تأسست RekonekT في موريشيوس عام 2020 على يد كارولين فيتز-جيبون، وأنجيلي كاور بيجون، وديدييه مارسيل، فاليري أوبياه، باتريشيا مادار صائب، إلودي نافيت، إيمانويل كاليس، بيفيش شامرو، وجايل هنرييت-بولي، وتعمل RekonekT بشكل أساسي مع الأشخاص المتحولين جنسياً وغير الثنائيين (TGNC)، مع التركيز بشكل خاص على الشباب المتحولين جنسياً وغير الثنائيين. وتمتد جهودها أيضاً لتشمل المجتمعات المهمشة بشكل عام، والمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان، والمهنيين أو المؤسسات التي ترغب في خلق بيئات أكثر أماناً وشمولاً. تركز RekonekT جهودها على الدعم المجتمعي، والإرشاد النفسي الاجتماعي، وإدارة الأزمات، والأمن المجتمعي، والبحث التشاركي، وبناء القدرات، وإنشاء مساحات شاملة وداعمة للأشخاص المتحولين جنسياً وغير الثنائيين والمجتمعات المهمشة الأخرى في موريشيوس. باختصار، تتمثل دعوة المنظمة الأولية في الرعاية والدعم. تم تسجيل RekonekT في أكتوبر 2021.

تأسست RekonekT في موريشيوس عام 2020 من قبل كارولين فيتز-جيبون، وأنجيلي كاور بيجون، وديدييه مارسيل، فاليري أوبيا، باتريشيا مادار سايب، إيلودي نافيت، إيمانويل كاليس، بافيش شامرو، وغائيل هنرييت-بولي، وتعمل RekonekT بشكل أساسي مع الأشخاص المتحولين جنسياً وغير المطابقين للجندر، مع التركيز بشكل خاص على الأفراد المتحولين جنسياً وغير المطابقين للجندر من الشباب. يمتد عملهم أيضًا إلى المجتمعات المهمشة الأوسع، والمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان، والمهنيين أو المؤسسات التي تسعى إلى بناء بيئات أكثر أمانًا وشمولًا. تركز RekonekT على دعم المجتمع، والمرافقة النفسية الاجتماعية، والاستجابة للأزمات، وسلامة المجتمع، والبحث التشاركي، وتعزيز القدرات، وإنشاء مساحات شاملة ومؤكدة للأشخاص المتحولين جنسياً وغير المطابقين للجندر والمجتمعات المهمشة الأخرى في موريشيوس. باختصار، التركيز الرئيسي للمنظمة هو الرعاية. تم تسجيل RekonekT في أكتوبر 2021.

الرؤية / رؤية

المساهمة في قيام مجتمع يمكن فيه للأشخاص المتحولين جنسياً والمتنوعين جندرياً العيش بكرامة وأمان واستقلالية وتمتعهم بالوصول الكامل إلى حقوقهم، مع الاعتراف بهم كمشاركين بكل ما للكلمة من معنى في الحياة الاجتماعية والثقافية والاقتصادية والسياسية.

للمساهمة في بناء مجتمع يمكن فيه للأشخاص المتحولين جنسياً والمتنوعين جنسياً العيش بكرامة وأمان واستقلالية، مع وصول كامل إلى حقوقهم، وأن يتم الاعتراف بهم كمشاركين كاملين في الحياة الاجتماعية والثقافية والاقتصادية والسياسية.

مهمة

دعم وتعزيز مجتمعات المتحولين جنسياً وغير المتوافقين جنسانياً في موريشيوس من خلال أنظمة الدعم المجتمعي، والدعم النفسي الاجتماعي، والمناهج التشاركية، والتعليم، والمنهجيات اللامركزية التي تركز على التجارب المعيشية والتمكين الجماعي.

لدعم وتعزيز مجتمعات المتحولين جنسياً وغيرهم في موريشيوس من خلال أنظمة دعم مجتمعية، مصاحبة نفسية اجتماعية، مقاربات تشاركية، تعليم ومنهجيات لا استعمارية تركز على التجارب المعيشية والتمكين الجماعي.

أهداف / الأهداف

• تعزيز الأنظمة الداعمة النفسية والاجتماعية للشخصيات المتحولة جنسياً وغير الثنائية؛
• تعزيز مساحات أكثر أماناً وشمولاً للمجتمعات المهمشة؛
• دعم المقاومة وتمكين المجتمعات
• المساهمة في الوعي الاجتماعي والتثقيف المدني؛
• توثيق الحقائق التي تم اختبارها من خلال البحث التشاركي
• تعزيز الوصول إلى الحقوق والخدمات والفرص؛
• المساهمة في بناء الحركات؛
• تعزيز قدرات المهنيين والمؤسسات والجهات الفاعلة المجتمعية.

• تعزيز أنظمة الدعم النفسي والاجتماعي والمجتمعي للأشخاص المتحولين جنسياً وغير المطابقين جنسياً؛
• تعزيز مساحات أكثر أمانًا وتأكيدًا للمجتمعات المهمشة؛
• دعم مقاومة المجتمع وتمكينه؛
• المساهمة في الوعي الاجتماعي والتربية المدنية
• توثيق الواقع المعاش من خلال البحث التشاركي
• دعم الوصول إلى الحقوق والخدمات والفرص
• المساهمة في بناء الحركات
• بناء القدرات لدى المهنيين والمؤسسات والجهات الفاعلة المجتمعية.

مجالات التدخل مجالات التركيز

تشمل أعمال RekonekT ما يلي:

• الدعم النفسي والاجتماعي والدعم المجتمعي
• التدخل في الأزمات والدعم الطارئ للمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان
• الحوارات المجتمعية ومجموعات الدعم؛
• بحث تشاركي حول واقع الأشخاص المتحولين جنسياً وغير الثنائيين في موريشيوس ورودريغيز؛
• ورش عمل بناء القدرات والتوعية
• التربية المدنية والممارسات المناهضة للقمع
• مبادرات الأمن المجتمعي
• مبادرات التمكين الاقتصادي والتنمية المجتمعية (قيد التطوير/البحث عن تمويل حاليا).

كما أنها تنفذ المرحلة الأولى من مبادرتنا "ممارسات مناهضة للقمع في رعاية المجتمعات المهمشة"، والتي بدأت بورش عمل تركز على الموافقة وممارسات الرعاية المجتمعية.

يشمل عمل ريكونكت:

• المرافقة النفسية والاجتماعية والدعم المجتمعي
• الاستجابة للأزمات والدعم الطارئ للمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان؛
• حوارات مجتمعية ومجموعات دعم؛
• بحث تشاركي حول واقع المتحولين جنسياً وغير المطابقين للجنس في موريشيوس ورودريغز؛
• ورش عمل بناء القدرات والتوعية؛
• التربية المدنية والممارسات المناهضة للقمع
• مبادرات السلامة المجتمعية
• مبادرات التمكين الاقتصادي والتنمية المجتمعية (قيد التطوير/التمويل حالياً).

كما يقومون حاليًا بتنفيذ المرحلة الأولى من مبادرتنا "الممارسة المناهضة للقمع في الرعاية مع المجتمعات المهمشة"، والتي بدأت بورش عمل تتمحور حول الممارسات المتعلقة بالموافقة ورعاية المجتمع.

اتصل

directors@rekonekt.org; contact@rekonekt.org
+230 5944 2028
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Fondée à Maurice en 2024 par Hana Telvave et d’autres personnes, EkiT œuvre principalement auprès des personnes transgenres et non binaires (TGNC) à Maurice, tout en collaborant avec la communauté LGBTQIA+ au sens large et ses alliés pour promouvoir l’inclusion et l’égalité. EkiT est une organisation dirigée par des personnes trans qui s’efforce de renforcer les droits, le leadership, la santé et la visibilité des personnes transgenres et non binaires à Maurice. Son action comprend le développement du leadership, le plaidoyer politique, la mobilisation communautaire, la sensibilisation du public, les initiatives de soins d’affirmation de genre, la communication stratégique et l’engagement institutionnel pour promouvoir l’égalité et la dignité. L’organisation a été enregistrée en 2026.

Founded in Mauritius in 2024 by Hana Telvave and others, EkiT primarily works with transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people in Mauritius while collaborating with the broader LGBTQIA+ community and allies to advance inclusion and equality. EkiT is a trans-led organisation working to strengthen the rights, leadership, health, and visibility of transgender and gender non-conforming people in Mauritius. Their work includes leadership development, policy advocacy, community mobilisation, public education, gender-affirming care initiatives, strategic communications, and institutional engagement to advance equality and dignity. The organisation was registered in 2026.

