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1994 \u2014 First Printed Media Reference to The Travesti, C\u00f4te d’Ivoire \/ Ivory Coast<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In the Ivory Coast, the Travesti<\/em>* was a prominent group, recognised and documented from the early 1990s, but they were most likely active before the 90s**. They formed L\u2019association des Travestis de C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast Transvestites Association)<\/strong><\/em>, under the leadership of Barbara (full name withheld for safety reasons). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first record of the group is from printed media in 1994, where journalists were quite sarcastic in their attitude towards the travestis and the group, using disrespectful, critical language and tone, which was harmful to the travestis population. A militant group of travesti activists stormed the building where the newspaper\u2019s offices were located, broke some windows, and assaulted some of the journalists. According to the research document Violence, Exclusion and Resilience among Ivoirian Travestis<\/em><\/a> by Matthew Thomann and Robbie Corey-Boulet, this 1994 incident and similar occurrences during the same time led to the formation of the Ivory Coast Transvestites Association.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a> here<\/span> and here <\/a>about travesti and other gender variant identities from the Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* \u201cTravestis\u201d is the French word for \u201ctransvestites\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 ** The exact founding date is not clear, but according to different sources, the Association has existed since the early 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1994 \u2014 First Printed Media Reference to The Travesti, C\u00f4te d’Ivoire \/ Ivory Coast In the Ivory Coast, the Travesti* was a prominent group, recognised and documented from the early 1990s, but they were most likely active before the 90s**. They formed L\u2019association des Travestis de C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast Transvestites Association), under the leadership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,39,320,35,235,32],"tags":[461,44,385,1701,43],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-community","category-cross-dressing","category-lgbtqia","category-non-binary","category-trans","tag-cote-divoire","tag-ivory-coast","tag-ivory-coast-transvestites-association","tag-travesti","tag-travestis"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7251,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/7251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}