Members of GenderBloc﻿, a queer student group at the University of Cincinnati the focuses on transgender and genderqueer activism, placed flags on McMicken Commons to represent transgender victims of hate crimes.

Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day to honor transgender people who were killed because of their transgender identity. The event began in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder in 1998 kicked off the Remembering Our Dead web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil.