{"id":2250,"date":"2015-08-01T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2025-03-26T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:35:03","slug":"trans-wellness-project-founded-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/trans-wellness-project-founded-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2015 \u2014 Trans Wellness Project Founded, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2015 \u2014 Trans Wellness Project Founded, South Africa<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Protea Psychosocial Support Project for Transgender People (PPSTP)<\/em> was officially registered in August 2015. It would change its name to the Trans Wellness Project (TWP) in 2016 during its first strategic planning session, which included board and community members. Formed by former <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/july-2005-gender-dynamix-gdx-founded-south-africa\/\">Gender DynamiX (GDX)<\/a><\/strong><\/em> staff member, Whitney Quanita Booysen, TWP works with trans and gender diverse issues in the rural and remote areas of South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"973\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/TWP-logo-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3425\" style=\"width:373px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/TWP-logo-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/TWP-logo-1-300x285.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/TWP-logo-1-768x730.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trans Wellness Project envisions a South Africa where the needs and challenges of trans and gender diverse people in rural and remote areas are included in programming, research and policies and procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To take a holistic approach in the health and wellness of trans and gender diverse people in the rural areas of South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Trans-Wellness-Project.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Trans-Wellness-Project.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Trans-Wellness-Project-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Trans-Wellness-Project-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Trans-Wellness-Project-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objectives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putting energy into rural and remote areas of South Africa and focusing on trans and gender diverse people in a holistic way, focusing on: Research, Access to hormones and surgeries, HIV\/AIDS and TB Management, Health and Productivity Management, Wellness Management, Partnership Development and Financially Viability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Services include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Access to hormones and surgeries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HIV\/AIDS and TB Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Health and Productivity Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wellness Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Partnership Development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Financially Viability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organisational Direction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twp.org.za\/\">Website<\/a><br>Email: info@twp.org.za<br>+27 73 636 7470<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/transwellnesproject\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2015 \u2014 Trans Wellness Project Founded, South Africa Protea Psychosocial Support Project for Transgender People (PPSTP) was officially registered in August 2015. It would change its name to the Trans Wellness Project (TWP) in 2016 during its first strategic planning session, which included board and community members. Formed by former Gender DynamiX (GDX) staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,534,42,32],"tags":[163,54,701,700,27,118,187,186],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-gender-diverse","category-organisations","category-trans","tag-gdx","tag-gender-dynamix","tag-ppstp","tag-protea-psychosocial-support-for-transgender-people","tag-south-africa","tag-trans-wellness-project","tag-twp","tag-whitney-quanita-booysen"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5996,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/5996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}