2017 - Fondation Trans Hope, Afrique du Sud

Trans Hope a démarré de manière informelle en 2017 et, deux ans plus tard, en juin 2019, a reçu ses papiers d'enregistrement. Le professeur Muholi a joué un rôle important dans les premières années, en encourageant et en facilitant la rencontre des membres du groupe et en travaillant à la création de Trans Hope.

2017 - Fondation Trans Hope, Afrique du Sud

Trans Hope was founded in 2017 by Sazi Jali. Trans Hope was formally registered on 6 June 2019, making it the first trans-led organisation in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa. Trans Hope seeks to raise awareness about gender and gender identity and create an environment that is safe and inclusive for gender-diverse people. Sazi Jali saw a need within the community to not just help the members of the support group but to provide support and services to the transgender and gender-diverse community in the KwaZulu-Natal province as a whole. In 2019, with the encouragement of Prof. Zanele Muholi and Dr Chris McLachlan, Trans Hope was registered as a Non-Profit Organisation,

The dream was to mainstream gender diversity in the community through providing safe spaces within both public and private institutions, and to give trans and gender-diverse communities access to education and advocacy. Part of the aim of Trans Hope was to not isolate trans people, so the board and working team included a number of cisgender individuals to assist in the fight for the mutual understanding of diversity within the greater community, to ensure the acceptance of trans and gender-diverse people through creating awareness, and to provide education about trans and gender-diverse issues and to advocate for their human rights.

“We empower our community by providing knowledge about LGBTQIA+ issues and health care. We educate schools, clinics, hospitals and churches in order to provide a safer place for transgender and gender diverse people. We also provide training and conduct workshops.”

Vision

To advance the constitutional rights for the LGBTQIA+ community, ensuring they have a safer space within but not limited to the Republic of South Africa.

La mission

Trans Hope seeks to:

  • Increase knowledge about gender identity and sexual orientation expression as well as sexual characteristics (SOGIESC).
  • Create safe spaces for people who are gender diverse, through killing stigma against LGBTQIA+ people by building our community and empowering them with understanding about the diversity of humankind.

Objectifs

  • Create a safe space for queer people within the cishetoronormative spaces.
  • Fight the anti-gender group to ensure communities are empowered with knowledge.
  • Highlight issues that the trans communities face.
  • Advance economy to the transgender community.
  • Mainstream gender diversity.
  • End GBV (gender-based violence) and hate crimes.
  • Create awareness about equality.

Contact

Site web
+27 65 826 0386
Courriel : info@transhope.co.za

Watch our interview with Sazi Jali

On 22 August 2025, we interviewed founder of Trans Hope, Sazi Jali.

Trans Hope in the media