At Central Park in Fernandina Beach, the community gathered to honor transgender people who lost their lives to violence.

Vigils and other events are being held to draw attention to transgender people who have lost their lives due to violence in the past year.

The Fernandina Beach City Commission will issue a proclamation for Transgender Day of Remembrance at 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.

An LGBTQ advocacy group says at least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the United States in 2022.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – JASMYN, Jacksonville’s LGBTQ Youth Center, will host a week of events for the first time virtually to honor the lives of transgender people lost to violence. Trans folx are resilient! JASMYN serves trans people as well as the rest of the rainbow of LGBTQ youth in Northeast Florida. Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual national observance on November 20th that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. JASMYN is leading a movement to rename the day Transgender Day of Resilience, honoring the trans community’s ability to find their way forward against tremendous odds especially from aggression based on appearance.

ATLANTA - Starting today, members of the transgender community will recognize Transgender Awareness Week. It always runs in the week leading up to November 20, the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Across the country, communities hold different events and activities to help people recognize Transgender Awareness Week, said Alex Schmider, associate director of transgender representation at GLAAD. "The transgender community is a group of people who are living in every community, in every neighborhood, working in every industry, contributing positively to society," he said. There are so many ways you can support the transgender community this week.