الرؤية / رؤية

La vision à long terme d’EkiT est de contribuer à la création d’un écosystème durable de bienveillance, de transmission du savoir, de dignité et de protection communautaire – un modèle de « village » ancré dans la solidarité, la sécurité, le bien-être collectif et l’entraide. À travers cette vision, EkiT aspire à un monde où les personnes transgenres et de genre divers, ainsi que d’autres communautés marginalisées, vivent dans la dignité, la sécurité, la visibilité, l’égalité et un accès réel aux soins, au leadership et aux opportunités. L’organisation souhaite également réaffirmer et honorer les rôles précoloniaux que de nombreuses personnes de genre divers ont historiquement tenus en tant que conteurs, protecteurs, guérisseurs, gardiens de la culture et guides spirituels au sein de leurs communautés.

The long-term vision of EkiT is to contribute to the creation of a sustainable ecosystem of care, storytelling, dignity, and community protection a “village” model rooted in solidarity, safety, collective wellbeing, and mutual care. Through this vision, EkiT seeks to contribute to a world where transgender and gender-diverse people, alongside other marginalised communities, live with dignity, safety, visibility, equality, and meaningful access to care, leadership, and opportunity. The organisation also aspires to reclaim and honour the pre-colonial roles that many gender-diverse people historically held as storytellers, protectors, healers, cultural custodians, and spiritual bridges within their communities.

مهمة

Construire des systèmes de soins, de plaidoyer, de récits et de changement institutionnel pilotés par la communauté qui renforcent le bien-être, la visibilité, l’autonomie et la protection des personnes transgenres et des communautés marginalisées à Maurice.

To build community-led systems of care, advocacy, storytelling, and institutional change that strengthen the well-being, visibility, autonomy, and protection of transgender and marginalised communities in Mauritius.

أهداف / الأهداف

• Renforcer le leadership transgenre et la pérennité organisationnelle
• Améliorer l’accès à des soins de santé inclusifs et respectueux de l’identité de genre
• Développer un plaidoyer stratégique et un engagement politique
• Changer les discours publics néfastes par le biais de la communication et des médias
• Créer des systèmes de soutien et de solidarité communautaires plus sûrs
• Élaborer des structures de financement durables à long terme

• Strengthen trans-led leadership and organisational sustainability
• Improve access to inclusive and gender-affirming healthcare
• Build strategic advocacy and policy engagement
• Shift harmful public narratives through communications and media
• Create safer systems of community support and solidarity
• Develop long-term sustainable funding structures

مجالات التدخل مجالات التركيز

Le travail d’EkiT est axé sur le développement du leadership des personnes transgenres et non conformes au genre, l’accès aux soins de santé affirmant le genre, le plaidoyer politique et juridique, la mobilisation communautaire, les campagnes de communication et de visibilité, la sensibilisation institutionnelle et le renforcement de la résilience communautaire.

EkiT’s work focuses on transgender and gender non-conforming leadership development, access to gender-affirming healthcare, policy and legal advocacy, community mobilisation, communications and visibility campaigns, institutional sensitisation, and strengthening community resilience.

Campagnes vidéo / Video campaigns

اتصل / اتصل

ekitmauritius@gmail.com
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انستقرام
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Regardez notre entretien avec Hana Telvave, le 10 juillet 2026 / Watch our interview with Hana Telvave, 10 July 2026

Founded on 7 September 2023, Initiative for Youth Health Rights and Education Empowerment (IYHREE) is an unregistered organisation with the goal to improve the quality of life of LGBTQI, specifically trans, intersex and gender non-conforming, youth in northern Nigeria by providing them with the tools they need to make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing, and by advocating for their human rights. The organisation was founded by Mx Cookie, Juju Bee and Kira Earl La Posh. Kira is the current Executive Director.

رؤية

To create an inclusive and supportive environment where young LGBTQI, specifically trans, intersex and gender non-conforming individuals can freely express themselves, access education and healthcare services, and thrive without discrimination or harassment.

مهمة

To educate and empower LGBTQI, specifically trans, intersex and gender non-conforming youth in northern Nigeria by promoting health rights and education and specifically advocating for their equal rights in the society.

Projects

One of IYHREE’s projects is the in-person focus group and survey launched in partnership with ReportOUT. The focus group discussion took place in Northern Nigeria (Kaduna State), with the aim of gathering feedback and insights from these marginalised communities about their access to healthcare services. This collaboration focuses on addressing the healthcare needs of trans, intersex, and nonbinary individuals in Nigeria, with a goal of advocating for better access to quality care for these marginalised communities. Through this partnership, both organisations are working towards promoting inclusivity and equality in healthcare services for all individuals. The focus group discussion provided a platform for members of the trans, intersex, and nonbinary communities to share their stories, voice their concerns, and discuss potential solutions to improve access to healthcare services.

The online survey conducted was designed to collect information on the experiences and challenges faced by trans, intersex, and nonbinary individuals when seeking healthcare services. It covers a range of topics, including discrimination, lack of access to gender-affirming care, and barriers to receiving quality healthcare services.

The data collected from the survey and focus group discussion will be analysed and used to inform advocacy efforts aimed at addressing the systemic barriers that prevent trans, intersex, and nonbinary individuals from accessing quality healthcare services in Northern Nigeria. This information will also be used to develop recommendations for policymakers, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders to improve healthcare access and outcomes for these communities.

According to Kira, IYHREE’s Executive Director,

“The partnership between IYHREE and ReportOUT represents a significant step towards advancing the rights and well-being of the trans, intersex, and nonbinary communities in Northern Nigeria. By listening to their voices and experiences, we can work towards creating a more inclusive and equitable healthcare system that meets the needs of all individuals, regardless of their gender identity.”

اتصل

بريد إلكتروني: johnhyacinth44@gmail.com / iyhree0@gmail.com
+2349060933842
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انستقرام

Founded in Kenya in 2023 by Sheila Joy, Julie Troca, Brenda and other queer activists, Alliance Trans Shield works with vulnerable trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, gender diverse and queer individuals, with a particular focus on asylum seekers and refugees. The organisation’s work extends to intersex people and LGBTQIA+ communities with projects specifically addressing trans and intersex needs, centering those most at risk of marginalisation, displacement, and violence. Alliance Trans Shield’s main work is survivor‑led advocacy, digital empowerment, and psychosocial support. They provide safe spaces, amplify voices through storytelling, and build solidarity networks for trans and queer refugees and asylum seekers. They also engage in regional movement‑building, resisting digital violence, and advancing sexual and reproductive health rights. The organisation has not been able to register yet due to transphobic government policies.

رؤية

A continent where trans, non‑binary, gender diverse, and intersex people live with dignity, visibility, and justice free from violence and discrimination, and empowered to shape narratives that drive transformative change.

مهمة

To harness digital power and survivor leadership in advocating for and empowering trans, non‑binary, gender diverse, and queer refugees and asylum seekers. Through campaigns, storytelling, and community driven initiatives, the organisation transforms digital spaces into platforms of protection, solidarity, and liberation.

Goals/Objectives

• Provide safe housing, psychosocial support, and livelihood opportunities for queer and trans refugees.
• Build solidarity networks across Africa and the Diaspora.
• Resist digital violence and promote safer online participation.
• Strengthen movement building by connecting organisations and activists regionally and internationally.
• Advance sexual and reproductive health rights for trans and gender diverse communities.

مجالات التركيز

• Digital advocacy and empowerment: Using online platforms to amplify survivor voices and resist digital violence.
• Protection and safe housing: Supporting displaced trans and queer refugees with shelter and psychosocial care.
• Movement building and solidarity: Strengthening networks across East Africa and the Diaspora.
• Sexual and reproductive health advocacy: Promoting access to inclusive health services for trans and gender diverse communities.
• Storytelling and documentation: Preserving histories and lived experiences through blogs, workshops, and collaborative archives.
• Intersectional advocacy: Addressing overlapping issues of displacement, disability, gender, and sexuality in our projects.

اتصل

بريد إلكتروني: alliancetransshield@gmail.com
+254748092583
LinkedIn
Substack

Founded in Nigeria in March 2022, Supporting Trans, Intersex, and Gender Non-Conforming People Initiative (STAG) was initially a peer-support, community organising and safe space network for trans, intersex, gender diverse and gender non-conforming people from around 2018/2019. STAG Initiative works with womxn, trans, intersex, gender-diverse, gender non-
conforming people, and other underserved LGBTQI+ community members in Nigeria. The network was begun by Kelsey Brookes, Claudia, and Gloria Henshaw (Juniper), and 16 other trans, intersex, gender diverse and LGBQ+ community members. The organisation’s work particularly centres people who experience multiple layers of exclusion, including trans women, trans men, intersex persons, gender-diverse persons, LGBTQI+ youth, survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), people living with HIV, sex workers, displaced persons, and community members facing homelessness, family rejection, violence, health exclusion, and legal insecurity.

