Sacramento Escorts: Transgender Day of Remembrance to be observed in Stockton
Sunday is the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, a memorial to transgender homicide victims that was established in 1999. This year is the first year that it will be formally observed in Stockton, by the nascent Stockton Transgender Alliance.
Elena Kelly, the alliance’s director, said life still is very difficult for those who don’t fit into the culture’s binary notion of gender.
“Anyone who doesn’t fit neatly has a very difficult time, especially if they’re male to female,” Kelly said. “It’s OK for my sister to be a tomboy; it wasn’t OK for me to be girly.”
Dressed as a woman, Dibble called himself “Ariana,” just a consonant away from a sister, Adriana, the only member of his family with whom he shared his secret. A registered nurse, Dibble had been arrested a few times on suspicion of prostitution. When he was a teenager he had problems with drugs. His family attributes that now to confusion about his identity.