A memorial honoring Transgender Day of Remembrance on Boston Common was “deliberately taken down” this week, and LGBTQ advocates are calling for the incident to be investigated as a hate crime.

The Queer Neighborhood Council, a nonprofit dedicated to LGBTQ advocacy, issued a statement in an Instagram post Thursday. The group condemned the “hateful act of vandalism” against the Trans Flag Memorial, which was installed legally with a permit from the city.

“This act is not simple vandalism; it is a hate crime that directly echoes the very violence and prejudice that TDOR was established to condemn,” the group said in its statement. “The removal of this public, permitted memorial is a brutal reminder that the hate which spurs anti-trans violence is alive and active in our City and our comm

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