ban on trans athletes, Leah was a 00:05:40.589 --> 00:05:42.769 proud member of the women's swimming and diving 00:05:42.769 --> 00:05:47.769 team. She was active in multiple... college clubs, 00:05:48.370 --> 00:05:50.250 including the chess club, the Japanese club, 00:05:50.250 --> 00:05:55.250 and also women in computer science. Leah encouraged 00:05:55.250 --> 00:06:00.509 other trans trans students and said, quote, There 00:06:00.509 --> 00:06:03.509 are people in your community that are here for 00:06:03.509 --> 00:06:10.149 you and care about you. I'm the thing that is 00:06:10.149 --> 00:06:13.709 really frustrating to me is that this person 00:06:14.670 --> 00:06:19.230 was obviously very bright. They were trying to 00:06:19.230 --> 00:06:22.250 make the world a better place, getting a double 00:06:22.250 --> 00:06:29.389 major, very hard to do. Leah Smith took her life 00:06:29.389 --> 00:06:35.110 a few months after a transphobic website targeted 00:06:35.110 --> 00:06:40.810 her. I'm not going to mention the website name, 00:06:40.910 --> 00:06:43.709 but essentially they dead named her, which is 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.620 when you use that person's like birth name that 00:06:47.620 --> 00:06:52.379 doesn't match their gender. And then kind of 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:56.660 called out and pointed a lot of information out 00:06:56.660 --> 00:06:59.360 about Leah Smith caused a lot of hate towards 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:03.620 her. And then also that went on to social media. 00:07:03.819 --> 00:07:08.199 And she kind of got bombarded with a lot of hate 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:12.379 messages and everything like that. So This group 00:07:12.379 --> 00:07:16.740 targeted this person a few months later She was 00:07:16.740 --> 00:07:22.120 found Dead, I believe in a cornfield and her 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:25.879 death was ruled a suicide, which is very very 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:30.620 sad And this is also a spoiler alert. So next 00:07:30.620 --> 00:07:33.939 week we are going to be talking about Riley bitchy 00:07:33.939 --> 00:07:35.920 gains. Wait, that's not our middle name. I'm 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:40.699 sorry Riley gains who instead of training more 00:07:40.889 --> 00:07:44.069 ran her mouth and got fifth, and she will not 00:07:44.069 --> 00:07:47.009 let the world fucking forget about that. But 00:07:47.009 --> 00:07:52.769 we're going to cover that story next week. Yes, 00:07:53.329 --> 00:07:57.709 yes, we are, because, oh, boy, she's she's getting 00:07:57.709 --> 00:07:59.769 some crap and she deserves the crap she's getting. 00:07:59.810 --> 00:08:03.189 And we don't like her. Jay, thank you for doing 00:08:03.189 --> 00:08:05.730 that topic. Thank you for sharing those. Again, 00:08:05.730 --> 00:08:07.910 I think that these are are important. I think 00:08:07.910 --> 00:08:12.439 it's good for us to take time to do these. And 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:19.079 and ultimately, you know. People let people live 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:21.879 their lives. This is the thing I think that bugs 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:26.500 me the most. I and maybe maybe it's. I don't 00:08:26.500 --> 00:08:30.300 understand the rightly gains of the world. I 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:34.539 just don't. And the reason is, is like, why do 00:08:34.539 --> 00:08:40.840 you care this much? Right. Like. Like why do 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:46.899 you care? Okay, like what's the deal? Oh, I get 00:08:46.899 --> 00:08:51.100 it. Okay, I fucking know I I've met people like 00:08:51.100 --> 00:08:54.519 this. I'm I've met them, but I still don't understand 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:57.600 why they care this much She's a fucking sore 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.639 fucking loser. She lost and she's pissed about 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:05.059 it, which So this I don't even this is yeah specifically 00:09:05.059 --> 00:09:06.440 with the right we're gonna cover this next week 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:07.840 So I'm only gonna talk with this for a minute 00:09:08.269 --> 00:09:13.029 She tied for fifth with the trans athlete on 00:09:13.029 --> 00:09:18.330 her team Which means the person who won? The 00:09:18.330 --> 00:09:23.669 people who came in first second third and fourth 00:09:23.669 --> 00:09:32.710 We're all biological women Right all of them 00:09:32.710 --> 00:09:37.590 What do you just alright I'm done with that now 00:09:37.820 --> 00:09:40.320 We'll talk about this next week. Well, we're 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:41.720 going to we'll do that one because it's going 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:47.220 to be funny. Yeah. Leave leave some stuff down 00:09:47.220 --> 00:09:48.059 in the comments below.