STAG Initiative works at the intersection of advocacy, empowerment, safety, health justice, and human rights for womxn, trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming people in Nigeria. Their main work includes crisis response, safe housing support, gender-based violence response, legal and psychosocial referrals, SRHR and HIV-related advocacy, community documentation, leadership development, movement building, and policy advocacy. They also create safe spaces where community members can access care, information, support, and collective power. STAG was born out of a deep collective frustration with the violence and discrimination faced by the communities mentioned above, and their work is rooted in ensuring that no one is left behind or erased. STAG advocates for justice, provides safe spaces and services, supports GBV survivors, strengthens community-led crisis response, empowers marginalised communities, and challenges the systems that produce violence, exclusion, and discrimination. STAG was registered in 2025.

رؤية

A society where everyone, including trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming people, can thrive and have full access to comprehensive healthcare, education, and empowerment, when they want it and how they want it. A future where no one has to hide who they are, explain their existence, or negotiate their dignity before accessing care, safety, education, or opportunity.

Co-founder, Kelsey Brookes says,

“As a visionary leader, I strive to create inclusive spaces and drive systemic change to ensure that every individual, regardless of gender identity, can thrive and be treated with dignity and respect.”

Source: https://www.vitalvoices.org/fellow/kingsley-kalu/

مهمة

To create an inclusive society where anyone, regardless of gender identity, can live freely and safely.

Goals/Objectives

• Promote the safety, dignity, and human rights of trans, intersex, gender-diverse, gender non- conforming people, and other underserved LGBTQI+ communities in Nigeria.
• Provide crisis response, safe housing, psychosocial support, legal referrals, and survivor-centred care for community members facing violence, homelessness, family rejection, or insecurity.
• Advance access to inclusive healthcare, SRHR services, HIV prevention, treatment literacy, and gender-affirming information and support.
• Strengthen community leadership, especially among trans, intersex, and gender-diverse young people.
• Document community experiences, rights violations, movement histories, and evidence for advocacy and policy change.
• Build solidarity across generations so that older and younger trans, intersex, and gender-diverse activists can share knowledge, context, experience, strategies, and skills.
• Advocate for laws, policies, systems, and services that respect bodily autonomy, inclusion, safety, and justice.

مجالات التركيز

• Crisis Response and Safe Housing — STAG supports trans, intersex, gender-diverse, gender non-conforming, and LGBTQI+ community members experiencing violence, homelessness, family rejection, threats, forced displacement, or urgent safety needs. This includes safe housing, emergency relocation support, case management, and referral coordination.
• Gender-Based Violence and Legal Protection — STAG provides survivor-centred support for community members affected by gender-based violence, intimate partner violence, blackmail, family violence, public harassment, and rights violations. The organisation also supports referrals to legal, psychosocial, and protection services.
• SRHR, HIV, and Health Justice — STAG advocates for access to inclusive healthcare, HIV services, SRHR information, treatment literacy, mental health support, and gender-affirming care information. Their work responds to the
  exclusion of trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people from mainstream health systems.
• Trans and Intersex Movement Building — STAG creates safe spaces for leadership development, peer learning, advocacy training, and community mobilisation. The organisation is particularly interested in strengthening intergenerational learning within the trans and intersex movement, because of the widening gap between older and younger activists. This gap is leading to the loss of knowledge, political context, lived experience, advocacy skills, and movement memory.
• Documentation, Research, and Data-Driven Advocacy — STAG documents lived realities, human rights violations, health access barriers, and community histories. The organisation uses evidence to support advocacy, policy engagement, donor engagement, and movement learning.
• Climate Justice and Social Protection — STAG integrates gender and climate justice by recognising how crisis, flooding, displacement, poverty, and environmental insecurity affect trans, intersex, gender-diverse, and other
  marginalised communities.
• Economic Empowerment and Education — STAG supports access to skills, education, empowerment opportunities, and leadership pathways for underserved community members.

اتصل

بريد إلكتروني: info@staginitiative.org / tgnpn.ng@gmail.com
+2348137760417
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TikTok
YouTube

Founded on 3 February 2022, Hope Trans Initiative is non-profit advocacy organisation founded by trans individuals who had the passion and desire to support intersex, trans and gender non-conforming (ITGNC) people to gain access to affirming care and equal opportunities. The organisation was founded as a support group by Faith Blessing, Beryl Achieng, Brian Muchere, Vicky Masinde and Rinah Olukusi due to lack of an inclusive organising within Kenya for rural and peri-urban areas along the coast of Kenya in Mombasa County that could provide safe spaces, gender-affirming services and advocate for ending the injustices that this segment of the community face. The organisation is registered, but not as an LGBTQIA+, trans or intersex organisation due to government regulations.

Country Context

The support group was formed to support ITGNC persons that were vulnerable to lack of safety and security, and further exploitation based on the myths around homosexuality and its relation to gender identity. According to Hope Trans Initiative, homosexuals and gender variant people in Kenya, particularly in rural and peri-urban areas,

“are largely depicted as a taboo, curse, devil worshippers and repugnant to the culture of our society with majority being denied their right to an identity, suffer stigma and discrimination and sexual violation and social marginalization. This has kept them from socializing and being active members of the community thus hindering the development of self-confidence, and in-turn leading to social anxiety and depression.

Specifically, within healthcare setting, medical professionals, directly and indirectly, discriminate against ITGNC persons by miss-gendering individuals, breaking confidentiality at facilities, and asking intrusive questions. On the other hand, affirming health care for intersex, transgender and gender nonconforming persons is unavailable while at the same time, sex reassignment and HIV programming rarely considers the situation of ITGNC persons. Additionally, ITGNC persons within coastal region face wide spread of violation spanning from arbitrary arrest and detention, humiliating body checks and frisking to determine one’s biological sex, false accusation of intent to impersonate of false pretense as our physical anatomy might not match our gender expression and identity and by virtue of having bodies that often fall outside of the culturally accepted norms.”

رؤية

A resilient and vibrant society committed to equality, diversity and inclusion irrespective of sexual and gender orientation.

مهمة

To foster a sense of belonging to eliminate all forms of inequalities through integrated programmes, with the emphasis being on gender affirming, establishing a safe space, providing training and advocacy, awareness raising and sensitisation and, psycho-social support and stakeholder’s engagement to enhance a society committed to equity, diversity and inclusion for holistic empowerment and social change.

Goals/Objectives

• To provide holistic, effective and reliable care and support for ITGNC persons within the Kenyan coastal region, spanning from safe spaces, psycho-social support, and ITGNC-friendly counselling services.
• To advocate for the human rights of ITGNC people and change the attitudes of the society towards sexual and gender minorities to end stigma, discrimination and all forms of violence and social marginalisation against sexual and gender minorities that deny these communities an opportunity to live dignified lives to their full potential.
• To galvanise a sustainable, self-sufficient and resilient movement of ITGNC people to promote access to gender-affirming healthcare services.
• To step in the gap of other similar organisations that overlook rural and per-urban coastal regions and to advocate for the rights and equal treatment of ITGNC
  persons who have had lived experience of deeply rooted stigma, rights violation and social exclusion in order to promote the overall well-being through psychosocial and socio-economic empowerment.
• To provide a platform for ITGNC persons to assert their power in numbers energy and imagination to transform society to be a beacon of hope for all its people and to build a better society.

Programmatic Areas

• Advocacy: Facilitate advocacy campaigns to advocate for the fundamental needs of ITGNC persons and to send an unambiguous message to the communities they serve that all humans, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation, deserve the same respect, protection, and realisation of their rights while challenging existing power struggles to improve care, demand resources and influence policies wherever they are needed as we remain open to equality, diversity and at the same time safeguarding confidentiality and lobbying for institutional policy changes so that they remain resolute in advancing justice, often in the face of ongoing violence, inequity, and exclusion.
• Psycho-social support: Provide access to competent psycho-social support for ITGNC persons within the Kenyan coastal region through counselling, formation of mentorship and support groups that are specific to the needs of ITGNC persons, support provision of access to psychiatric care
  and rehabilitation, and facilitating a holistic approach to mental and broader individual well-being that enables a healthy environment for an individual to manage normal stressors of life and identify positive coping mechanisms.
• Awareness building and sensitisation: To increase awareness and understanding of ITGNC people and share knowledge to empower the community and to help service providers, professionals, families and the public to better understand ITGNC needs.
• Safety and security: To reduce violence against ITGNC within coastal region through community-led safety initiatives focused on improving conditions for people most affected by systemic violence and discrimination within ITGNC communities, based on their sexual and gender orientation/expression. On the other hand, we work to increase ITGNC affirming protections that promote full inclusion and equal opportunity while increasing social inclusion and public support for the ITGNC community.
• Organisational system strengthening: aimed at building a strong, dynamic, resilient institution that is effective and efficient in delivering its mandate.

