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Home » Press Releases » Reps. Clancy, Ratcliff: Transgender Parent and Non-Binary Advocacy Caucus honors transgender community on Trans Remembrance Day
(MADISON) – Transgender Day of Remembrance is an annual observance, begun in 1999, as a vigil to honor Rita Hester, a transgender woman killed in 1998. On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, Co-Chair Representative Melissa Ratcliff (D-Cottage Grove), released the following statement: “Today, we honor the memory of transgender people whose lives have been cut short due to anti-trans violence and b...