In a historic court battle initiated in 2013, Transgender Education and Advocacy (TEA) won a landmark case in Kenya’s High Court on 23 July 2014. After being denied the right to register as an NGO, the organisation sued the Kenyan…
Transgender Education & Advocacy (TEA) filed a judicial review application to the Kenyan High Court on 10 July 2014 seeking an order to compel the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board, and the Ministry of Health to develop medical guidelines…
On 3 July 2014, a 4-part series about further violence in the Kakuma Refugee Camp aired on Kuchu TV, a platform created by Ugandan LGBTQIA+ activist, Victor Mukasa. Victor’s work at the Kakuma Refugee Camp started in 2014 after the…
In July 2014, Liesl Theron stepped down as the Director of Gender Dynamix (GDX). Liesl co-founded GDX and served as Director for 9 years. She was succeeded by GDX’s first black* leader, S’bu (full name excluded for safety reasons, but…
26 February 2014 — Founding of Tranz Network Uganda (TNU), Uganda Tranz Network Uganda (TNU) is an indigenous not for profit umbrella organisation for trans and gender diverse persons organisations in Uganda and was established by Williams Apako and Jay…
The Cape Town Declaration on Gender Incongruence of Childhood (GIC) was publicly released in June 2014, requesting the removal of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnoses that pathologise gender diversity in children and youth. The…
In an important series of 5 episodes aired on 29 June 2014, LGBTQIA+ rights activist, Victor Mukasa, provided context to the violence in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, using his TV platform, Kuchu TV. The episodes highlighted that the central issue…
In June 2014, Ugandan LGBTQIA+ activist, Victor Mukasa, created a Youtube channel, Kuchu TV, which aired between 2014 and 2015. The TV station was used as a platform to give daily updates from within the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya,…
Founded in Kenya in 2014, the Malindi Desire Initiative (MDI) began as a support group for transgender people living with HIV. The organisation was officially registered as an ITGNC organisation in 2016. The Malindi Desire Initiative was born from the…
In June 2014, Somalian-born Canadian photographer, Abdi Osman, held an exhibition named ‘Labeeb’ at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. The project features large photographs and a short double-projection video of Sumaya Dalmar, a trans woman originally from Somalia. The…
31 May 2014 — 2nd Trans Health, Research and Advocacy Conference, South Africa Trans and Intersex Africa (TIA), Social, Health and Empowerment Feminist Collective of Transgender and Intersex Women of Africa (S.H.E), and Gender DynamiX (GDX) hosted the 2nd Trans…
24 April 2014 — Founding of Rights for All (RIFA), Rwanda Founded on 24 April 2014 by Madine Mukandayisenga, RIFA (Rights for All) is a Rwandan organisation based in Kigali, focusing on youth, working to promote the rights and well-being…
Nikilas (Nikki) Mawanda, an intersex activist from Uganda and founder of an NGO in the country*, was granted LGBTIQ+ asylum status in the U.S. on 20 March 2014. Asylum was granted months after fleeing his home in Uganda due to…
Prominent anti-Apartheid and intersex activist, Sally Gross, who founded the first intersex rights organisation in Africa (Intersex Society of South Africa), passed away on 14 February 2014. In 2000, Sally secured the first known mention of intersex in national law, with the inclusion of “intersex”…
1er février 2014 — Fondation de Young Queer Alliance, Maurice / 1 February 2014 — Founding of Young Queer Alliance, Mauritius Fondée le 1er février 2015 par Fokeerbux Najeeb Ahmad, Young Queer Alliance travaille avec des personnes lesbiennes, gays, bisexuelles,…
In January 2014, Rikki Nathanson, a Zimbabwean trans woman and modelling agency director was detained by police* after Farai Mteliso, a Zanu-PF Youth League leader, performed a citizen’s arrest on her. She was arrested for being a ‘criminal nuisance’ because…
The Transgender Network of Liberia (TNOL) was founded by Karishma Richards-Kwofie in 2014. The organisation was initially under the umbrella of the NGO Stop AIDS in Liberia (SAIL). When TNOL sought registration status as a legal entity in order to…
The Ugandan parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law on as the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014 (previously called the “Kill the Gays bill” on 20 December 2013. The Ugandan President signed his assent to the Anti-Homosexuality Act on 24 February 2014. The…
The Third International Intersex Forum took place on 29 November 2013 in Valletta, Malta and concluded on 1 December 2013. With the initial 3 principles decided on at the first Forum, and then extended during the second Forum, the ongoing…
Trans Angolan musician, Titica, was made a UNAIDS National Goodwill Ambassador on 7 October 2013. Titica is a pioneer in a local music genre called ‘kuduro’, and even performed for the then Angolan President, José Eduardo dos Santos. Her appointment…