اتصل

بريد إلكتروني: hopetransinitiative@gmail.com
فيسبوك

The TransHuman Organization was founded in Kenya in 2022 by Nekesa Mukamba. It is a gender non-conforming-led organisation committed to advancing social and economic justice for rural-urban transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons within Eldoret and Uasin Gishu in Kenya. Rooted in lived experience and community power, TransHuman Organization works to dismantle systemic barriers, challenge discrimination, and create pathways to equity through advocacy, education, and direct support. At the heart of their work is a deep commitment to centering the voices and leadership of those most impacted by injustice. The organisation believes that true liberation is only possible when transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons are empowered to lead, shape policy, and access the resources they need to live full, autonomous lives. Through community organising, coalition building, and strategic advocacy, the organisation strives to create lasting change that uplifts our communities and reimagines a more just and inclusive future for all. They have applied for registration and are still awaiting the outcome.

رؤية

A just, inclusive, and equitable society where transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons live with dignity, safety, opportunity, and full participation in all aspects of social, economic, and political life.

مهمة

To advance the rights, well-being, and empowerment of rural and urban transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons in Eldoret and across Kenya by challenging discrimination, strengthening community leadership, promoting social and economic justice, and providing advocacy, education, and direct support that enables individuals and communities to thrive.

Project values and focus

The project has 3 values and focus:

• Dignity and Human Rights – Every person deserves respect, autonomy, and equal protection under the law.
• Community Leadership – Those most affected by injustice should lead the solutions.
• Equity and Inclusion – Working to remove barriers and create opportunities for all gender-diverse people.
• Social Justice – Challenging systems of discrimination and inequality.
• Solidarity and Collaboration – Lasting change is built through partnerships and collective action.
• Integrity and Accountability – Upholding transparency, trust, and responsible stewardship.
• Empowerment – Strengtheing individual and community capacity to advocate for their rights and well-being.

Project Resource Hub

The Transhuman Project Resource Hub has 4 categories:

• Social and cultural hub
• Medical hub
• Economic and sustainability hub
• Legal and political protection hub

The resources are available in English, Swahili and French.

اتصل

موقع ويب
+254702168652
بريد إلكتروني: transhumanproject2022@gmail.com
فيسبوك
انستقرام
LinkedIn
Twitter

Founded in Namibia in March 2021 by Miss Mavis Dash, Gigi Has Arrived and Mo’Nick Critique, Drag Night Namibia is an LGBTQI+ arts and community organisation that uses drag, performance, music, fashion, and ballroom culture as tools for visibility, empowerment, advocacy, and social inclusion. The organisation creates safer and affirming spaces for queer creatives and community members through live events, workshops, artistic development programmes, and regional collaborations. The organisation works with queers, allies and cisgender heterosexual Namibians and World Citizens, and the movable middle.

Its core work includes:

• Producing drag shows, ballroom/vogue events, and queer-centred cultural programming;
• Supporting emerging LGBTQI+ performers, artists, DJs, designers, and entertainers through mentorship and performance opportunities;
• Using artistic activism to challenge discrimination and increase LGBTQI+ visibility in Namibia and across Southern Africa;
• Facilitating workshops and skills-development initiatives in areas such as performance, makeup artistry, fashion, MCing, and creative production;
• Building regional and international partnerships that strengthen queer artistic exchange and transnational solidarity;
• Creating community-driven platforms that promote dignity, inclusion, mental wellbeing, and creative expression for LGBTQI+ individuals.

Through projects such as Drag & Vogue Beyond Borders, Drag Night Namibia has also expanded its work into regional advocacy, international cultural exchange, and cross-border collaboration, positioning drag and ballroom culture as important tools for storytelling, resistance, and community-building in Africa.

The organisation is registered in Namibia and is currently led by Rodelio Lewis aka Miss Mavis Dash, Founder and Co-CEO, and Lize Ehlers aka DJ Rise Elders Co-CEO & Technical Director Drag Night Namibia.

رؤية

The vision of Drag Night Namibia is to build a vibrant, inclusive, and empowered society where LGBTQI+ individuals, especially queer artists and performers, are free to express themselves safely, authentically, and creatively without fear of discrimination or exclusion. The organisation envisions a Namibia, and broader African creative landscape where drag, ballroom, and queer artistic expression are recognised as powerful forms of culture, storytelling, activism, and community healing. Through artistic excellence, visibility, and regional collaboration, Drag Night Namibia aims to create sustainable platforms that uplift LGBTQI+ voices, celebrate diversity, and inspire social change across communities and borders.

مهمة

The mission of Drag Night Namibia is to create safe, inclusive, and empowering platforms for LGBTQI+ individuals through drag, ballroom, music, fashion, and performance arts, while advancing visibility, dignity, community wellbeing, and artistic freedom in Namibia and beyond. A central part of the organisation’s mission is to expand economic access and inclusion for queer performers and creatives who have historically faced discrimination, unemployment, exclusion, and limited professional opportunities. Drag Night Namibia works to ensure that artists are not only celebrated culturally, but are also able to access paid performance opportunities, professional development, mentorship, regional collaborations, and sustainable creative income streams.

Through events, workshops, partnerships, productions, and advocacy initiatives, the organisation seeks to:

• Develop and promote LGBTQI+ talent;
• Create pathways toward financial empowerment within the creative industry;
• Support entrepreneurship and artistic careers for queer creatives;
• Build sustainable platforms where performers are compensated fairly and professionally;
• Strengthen representation and ownership of queer African narratives within arts and culture spaces.

By combining artistic activism with economic empowerment, Drag Night Namibia aims to contribute toward a more inclusive creative economy where LGBTQI+ performers can thrive both socially and financially.

Main objectives

The goals and objectives of Drag Night Namibia are centred around artistic empowerment, LGBTQI+ visibility, community development, and economic inclusion through creative expression and performance culture.

Key goals and objectives include:

1. To create safe and inclusive spaces
   Establish affirming environments where LGBTQI+ individuals can freely express themselves through drag, ballroom, music, fashion, and performance arts without fear of discrimination or exclusion.
2. To increase LGBTQI+ visibility and representation
   Promote positive and authentic representation of queer identities in Namibia and across Africa through public performances, cultural programming, media engagement, and artistic activism.
3. To support artistic and professional development
   Provide mentorship, training, workshops, and performance opportunities that strengthen the creative, technical, and leadership skills of emerging and established queer artists.
4. To advance economic empowerment for performers
   Create pathways for LGBTQI+ creatives to access paid opportunities, sustainable income streams, entrepreneurship, and professional growth within the arts and entertainment industries.
5. To strengthen drag and ballroom culture in Namibia
   Preserve, develop, and celebrate drag and ballroom as important forms of African queer cultural expression, storytelling, and community-building.
6. To build regional and international partnerships
   Foster collaborations with organisations, festivals, activists, artists, and cultural institutions that support cross-border solidarity, exchange, and advocacy.
7. To use art as a tool for advocacy and social change
   Challenge stigma, discrimination, gender-based exclusion, and harmful social narratives through creative expression, dialogue, and community engagement.
8. To empower LGBTQI+ youth and marginalised communities
   Support young queer people and vulnerable creatives by creating opportunities for participation, leadership, confidence-building, and belonging within creative spaces.
9. To contribute toward a more inclusive creative industry
   Advocate for greater access, recognition, and fair treatment of LGBTQI+ artists within Namibia’s cultural, entertainment, and creative sectors.
10. To create sustainable community-driven programming
    Develop long-term artistic and community initiatives that continue to uplift queer voices, strengthen networks, and promote collective wellbeing across Namibia and the region.

مجالات التركيز

The focus and thematic areas of Drag Night Namibia centre on LGBTQI+ visibility, artistic activism, creative empowerment, community wellbeing, and economic inclusion through drag, ballroom, music, fashion, and performance culture.

1. Drag and Performance Arts Development

Drag Night Namibia creates platforms for drag artists, performers, DJs, vocalists, and entertainers to showcase and develop their talents through live productions, competitions, showcases, and mentorship initiatives. These programmes strengthen professional opportunities for LGBTQI+ creatives while increasing queer representation within Namibia’s arts sector.

