Vandals Deface Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial at University Of Texas at Dallas

[TexasTowelie]

For the last several years, LGBT student groups at the University of Texas at Dallas have regularly painted the school’s “spirit rock” (above) to mark upcoming events.

This year, LGBT students at UTD painted the rock in the colors of the Transgender Pride flag to mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20. In a beautiful tribute on the LGBT-friendly campus, they also planted flags in front of the rock representing each trans person murdered since 2012 (below).

But on Monday, someone vandalized the rock, scrawling “WEIRD” in spray-paint over “TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE.”

“To whomever vandalized the TDOR memorial today: hope you feel proud of yourself,” Rainbow Guard at UTD wrote on Facebook. “Takes a real courageous person to anonymously insult a group of people who’ve been killed as a result of the bigotry you displayed.”

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/12/vandals-deface-transgender-day-remembrance-memorial-university-texas-dallas/

[Gothmog]

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