Transgender Awareness Week & Transgender Day of Remembrance

Each year between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help increase understanding about transgender people and the issues members of the community face. Trans Awareness Week takes place the week before Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20.

At a time when transgender people have become targets of extreme political discrimination and violence, it's important that we learn the facts about who trans people are, become educated about the realities trans people face everyday.

Updated November 18, 2025
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Growing up trans : in our own words
Herriot, Lindsay
Paper Book
What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience through childhood, family and daily life, school, their bodies and mental...
https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/what-we-do/events/upcoming/index.php
Dynamic, hands-on learning; research that makes a vital impact; and discovery and innovation in Canada\'s most extraordinary academic environment provide an Edge that can\'t be found anywhere else.
https://egale.ca/egale-in-action/transweek2025/
Every March 31st, the trans community and allies come together to observe Trans Day Of Visibility (TDOV)
Gender: your guide : the gender-friendly primer on what to know, what to say, and what to do in the new gender culture
Airton, Lee
Paper Book
Be a part of the ever-evolving conversation around gender and discover how to navigate gender diversity in today's families, communities, and workplaces in this updated edition that is "an invaluable resource for both new and veteran allies" (Library Journal, starred review).
Welcome to St. Hell : my trans teen misadventure
Hancox, Lewis
Paper Book
A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the same time entirely its own. Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will...
Escape from St. Hell: a Graphic Novel
Hancox, Lewis
Paper Book
In this sequel to the Indie bestseller WELCOME TO ST. HELL, Lewis Hancox tells the hilarious, inspiring story of coming into his own as a trans man For Lew, figuring out he was a guy and wanted to live life as a guy was the end of our journey... and the start of a whole other journey....
Becoming who we are : real stories about growing up trans
Lisel, Sammy
Paper Book
Becoming who you are is a journey, and all journeys start somewhere.

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