Fairness Sponsors Transgender Week of Awareness Events Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial Service Nov. 20, 7PM

LOUISVILLE, KY—The Fairness Campaign sponsors Louisville's Transgender Week of Awareness, a series of events surrounding the 12th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial service held November 20, 7 p.m. at Metropolitan Community Church to commemorate the more than 320 known transgender individuals who have lost their lives to anti-trans violence since 1998. Eleven names have been added to that list in 2010 alone. The Day of Remembrance is organized by the Women's Center of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

The Transgender Week of Awareness, organized by Louisville's transgender support group, Sienna, includes a number of events held at the University of Louisville to promote education on transgender issues and raise awareness of the disproportionately high level of discrimination and violence trans-identified individuals face. Among the events will be a showing of the popular movie Soldier's Girl, focusing on the true-life story of Barry Winchell, a Fort Campbell, Kentucky army private who was murdered for his relationship with a transgender woman. Calpernia Addams, Winchell's former girlfriend, appeared at the University of Louisville last year as the keynote speaker of the campus's popular Pride Week.

On Thursday, November 18, University of Louisville students will fill the entrance to the campus Student Activities Center with chalked body outlines to represent trans individuals who have been murdered.

TRANSGENDER WEEK OF AWARENESS EVENTS

Soldier's Girl Movie Showing, Wednesday, November 17, 7 p.m., University of Louisville Chao Auditorium, Free

"TransAwareness in Action," Performance Art (chalk lines of bodies lost to anti-trans violence), Thursday, November 18, Noon, University of Louisville Student Activities Center Entrance

Trans Health Discussion, Thursday, November 18, 5:30 p.m., University of Louisville Campus Health Services

"Night of the Legends," Performances and Speeches Honoring Trans Heroes, Friday, November 19, 7 p.m., University of Louisville Student Activities Center Multipurpose Room

Transgender Day of Remembrance Candlelight Memorial Service, Saturday, November 20, 7 p.m., Metropolitan Community Church, 1432 Highland Avenue