Sites of trans memories

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How we remember the past is as important to us as the lives we live in the moment. Who we choose to memorialise, lionise, hate, despise, mourn, and ultimately celebrate comes down to a wide array of factors. For trans people often it is who was the first to do something, first to achieve something, or a tragic death. Indeed, to be trans in the world is to be reflections of how those people are remembered, as often we are trans alone in our…