I'm on the Poetry Foundation "Poem of the Day" email list

[conuly]

and often they have a little note in the email explaining why that day's poem was chosen.

The note for today's poem states that today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It occurs to me that they might have to field some ridiculous complaint emails, because transphobes gonna transphobe, so I'm now trying to word a non-complaint email.

So far I've got "Thank you for mentioning the Transgender Day of Remembrance and its significance in today's email" and I might stop there.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I think that's really all you need to say. It's nice to have it brought up!

[conuly]

Be nicer if we didn't need a transgender day of remembrance at all.

[wpadmirer]

As it would be nice if we didn't need a Memorial Day.

[adafrog]

Definitely fine to stop there.

[flamingsword]

You can say, “on behalf of myself and my grateful trans readers”, because I am not your only transgender readership. And we all like it when people make an effort.

[conuly]

:)

That's why I posted here, so anybody else could send in an email of support if they wanted!

I decided to basically just stop where I said in the post. I did consider mentioning that I have many transgender and nonbinary friends and at least one relative, but decided against it. I shouldn't need to have a special reason for basic human decency, and I like to think that actually I'd support transgender rights no matter what.

[flamingsword]

Oh, okay. I figured the link would have been to their contact information if that were the purpose, but I did find their info and send them a quick thank you.

[conuly]

I didn't think of that, lol!

Actually, iirc I think I posted before I bothered searching for their contact page.