Whereas Transgender Day of Remembrance 2020 honors the memory of the transgender lives tragically lost in acts of antitransgender violence between October 1, 2019, and September 30, 2020; Whereas the United States is currently experiencing an epidemic of violence against transgender people; Whereas Transgender Day of Remembrance was created following the 1998 murder of Rita Hester, a transgender woman of color, whose murder has yet to be solved; Whereas the following year on November 20, 1999, Gwendolyn Ann Smith created the first Transgender Day of Remembrance in honor of Rita Hester and other transgender people whose lives were lost due to violence; Whereas 2020 marks one of the deadliest years on record for hate violence against transgender Americans including undocumented transgender immigrants; Whereas at least 37 transgender or gender nonconforming people were violently killed in 2020; Whereas at least 350 transgender or gender nonconforming people have been murdered worldwide in 2020 according to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project; Whereas violence against transgender Americans disproportionately targets transgender women of color; Whereas many incidences of violence against transgender individuals are unreported or misreported; Whereas the COVID–19 health pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on transgender Americans; Whereas transgender Americans face barriers to health care, such as lack of health insurance, stigma and discrimination, and higher rates of unemployment; Whereas transgender people disproportionately suffer from higher rates of homelessness, with reports suggesting as many as one-third of transgender people and one-half of transgender people who are Black, Middle Eastern, multiracial, or undocumented have experienced homelessness; Whereas almost half of all transgender people in the United States will attempt suicide at one point in their lifetime, a rate that is eight times higher than the rest of the United States population