Dear people,


today we are standing here together to memorize of all people whose lives have been victimized because of transphobic, dragphobic or interphobic violence, all people who were murdered worldwide because of their sex, supposedly “gender non typical behavior” or physical speciality in relation to their sex and gender.

This year we are counting 1374 people officially, this number is the biggest number ever and the claim that anything would have changed noticable or the situation of people described as transpeople, drags, inter or wrong assigned people would have become acceptable until now and prejudices and hostility against us would have become less in a signigicant way, this claim is most lately put into doubt when I read out this number of murdered people.

There are thousands of excuses and lies in worldwide powerpolitics, mainstream-media and also amongst us to ignore, relativise or euphemize the violence, exclusion and prejudices against us or to claim that it would fall from the sky, be gods will or natural, but as we see, this social and public lookaway has its effects. It does not only cost our energy, nerves, a big part of our autonomy and our possibility to act in public in a non anxious and self-evident way, it also costs an unnumerable number of human lives.

Today I do not only want to memorialize of all people murdered because of blindness and hate and who are listed on the trans murder monitoring list or make people found groups like “stop trans genocide” because of that, I also want to refer on all the people who did not see any other possibility than to kill themselves because of structural violence, exclusion and the destruction of their social and economical basics.

For one example, In May of this year, the case of 32 year old teacher Lucy Meadows became public. Lucy Meadow was officially mobbed and bullied by Richard Littleton by slander articles in the Daily Mail until she did not see any escape than to kill herself. Her only deed that caused Littleton to chase and convict her was to be born with a penis.

Lucy is not even listed on this report. But you need not to be mobbed and bullied by a public institution or medium to fall into despair, be attacked or loose your work and your hope.

There is also a high number of structures, laws, orders and people which are fighting against us, oppressing us or do as if it would be impossible or wrong to give us equal rights or just all of our human rights, to tread us as normal men, normal women, normal transgenders, genderqueers or any else that we just are and without to put etiquettes on us like “gender identity disorder”, “born as a woman”, “unnormal”, “pervers” or “sexual free gift”

Now there will be a musical performance by Zustand D. that shall express the sadness, anger and frustration about this memorial. Afterwards I will read out the names of all murdered people and ask you for memorial. Thank you.


Today I will read out the names of all these people who were victimised because of transphobic, dragphobic or interphobic murder and reported during october 2012 until october 2013, this is not the whole number, it is supposedly only a little rate of them all, but with this we want also memorize all other ones who died before, without beeing reported or because of similiar reasons like structural violence.

Before I will read out the names of all murdered and reported persons of this year and ask you to memorial, I like to remember that we all have the same fate and that we therefor are a community. We are all suffering structural and often also direct violence because of our bodies, our sexes, genders, outfits or similar things.

It is claimed that we would be ill, unnormal or that we would want to be different and all this maybe since we can imagine.
Sure, we will not have the same opinion how to define sex in general, maybe most of us do not want to be categorized into one group and that there will be stated differences between us and other people that our sex is not accepted because of our bodies or that any sex or gender isn´t accepted officially, but I think that it is very important that we notice that we are all sharing this problem of social discrimination because ot laws, orders, definitions and other manmade forms of repression.

We should encourage each other and show, that everyone of us is a human beeing that feels, thinks, makes mistakes and is something special and because of that exactly as worthful as any other person is. We should stop to fight each other, try to silence each other or think that it would help against the outward violence if we try to take away each other´s right to be what we either are or want to be. Nobody deseves to be excluded, mocked at or be disrespected and unaccepted and if yet a big part in society, the whole power politics, mosz conservatives, heteronormatives and many states deny to show us respect, acceptance and support or only under conditions which are unhuman, we shouldn´t take an example by this but to support each other, listen to each other and learn by each other. You can understand the meaning of tolerance and respect, if you listen deep inside yourself.

Thank you.