When I was younger, I was the target for bullying. I went through incidents such as being hung by a kerchief when a cub scout, tossed off a steep hill onto a rocky slope below, and a couple years of being hunted by a football player who was pissed at me because I refused to quietly let him flush my head down a toilet. That said, I got off easy. I was picked on for having been small and an easy target, rather than being a minority.

November 20 was the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It’s an event held in November to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transsexual murdered in 1998. The Day of Remembrance Webcomic Project has grown from a handful of comics to a score of comics, each drawing up a strip in remembrance to those who died… and for those whose names remain unknown.

This year’s remembrances include a real-life incident by Erin Lindsey of Venus Envy while other comics show us glimpses of those who have passed on due to the intolerance of a few in those who were just born different from them. It doesn’t matter what you think of transsexuals. They are still human beings and deserve the same respect and trust you yourself would want to receive. And we need to stand up for them and for one other… for if we turn our backs on others… who will stand by our side when we are the victim?