2. Ballroom and Vogue Culture

The organisation actively supports the growth of ballroom and vogue culture in Namibia by creating learning spaces, performance opportunities, workshops, and regional exchange programmes connected to the African ballroom community. This work promotes self-expression, confidence-building, identity affirmation, and community solidarity among queer youth and performers.

3. LGBTQI+ Visibility and Advocacy

Through artistic activism, public engagement, storytelling, and cultural programming, Drag Night Namibia challenges discrimination and promotes greater social inclusion for LGBTQI+ individuals. Performances and public events are used as tools for dialogue, awareness-building, and human rights advocacy.

4. Economic Empowerment and Creative Inclusion

A major focus area is creating economic access for LGBTQI+ performers and creatives who often face barriers to employment and financial stability. The organisation provides paid performance opportunities, skills development, mentorship, production experience, and access to regional and international artistic networks.

5. Youth Development and Skills Training

Drag Night Namibia facilitates workshops and educational programmes focused on MCing, makeup artistry, lip-sync performance, fashion design, stagecraft, music, branding, and creative entrepreneurship. These initiatives help emerging artists develop both artistic and professional skills.

6. Regional and International Cultural Exchange

Through projects such as Drag & Vogue Beyond Borders, the organisation builds partnerships with regional and international LGBTQI+ organisations, festivals, artists, and advocacy spaces. These collaborations strengthen transnational solidarity and increase visibility for Namibian queer creatives globally.

Trans and gender-diverse inclusion

Drag Night Namibia is deeply committed to creating affirming and empowering spaces for trans and gender-diverse performers within Namibia’s LGBTQI+ community. Trans artists continue to play a central role in the organisation’s programming, leadership, and visibility efforts.

Notable trans and gender-diverse performers within the Drag Night Namibia community include Coco, Miss Diamond and Queen Cleopatra. These artists have contributed significantly to the growth of drag and ballroom culture in Namibia through performance, mentorship, representation, and community engagement. Their participation within Drag Night Namibia initiatives has helped increase visibility for trans performers while challenging stigma and exclusion faced by gender-diverse individuals in both artistic and public spaces.

The organisation continues to prioritise inclusive participation, safer creative spaces, leadership opportunities, and professional development pathways for trans performers as part of its broader commitment to dignity, representation, and equality within the arts and entertainment industry.

اتصل

dragnightnam@gmail.com
فيسبوك
انستقرام

Watch our interview with Drag Night Namibia founders, Rodelio Lewis aka Miss Mavis Dash, Founder and Co-CEO, and Lize Ehlers aka DJ Rise Elders, 12 June

Drag Night Namibia in the media

Founded on 19 April 2019, Entrepreneur Empowerment and Advocacy (EEA-Health) seeks to empower the trans, intersex and gender non-conforming (TIGNC) refugee communities of Kenya. It provides crucial support to asylum seekers fleeing Uganda’s oppressive anti-LGBTQ+ laws. EEA-Health aims to create a safe and empowering environment for those who have faced persecution, helping them navigate the numerous challenges they encounter upon arriving in Kenya. The organisation is registered, but not as an LGBTIQ+ organisation due to safety issues. EEA-HEALTH is a member of the Grassroots Justice Network.

رؤية

To empower trans, intersex and gender non-conforming (TIGNC) refugees and asylum seekers by championing their rights through legal, social, and economic initiatives. To create a safe and inclusive environment where every individual, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation, can thrive and reach their full potential.

مهمة

To advocate for equal rights and create sustainable welfare for TIGNC refugees and asylum seekers in Kenya. To empower TIGNC individuals through legal reforms, policy advocacy, and economic empowerment initiatives to help them achieve better livelihoods and live with dignity and respect.

Thematic Focus Areas

Advocating for ITGNC rights

EEA-Health is dedicated to promoting the rights of TIGNC refugees and asylum seekers. Through legal advocacy, they fight for law and policy reforms that recognise and protect the rights of sexual minorities. The organisation collaborates with queer-friendly lawyers to offer pro-bono legal services and consultations, ensuring that TIGNC individuals have access to justice and legal protection.

Legal protection for refugees and asylum seekers

The organisation provides comprehensive legal and paralegal services to TIGNC refugees and asylum seekers, addressing issues such as asylum claims, discrimination, and human rights violations. Support includes offering security and safety training, raising awareness against homophobia and transphobia, and supporting victims of abuse through consultation and legal intervention.

Gender-based violence (GBV) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) awareness

EEA-Health actively advocates against GBV and IPV within the local and TIGNC communities. They conduct campaigns and provide education to raise awareness about these issues, offering support and resources to victims. Their programmes aim to create safer environments and promote respectful and non-violent relationships.

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights awareness

In collaboration with Amplify Change and the Trans Refugee Empowerment Network Africa (TRENA), the organisation runs awareness programmes on sexual and reproductive health rights. This 18-month initiative (2024—2025) focuses on educating TIGNC individuals about their health rights, providing essential health services, and ensuring access to reproductive healthcare.

Psychosocial support for people who use drugs

EEA-Health offers psychosocial support for TIGNC individuals who use drugs, including trans sex workers, those on hormone therapy, and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Supported by UHAI-EASHRI in 2022-2023, this programme provides counseling, health services, and support networks to help improve the overall wellbeing of these individuals.

Climate change advocacy

Recognising the impact of climate change on LGBT+ refugee rights, EEA-Health advocates for climate justice and its implications on vulnerable communities. They engage in campaigns and educational programmes to highlight how climate change disproportionately affects LGBT+ refugees, aiming to develop adaptive strategies and resilience within these communities.

Community support and inclusion

EEA-Health believes in creating a welcoming and supportive environment for all. They offer a range of services and programs that empower TIGNC refugees and asylum seekers to achieve their full potential. The organisation’s shelter provides a safe space for up to 10 refugees, while their advocacy and support services ensure that every individual feels valued and respected. By addressing these thematic areas and leveraging their strengths, EEA-Health continues to champion for the rights of TIGNC individuals, advocating for a just and inclusive society where everyone can live with dignity and respect.

مجالات العمل

• Provide safe housing and emergency support: To offer secure shelter for ITGNC asylum seekers fleeing persecution and ensure access to essential services for displaced individuals.
• Enhance economic empowerment and sustainability: Developing livelihood programs through vocational training to catalyse financial independence through skills development and entrepreneurship.
• Strengthen legal and documentation support: To ensure asylum seekers obtain legal protection and documentation through legal aid and advocacy for those facing discrimination or violence.
• Promote health and well-being: To improve access to sexual and reproductive health services, including HIV/AIDS care and mental health support through campaigns and referral systems.
• Advance advocacy and protection for ITGNC refugees: Raising awareness on LGBTQ+ refugee rights and Gender-Based Violence through advocacy and policy engagement to enhance movement building.

اتصل

موقع ويب
+254757615931 / +254792747788
Email: refugees@empowermentadvocacy.org
فيسبوك

Founded in 2019, Upendo Rights Advocacy Initiative – Malaba (URAI), is non-governmental organisation that serves the rural Ugandan community of LBQ women, intersex, gender non-conforming and other gender diverse persons. URAI was founded against the background of no services for LGBTI persons in Malaba and the perception that the LGBTI community is urban based. Yet LGBTI, people live in all contexts, including small towns and rural areas. LGBTI people in rural contexts experience unique and diverse challenges, with distinctive human rights, livelihood and healthcare needs that receive little attention at the national level, even with the considerable work that has already been done on LGBTI human rights, livelihoods and health situations in urban areas. Upendo was registered limited by guarantee in November 2021.

مهمة

To represent, mobilise and empower communities of rural LBQ women, intersex, gender non-conforming and other gender diverse individuals through advocacy, inclusiveness, creating solidarity, and promoting leadership. URAI does this work through wellness and livelihood programmes, and advocacy initiatives to engage different stakeholders on the issues that these rural communities face.

الأهداف

• Advocate for policy changes to protect rural LBQ women, intersex, gender non-conforming and other gender diverse individuals.
• Mobilise rural LGBTI communities through workshops, campaigns, and alliances. 
• Empower LGBTI individuals with skills training and resources for self-advocacy. 
• Foster inclusiveness and solidarity within rural communities. 
• Promote leadership among LGBTI individuals in rural areas. ⁠
• Address unique challenges through research and targeted programmes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve services and support for rural LGBTI communities.

