please do "trans awareness" celebrations at the other end of the year, around trans day of visibility. we're asking nicely, so that people know where we stand and for anyone who hasn't thought about it. we don't wish to harm our community by starting a fight about something so important; we don't intend to ask again (this year, at least).
trans day of remembrance (the 20th) is a quiet, inward-looking thing for the community. we have often seen it observed with candlelight vigils at which people read the names of the dead.
big corporate spectacles in association with tdor are precisely as inappropriate as having sponsors at a funeral, because that's exactly what's happening
thank you.