Transgender Awareness Week is observed each year from November 13-19.  Each year, organizations and people around the country participate to help raise the visibility about transgender people and address the issues that members of this community face.  This week culminates on November 20, Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), which honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.  2021 marks the most deadly year recorded with at least 45 transgender people, most of them Black or Latinx, being killed.

LLMC supports raising awareness about transgender issues as part of its successful track record of collaborative and merit-worthy diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.  Examples of LLMC’s commitment to assisting with DEI community support are the recent “Global Equity & Social Justice” webinar as well as offering its Hawaii Kingdom materials, Indigenous Law Portal, and RIGHTS!, at no cost open access to all, on the LLMC homepage www.llmc-digital.org.

A simple search for “transgender” in LLMC Digital yields hundreds of relevant documents.  One such item of significance is Dwidjodarmo, Kasus Vivian Rubianti dipandang dari sudut pertumbuhan pengertian hukum perdata di Indonesia, 1974 (LLMC 50159), a civil law examination of a case that was brought by Vivian Rubianti Iskandar.  She made a request of the Jakarta District Court to be able to change her birth gender assignment in the civil record from male to female.  The court agreed (7 November 1973).  This is the first such decision in Indonesia, not a country known for its liberalism.  She had both a Catholic theologian and an Imam testify in her favor.  She was later married in the Catholic Church in Indonesia.  Cf. Wikipedia.

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