اتصل

بريد إلكتروني: amollocarol59@gmail.com
انستقرام
X (Twitter)

Trans Empowerment Initiative (TEI) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization based in East Africa, founded in 2019 to advance the rights, dignity and well-being of transmasculine and gender non-conforming folks. The group began its work as a small group of trans and gender non-conforming survivors of violence, displacement and systemic exclusion. From mutual aid circles to regional advocacy, TEI has evolved into a transformative force for empowerment, supporting trans men, transmasculine people, and gender non-conforming folks. The group facilitates access to gender-affirming healthcare, emergency housing, leadership development, economic skills training and community-led creative expression.

Registered as both a Community-Based Organisation (CBO) and a nonprofit in Kenya, TEI provides safety, affirmation and empowerment for those who have long been marginalised and facing layered forms of discrimination and precarity. Grounded in a survivor-centered, trauma-informed and intersectional framework, TEI champions gender diversity through a radical feminist and queer liberation lens. The organisation’s programs support health, housing, economic empowerment and human rights advocacy, ensuring that our community’s lived realities shape every decision TEI makes. TEI works to build a world where every transmasculine and gender non-conforming person can heal, lead, create and thrive.

رؤية

A just and inclusive East Africa where every transmasculine and gender non-conforming person lives freely, thrives economically and expresses their identities and potential without fear or limitation.

مهمة

To build resilient and affirming communities that advance the well-being and economic freedom of transmasculine and gender non-conforming people by creating inclusive spaces for care, creativity and sustainable empowerment.

Core Values

• Intersectionality: TEI recognises how gender identity interacts with refugee status, class, race, ability and other lived realities, shaping the group’s holistic approach.
• Radical feminism and queer liberation: TEI challenges oppressive systems and champion bodily autonomy, justice and the liberation of all gender non-conforming people.
• Safety and protection: TEI creates safe physical, emotional and political spaces for transmasculine and gender non-conforming communities.
• Solidarity and mutual support: TEI nurtures collective care ensuring no one faces hardship alone.
• Accountability and transparency: TEI commmits to integrity, openness and trust within its community and partnerships.
• Healing and resilience: The group uplifts pathways to wellness, acknowledging the strength within its communities.

Projects

“A Space for Us”

A cross-cultural photography and storytelling project supported by the British Council. It features portraits and personal narratives of transmasculine individuals from Kenya and the UK, exploring themes of identity, visibility, and belonging. Through exhibitions, guided conversations, and a print publication, the project fosters global dialogue, solidarity, and artistic expression.

Maschart — Advocacy Through Storytelling

Maschart is the visual and narrative advocacy arm of TEI, using photography, film, and storytelling to document the lives, challenges, and resilience of transmasculine individuals in East Africa. The project challenges: stereotypes and invisibility by centring on authentic voices and lived experiences, fostering empathy, understanding, and long-term social change.

Food Drive and Emergency Relief

TEI’s food drive project responds to urgent needs within our community particularly during periods of displacement, crisis, or economic hardship. The group distributes essential food packages and hygiene supplies to trans and gender diverse individuals facing hunger, ensuring no one is left behind.

Mental Health and Wellness Support Groups

At the heart of TEI is the belief that healing is communal. Their mental health and wellness program offers peer led support groups, trauma informed care, and resource sharing sessions designed specifically for transmasculine individuals. These safe spaces foster connection, emotional support, and access to mental health professionals where possible.

Binder Drive

TEI’s Binder Drive initiative provides safe and affirming chest binders to transmasculine individuals across East Africa who cannot afford or access them. Through partnerships with global supporters and safe local distribution points, the group hosted three successful drives focused on dignity, health, and body autonomy. Each edition has reached dozens of individuals with life-affirming support.

Crochet and Knitting Program

This creative livelihood project provides participants with training in crochet and knitting, enabling them to produce marketable handmade items such as scarves, bags, and clothing. The initiative not only supports skill building and economic empowerment but also offers a calming, therapeutic space for expression, connection, and healing through art.

Poultry and Sustainable Farming

TEI’s poultry and farming initiative empowers transmasculine individuals with hands-on agricultural skills to support sustainable living and income generation. By creating small-scale farming systems including poultry rearing, vegetable gardening, and composting, this project strengthens food security while promoting economic independence for marginalised community members.

اتصل

موقع ويب
+254 111 393806
بريد إلكتروني: transempowermentinitiativeke@gmail.com
فيسبوك
انستقرام
TikTok

Founded on 20 January 2018 by Salma Alaoui, Adam Cherifi and Zeyne Oulmakki, Dynamique Trans (Trans Dynamics) works primarily with trans people in Morocco, including non-binary, gender non-conforming, and intersex individuals — especially those from underrepresented communities. This includes trans migrants and refugees living in Morocco, who are among the most affected by systemic marginalisation, legal precariousness, and social violence.

رؤية

Dynamique Trans envisions a world where all trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and intersex individuals — especially in Morocco and across the Global South — can live in safety, dignity, and freedom. The organisation believes in full bodily autonomy, gender self-determination, and the collective right to thrive beyond systemic oppression, colonial legacies, and gender-based violence. Their vision is rooted in intersectional feminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist politics. Dynamique Trans is committed to building non-mixed, self-organised spaces led by the most marginalised. They draw strength from our histories of resistance and honour the struggles of those who came before us.

مهمة

The organisation’s mission is to affirm the right of every person to define their identity, access care without stigma or discrimination, and participate in building liberatory futures. Dynamique Trans exists to strengthen the self-organised power, safety, and wellbeing of trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and intersex individuals in Morocco. They work to build autonomous, non-mixed spaces by and for those most affected by gender-based oppression and systemic injustice. Through peer-led accompaniment, community care, legal and psychological support, knowledge production, and grassroots advocacy, they aim to resist marginalisation and reclaim collective agency.

الأهداف

• To create safe, non-mixed community spaces for trans, non-binary, and intersex individuals to organise, heal, and thrive.
• To provide accessible and stigma-free legal, psychological, and gender-affirming support services tailored to the needs of trans communities in Morocco.
• To reduce health and safety risks for trans people through harm reduction practices and peer-led accompaniment.
• To promote collective wellbeing and mental health within trans and intersex communities through care-centred, trauma-informed approaches.
• To strengthen community knowledge and resistance through popular education, training sessions, and critical knowledge production led by those directly impacted.
• To engage in grassroots advocacy against legal, institutional, and societal transphobia, and to support campaigns for justice, dignity, and systemic change.

مجالات التركيز

• Gender-affirming healthcare and hormone journey accompaniment, with a focus on harm reduction and peer-led support.
• Providing peer-based support, follow-up, and harm reduction strategies around gender-affirming care and hormone journeys.
• Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including safe and informed access to trans-inclusive SRH services.
• Legal support and documentation assistance for trans people facing discrimination, administrative barriers, or violence.
• Psychological and mental health support tailored to trans and intersex realities.
• Community care and collective wellbeing, including healing spaces and emotional solidarity.
• Popular education and political training through workshops, community gatherings, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Research and critical knowledge production centering trans and intersex voices from Morocco.
• Grassroots advocacy and campaigning for gender justice, bodily autonomy, and systemic change.

اتصل

موقع ويب
WhatsApp (no calls; messages only): +212 704 834 000
بريد إلكتروني: contact@dynamiquetrans.org 
فيسبوك
انستقرام

In March 2017, trans sex worker activist, Leigh Davids from سيستاز هود, made the now famous “Trans Violent Exclusion” speech at the 3rd Trans Health, Advocacy and Research Conference, hosted by ديناميكس الجنسانية (GDX)  and Iranti.

Under the Conference theme, “Decolonising and Depathologising Transgender Identities”, Leigh delivered a powerful critique, which was published afterwards.

The speech highlighted the different income and social classes and levels of access within trans organisations and among trans women and activists. She spoke about living on the street, and she challenged the audience to think about what it means being a trans woman sex worker and how this Conference (or any other) is at all meaningful for trans women sex workers. In the speech Leigh mentioned that trans women sex workers do not live to be older than 40 years.

Leigh passed away two weeks before her 40th birthday, on 27 February 2019. Read the tributes to Leigh after her passing.

Transcript of snippets from a speech Leigh made in 2018 at the Kewpie Heritage Day

“Thank you for coming to the place where we live. We do not often invite people here. Like anybody else we enjoy our privacy and as you might imagine we don’t have a lot of that here.
This is what NOT PRIVACY looks like.
This is what NOT HOME looks like.
This is what parents threaten their children with if they don’t do their homework.
This is what Capitalism imprints in your mind to make you work harder, to spend your money,
to make you work for the man.
This is……. THE STREETS.

