{"id":5202,"date":"2020-11-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:09:05","slug":"november-2020-founding-of-trans-nigerian-support-tns-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/november-2020-founding-of-trans-nigerian-support-tns-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2020 \u2014 Founding of Trans Nigerian Support (TNS), Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">November 2020 \u2014 Founding of Trans Nigerian Support (TNS), Nigeria<\/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\">Founded in November 2020 as a collective of online communities and an organisation by Tom K\u00f3l\u00e1, Trans Nigerian Support (TNS) is a trans and Intersex youth-led feminist organisation advocating for the advancement of access to basic human rights for LGBT+ people, currently centring the transition needs of trans people. It was conceived in 2020 through the creation of 2 voluntary membership groups \u2014 Share Circle and Super Trans Bros \u2014 which focused on community building, education, building awareness and social transition resource distribution. It began formal organising in 2022, first with the collaborative creation of a website for a wider community reach and has since expanded its services and reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trans Nigerian Support is a platform where trans (non-binary and binary) people in Nigeria can come to find information, support, resources, and a community of supportive people who are like them, and share similar experiences. TNS hopes to eradicate the myth that trans people do not exist in Nigeria, and create a safe space where trans people can come to find a reflection of themselves, and their experiences. TNS has not been registered as it is illegal to register LGBTQIA+ organisations in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support-1024x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support-1024x351.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support-768x263.jpg 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support.jpg 1152w\" 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\">TNS envisions a life of dignity, ease and access to gender-affirming resources and healthcare for trans (non-binary and binary) Nigerians.<\/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\">TNS&#8217;s mission is to improve the lives and lived experiences of trans (non-binary and binary) Nigerians by providing reliable information, support, services, and gender-affirming resources that society often denies trans people access to.<\/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\">Goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resource distribution, specifically for gender-affirming products of all kinds that aid social transition. e.g. binders, gaffs, prosthetics, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Building an online repository of information &amp; educational resources via our website and social media.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Safely making gender-affirming hormone therapy available and bridging the gaps in non-existent trans healthcare by developing a safe telehealth system for people to get what they need. This is done in collaboration with supportive healthcare workers who are trans allies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Providing extensive gender-affirming hormone therapy workshops and resources to participants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Working to further trans empowerment via employment in leadership and volunteer roles.<\/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\">More about the reasons for founding TNS, from founder, Tom K\u00f3l\u00e1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b67d07d5c9c29858dfd81a75ad3b664f\">&#8220;When I first came out to myself and a few close people as a Trans Man in 2018, almost everything I needed to feel safe and affirm myself in my gender was either non-existent or inaccessible to a young person like me. There was nowhere to get a &#8220;respectable&#8221;, good quality binder in the country and I absolutely had no hope of starting my medical transition if\/when I wanted to. Thankfully, through community building I was able to surround myself with people on a similar mission and we have since been working together to make these life-changing, life-saving gender-affirming materials available and accessible. The dream is to create a Nigeria where this lack of life-affirming, gender-affirming resources is a thing of the past. Then we want to expand this to West Africa, Africa and the rest of the globe. We want to live in a world where no Transgender youth has to go through what we went through. This is the dream.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-84c1a9144d4876497747f9a24134f579\">Currently, TNS is embarking on pioneering a system of consistent access to Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy for Transmasculine and Transfeminine Transgender individuals of all genders. This is a service that&#8217;s currently non-existent and it puts a major percentage of the population at a disadvantage of safely and consistently accessing their medical transition needs. We have created a system that caters specifically to the healthcare needs of Transgender [non-binary &amp; binary] people despite the current hostility and discrimination prevalent in the country to foster and encourage safe medication use. It is a system that combats the ills and harms of self-medicating for survival and healthcare avoidance for safety.&#8221;<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\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-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support_Tom-Kola-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support_Tom-Kola-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support_Tom-Kola-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support_Tom-Kola-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support_Tom-Kola-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support_Tom-Kola-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trans-Nigerian-Support_Tom-Kola.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Trans Nigerian Support&#8217;s founder, Tom K\u00f3l\u00e1<\/figcaption><\/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\">Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/transnigerians.com\/\">Website<\/a><br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:transnigerians@gmail.com\">transnigerians@gmail.com<\/a> \/ <a href=\"mailto:Thetomkola@gmail.com\">Thetomkola@gmail.com<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/transnigerians\/?__d=1%3Futm_source%3Dig_embed\">Instagram<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TransNigerians\">Twitter (X)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2020 \u2014 Founding of Trans Nigerian Support (TNS), Nigeria Founded in November 2020 as a collective of online communities and an organisation by Tom K\u00f3l\u00e1, Trans Nigerian Support (TNS) is a trans and Intersex youth-led feminist organisation advocating for the advancement of access to basic human rights for LGBT+ people, currently centring the transition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,235,42,32,419],"tags":[71,532,533,521,522,520],"class_list":["post-5202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-non-binary","category-organisations","category-trans","category-transfeminist","tag-nigeria","tag-share-circle","tag-super-trans-bros","tag-tns","tag-tom-kola","tag-trans-nigerian-support"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202","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=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}