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QSA to show ‘Transamerica’ for Transgender Day 2009
The Advocate
The Queer Straight Alliance will observe Transgender Day of Remembrance on Thursday with a guest speaker and a film.
The film “Transamerica” will be shown in the College Center at 3 p.m. “Transamerica” is about a male-to-female transgender named Bree, who is about to get her final operation that will finally make her a woman. She receives a phone call telling her she has a son from an encounter years ago when she was a man and instead of telling her son Toby the truth she plans to leave him at his stepfather’s on their way to Los Angeles.
There will also be a guest speaker from the transgender community will speak about the transgender movement in the College Center from noon to 1 p.m.
This day is set aside to remember those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. QSA is hosting this event in an attempt to bring back the event back to MHCC campus after an extended absence.
Heather Nichelle-Peres, president of QSA, said the event is “to educate students about the transgender movement.”
Transgender Day of Remembrance started after Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was living in the Boston area, was murdered in November 1998.
After that, Gwendolyn Ann Smith and others formed what they called “Remembering Our Dead” and started a vigil in San Francisco in 1999.
Friday, Nov. 20, is the anniversary day of the Eleventh International Transgender Day of Remembrance, that serves as a way for transgender communities and allies to raise awareness about the threat of violence faced by gender-variant people as well as the persistence of prejudice felt by the transgender community.
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Comments
Epscially when the surgery alone costs easily thirty thousand dollars alone.
And when you have a society that sees us a crazy wierdos, thus having a good stable job is extremeley rare.
And having a career, well I have yet at thirty years of age to meet a Trans Woman with a carreer.
So I a disagree Bree didnt "finally" become a woman.
She always was.
Its just now she made her appearance more fem.