The human mind and will is amazing. Even when it is hungry. Even when it is in pain all the time. Even when it’s spirit has been attacked all it’s life. It will find and make community, under the worst stress. The SistaazHood and our allies have been living on this spot for decades. Over there is our lounge and our kitchen. Over here is where we sleep together.
This is home for us.
Well it was until the part of apartheid that never died came and evicted us last week, evicted us yet again from District 6.
The first time was because of philosophy called apartheid. Ooh and we hate that word hey? All of us! Black white poor rich.
Say it with all the hate in yourself, all the disgust, feel appalled!
Wasnt it terrible? It was so terrible that once upon a time a government, a city could throw poor black people out of their homes, demolish them, send the people to the outskirts of the city. What terrible prejudice, human rights violation. That one could lose your home because of the colour of your skin, your culture, how you were born. Shocking hey?
But let me tell you that Big Brother Apartheid might be dead but his father is still with us. We never killed his father. His father’s name is the CLASS SYSTEM and his father’s job is GENTRIFICATION. In the name of gentrification the father of apartheid is still chasing poor black people from District Six.

And so? How many of you are working class? How many of you are middle class? Do you occupy the street to walk to work or do you occupy the street when you go for a jog or do you drive in it? If you answer yes to any of those you are more or less safe from the father of apartheid and his job – gentrification. But me and my sisters. He is coming for us. He came for us last week on his first round through Woodstock. He chased us around the corner. Next week he will take us to a concentration camp in a place called Wolwehoek. What is this? It sounds like a TV drama. But it is not. It is my life. It is our life. And maybe you wonder why I can sleep in the street, how can sleep on a piece of property I don’t own, how I can complain when I am evicted from a space I don’t own. Are you wondering that? Are you wondering if I am a nuisance to
people here? Do I make a noise? Do I use drugs, sell sex, urinate on the street? And isn;t it time for me to get my act together, find a job?
First of all – I HAVE A JOB. Sex work is work. You made it illegal.
Second of all. I don’t live here by accident. I am not poor by accident. I am not without a home by accident.

There are places in the world where democracy does it’s job, nobody sleeps on tar and cardboard there. There are places in the world where Capitalism works, does it’s job – people don’t sleep under plastic on cement there. There are places in
the world where dynamic communities with all the classes are designed by city planners. People from every class is together in one neighbourhood, diversity makes them thrive! Believe it! Those neighbourhoods work! And the most vulnerable? There are shelters for them…..right there in the same neighbourhood where one guy jogs on the street, the other one walks on it to work and the one with mental health challenges sits on a bench under a beautiful tree, protected, maybe even healing. There are places like that in the world.

And do you know how they happened? They did not happen because poor people got their act together. They did not happen because poor people got themselves jobs. They did not happen because poor people got organised. They happened because people with power started doing their job. They built a society for everybody with their power. The middle class agreed to it. Insisted on it. That’s how it happened.

So please leave us now and go do you job. Use your power. Get us off the street without evicting us. Gentrify with us in our heart and mind, not like we are trash that needs to be taken out…..of town.”

Trans Support Organization (TSO) was formed as a community-based organisation (CBO) in 2017 by a group of three transgender, intersex, and gender-non-conforming (ITGNC) individuals from Western Kenya who met during the Human Rights and Advocacy Programme by ASTRAEA Lesbian Foundation for Justice through the NYARWEK Network (Nyanza Rift Valley and Western Kenya Network). TSO was founded with a focus on human rights and sexual reproductive health and rights to respond to the needs of ITGNC individuals, as well as to create visibility, increase opportunities for and enhance the well-being of these individuals in rural areas of Western Kenya. TSO was registered in November 2019.

رؤية

A vibrant and radically inclusive society that supports intersecting identities, where all community members can thrive as their authentic selves, liberated from stigma, violence and oppression.

“Above all TSO consists of trans folks brought together by collective experiences and a deep desire to change the landscape so that ITGNC persons joining us may lead more dignified lives.  We address scars of discrimination and first-hand experience of what it means to be invisible in our community and country. Our bodies bear testimonies to the worst that can happen to a trans person including being raped, locked in jails, beaten to a pulp by a mob and mocked everywhere. We exist to provide hope that all can be well and that being trans is not an abnormality. TSO is committed to embodying the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

مجالات التركيز

• صحة
• Advocacy
• Livelihood
• Institutional strengthening

اتصل

موقع ويب
Email: transcbo@gmail.com
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In 2016, the Southern African Trans Forum, with the aid of Accountability International, undertook a situational analysis of the barriers faced by trans diverse people in Africa in accessing healthcare. The specific focus of the analysis was the intersections between legal and policy frameworks that create these barriers for people in 5 Southern African countries: Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The report, ‘Southern Africa Trans Diverse Situational Analysis: Accountability to Reduce Barriers to Accessing Health-Care | 2016’, took place during 2016 and was published in 2017.

Survey Results

Barriers faced by trans diverse Southern Africans (Source: page 5 of the Report)

• Lacking identity documentation aligned to their preferred gender, trans-diverse persons experience extreme discrimination at school, at church, and in other social settings at the hands of their peers who are ignorant of and uncomfortable with their gender identity;
• Facing active discrimination from family and church leaders – who are likely to sexually molest many trans diverse people – their experience finally drives trans diverse people out of school before completion of their studies, and also out of home (another key site of sexual abuse);
• Trans diverse people are at a permanent disadvantage against former peers in seeking work in that we are underage, underqualified, can’t progress further in their studies, and cannot secure basic documents such as a driver’s license (a significant minority of those few that manage to secure work are likely to experience sexual harassment at work, or to lose their jobs as a result of their gender identity) so most of them wind up unemployed;
• Lack of education, employment, plus official and societal discrimination against the trans diverse usually means we cannot access housing and wind up on the street, which drives them into underground subsistence activities including petty criminality and especially sex-work in order to survive;
• That demi-monde existence in turn makes them even more vulnerable to abuse by members of the public and the police (including arbitrary assault, arrest, and detention), to substance abuse and self-harming behaviour including suicide attempts, and to disease including but not limited to STIs, HIV/Aids, TB and viral hepatitis;
• so ill and in desperate need of medical attention and psychological assistance (not to mention hard-to get hormones and almost unreachable transitional surgery), the trans diverse turn to the healthcare system – but encounter yet more ignorance, prejudice and even abuse.

Lived experiences of trans diverse Southern Africans

The Survey documented the following results in a period of 12 months relating to the lived experiences of trans diverse Southern Africans:

• 34% (1 in 3) experienced sexual violence, including attempted or completed rape.
• Of these, only 19% (1 in 5) received the necessary medical attention.
• 22% experienced attempted or completed rape by an intimate partner.
• Of these, only 14% reported intimate partner sexual violence.
• 18% reported physical abuse by a religious or faith healer.
• Only 11% of these reported the sexual abuse by a religious or faith healer.
• 53% experienced violence.
• Of these only 30% received the medical attention they required.
• Only 24% of these experiences of violence were reported.
• 53% avoided healthcare because of stigmatisation by staff.
• Only 45% taught their healthcare provider about trans diverse issues.

Key findings of the situational analysis

The summary of the Report is as follows:

“The trans diverse communities in the five countries studied (Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland) represent a remarkable constellation of communities characterised by extreme vulnerability because of their intersectional location as among their countries’ most excluded – unemployed or criminalised, susceptible to disease and despair, targeted for sexual assault and hate crimes, and cut off from education, housing, health-care, sports and social activities, and many the basic benefits of citizenship and amenities of society.

And yet trans diverse people are possessed of remarkable strengths in terms of their survival skills and tenacity in overtly hostile environments were because of having to either face social erasure or are actively persecuted as a group that “should not” exist.

The power of trans diverse agency should not be underestimated, as two remarkable examples will make clear: a) although many members of the trans* community who answered this survey have experienced prejudice in, including expulsion from, their childhood homes, 38% of those surveyed started their own families; and b) although many trans diverse persons experienced prejudice in, including expulsion from, school, fully 18% of those surveyed completed tertiary education – higher than the national average in at least three of the countries surveyed.

However, a total policy vacuum regarding the existence, nature and needs of the trans diverse community mars all the countries studied. This invisibility not only allows for blanket ignorance to reign among officialdom and the broader populace, on the one hand disabling trans persons’ ability to access ordinary (and specialised) health-care and legal remedies, while on the other hand enabling casually vicious discrimination up to and including violent hate crimes and police home invasions (the latter experience restricted to Zambia). Even the protections that the trans diverse supposedly possess under constitutional equality/human rights legislation appears to fall away in most real-life circumstances.” Source: https://accountability.international/projects/trans-diverse-africans-situational-analysis-2016-2019/

Read the full Report.

Founded in 2016 by Pinty Dludlu, TransSwati is a non-profit organisation providing services to the trans and gender non-conforming community. Officially registered in May 2018, TransSwati was born due to the lack of trans community representation in programmatic activities in the development sector in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). A young feminist group, TransSwati works towards fighting social stigma faced by the trans and gender non-conforming community.

رؤية

To create a future where all transgender and gender non-conforming individuals have equitable access to public services, are free from stigmatisation and feel safe and secure in a Swazi society.

مهمة

To improve the livelihood of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals across Eswatini through intersectional approach to advocacy and programmatic activities that target health, law enforcement, education, economic empowerment, culture, religion and wider social attitudes.

مجالات العمل

The organisation is dedicated to supporting transgender people and advocating for their rights. TransSwati believes that everyone deserves to live their life authentically and without fear of discrimination or violence. The organisation is dedicated to providing resources and support to transgender individuals and their families, as well as to educate the public about transgender issues. Specific areas of work include:

• Healthcare: TransSwati provides resources and support for transgender individuals and their families.
• Education: TransSwati provides education and raises awareness about transgender issues in eSwatini.
• Counselling: TransSwati provides support and counselling for people exploring their gender identities.

اتصل

موقع ويب
Email: transswati10@gmail.com
+268 7653 0039 / +268 7810 9892
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انستقرام

Our interview with Pinty Dludlu

We interviewed Pinty in February 2025:

Founded in 2015 by Rikki Nathanson, Trans* Research, Education, Advocacy & Training (TREAT) was the first trans-led, and gender-diverse focused organisation in Zimbabwe. TREAT’s mission is to inform and transform attitudes and address injustice and inequalities faced by the trans diverse population in Zimbabwe. After being arrested under charges such as criminal nuisance for using the “wrong” bathrooms in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Rikki Nathanson realised the huge gap in the general public’s ignorance and miseducation about gender, transgender and gender diverse people. Rikki relocated to the US, claiming asylum. Sam Ndlovu has been the Executive Director of TREAT since 2019.

رؤية

TREAT is an initiative that seeks to address the rights issues in the education, advocacy and training about and to, the basic violations of the human rights of the trans* diverse and gender non-conforming population of Zimbabwe. It envisions a Zimbabwe where everyone is free to express their gender within, across and beyond the male-female binary without fear of discrimination, stigma or victimisation.

مهمة

To inform and transform attitudes and address injustice and inequalities faced by Trans diverse population in Zimbabwe.

مجالات التركيز

• Health: including the Sexual Reproductive health rights (SRHR), Hormone Replacement therapy (HRT) and psycho social support.
• Justice: the protection by the law around issues such as abuse and violence in all forms.
• Socio-economic: including among other things, discrimination faced in schools, workplaces, medical and other facilities, families and the general population at large.

اتصل

موقع ويب
Email: treatorg22@gmail.com
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Watch our Interview with Rikki Nathanson

We interviewed Rikki on the 11th of April 2025 about her life and activism.

According to TTI’s founder, Mwamba Nyanda,

“Throughout the years we have managed to serve, reach out and impact our constituency through different strategies, e.g.
• Through capacity building, where we provide knowledge and tools for Trans persons to develop their Human rights work.
• Movement building, working g intersectional with other organisation like women’s organisation to share feminist experiences and strategy to win has a collective.
• Use of Creative Arts, to better tell our own stories, heal has queer person and shape our own future. This helps us to dive in our creative side and share it with the world around us e.g. Music that sends messages and heals peoples heart around us.
• Sports, this tool created liberation for young diverse women seeking equality and freedom of expression, it helped trans persons in times of anti-rights movements, and escape from violent community.
• All this provided us with strategies to go about our Advocacy on human right Issues.
• Working intersectional and in the regional level has amplify our work and kept us on the map and face of the community, with challenges along the way, shaped our formation and demanded our work to strive harder for the Trans community.”

رؤية

TTI envisions a transformed Tanzanian society where Young ITGNC persons have access to good health, education, equal opportunities in all sectors, enjoy gender equality and do not face any form of violence and discrimination.

مهمة

TTI is a group of feminist, trans who aim to address the multiple and intersecting oppressions faced by its beneficiaries through:

• Raising awareness on trans and women’s issues,
• Empowering young women and trans youth on leadership.
• Promoting gender justice and equality.
• Collaborating with government, law enforcement officers, policymakers, Civil Society Organizations and other Community Based Organisations to address health issues, drive social economic stability for achievement of sustainable development goals.
• Providing knowledge and a foundation for empathy and understanding of the needs of TTI’s constituency.

Goal

To ensure that ITGNC (intersex, trans and gender non-conforming) persons understand their human rights and how to fight for them for survival and for peaceful life without discrimination and that they are empowered and enabled to realize sustainable livelihood and are living in the country a peaceful life without discrimination and humiliation.

اتصل

Email: artirism@gmail.com
+255 695 880 453
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انستقرام

The Malindi Desire Initiative was born from the question, “How far are you willing to go for a community you love?” In answering that question, MDI supports trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) individuals who often face threats, violence and health issues. MDI is committed to providing services to these communities and promoting equality through educating the wider community about the issues that trans and gender non-conforming people in Kenya face in order to create a positive change within the community.

رؤية

To see lives of most TGNC people improve to a high level of economic, social and psychological aspects of life standards.

مهمة

To promote economic, social and psychological aspects of lives to the highest level of standard possible considering all promotion prototypes while initialising all available resources to improve lives of most at risk persons.

Goals

• Providing a safe and welcoming space for LGBTQ individuals to connect and support each other.
• Advocating for LGBTQ rights and visibility in our community and beyond.
• Offering resources and support to those in need, including counselling, healthcare referrals, and emergency assistance.
• Providing educational programming and events to raise awareness about LGBTQ issues and promote acceptance and understanding.

Services

1. STI and HIV/AIDS Screening.
2. Peer Education: Research, group therapy and social science surveys to address the community’s response to TGNC individuals and help members cope with these issues.
3. Relief Programme, including medical education, STI and HIV care, psychotherapy and disease prevention resources like condoms and HIV self-tests.

Further, or more in-depth services include:

1. Health awareness and prevention (HIV/AIDS).
2. Mental and emotional support through the HIV/AIDS testing process.
3. Community engagement and trust to reduce stigma and create a supportive network for those seeking HIV/AIDS testing and counselling.
4. Community resilience: By addressing immediate needs and providing support during challenging times, this programme fosters a sense of unity and shared responsibility, contributing to the community’s ability to overcome obstacles together.
5. Knowledge dissemination: Training peers to disseminate information about HIV/AIDS testing and counselling.
6. Skills development: Peer education programmes to equip individuals within the transgender community with valuable skills, such as communication and advocacy.

اتصل

موقع ويب
+254726069670
Email 1: malindidesirein@gmail.com / Email 2: org@desireini.co.ke / Email 3: malindidesirein@yahoo.com
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Trans and Intersex People (TIP) for Human Rights in Nigeria (THRIN), now Dynamic Initiative for Healthcare & Human Rights (DIHHR), was formed in 2013. DIHHR is a trans/intersex-led organisation advocating for the rights of trans and intersex persons and gender non-conforming individuals in Nigeria. The organisation was registered on 6 December 2018.

THRIN was set up to programme for trans and intersex people and other gender non-conforming individuals who have been identified as a marginalised and underserved group in terms of provision of healthcare and other services in Nigeria. THRIN started in 2013 as a Facebook online social forum known as TransNigeria which was formed by Mx. Emmanuella (Ella) David-ette. The Facebook page changed its name to Dynamic Initiative for Healthcare & Human Rights (DIHHR) in January 2019.

The group started with a membership of thirty-three (33) persons and currently has a membership of 205 individuals spread beyond Nigeria to other countries of Africa. The network started based on the recognition that there are trans and intersex persons needing support and human rights interventions ranging from gender affirmation and trauma support/coping mechanisms, among others. The Facebook group evolved into an organisation in October 2015.

رؤية

To be the top leading trans and intersex supporting organisation in Nigeria, West Africa and then globally.

مهمة

To promote the respect of the rights of every human being irrespective of their sexual orientation and gender identity and expression and that includes their health and wellbeing.

مجالات العمل

• Human rights: Legal representation, paralegal services, documentation and monitoring, advocacy, psychosocial services, and the provision of safety and security measures.
• Capacity building: Trainings, meetings, focused group discussions, safety and security information.

اتصل

موقع ويب
بريد إلكتروني: info@dihhr.org
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انستقرام

Our interview with Mx Emmanuella David-ette

On 30 May 2025, we conducted an interview with DIHHR’s Mx Emmanuella David-ette.