2018 — Founding of National Transgender Advocacy Network (NTAN), Kenya
Established in 2018, the National Transgender Advocacy Network (NTAN) is a consortium that supports trans, gender diverse and intersex movements in Kenya through action, freedom, power, and knowledge-building approaches that focus on building socio-cultural support networks among trans movements to voice their concerns and to stimulate capacity building that inform organisational learning that is strategic, authentic, visible and trans-led. NTAN has several core functions that support trans organisations to prepare for and respond to the complexities they face in different regions. Members include Jinsiangu, Trans* Alliance (TA) as co-chairs, and Pwani Transgender Initiative (PTI), Muamko Mpya, Malindi Desire Initiative, Trans Sisters Network Nakuru, Trans Support Organization (TSO), Lake Basin Initiative for Transgender Empowerment (LABASITE), OutStar Busia, Bungoma Life Ambassadors, Tula Self Help Group, and Youths for Equality Forum Homabay
Vision
To see a society that upholds gender equality, dignity, respect and fairness for all trans people.
La mission
To uphold gender equality, dignity, and rights for all trans people in Kenya.
Work
Key focus areas:
- Advocacy for legal gender recognition and documentation rights
- Movement building and participatory grantmaking
- Public awareness and political engagement
NTAN’s gender-affirming healthcare-related advocacy and service-delivery learning is focused on contributing to expanding trans, non-binary and intersex people’s participation through in-country global partnerships with healthcare systems advocating for deliberate inclusion of gender identity, gender expression, and bodily diversity issues in the work of donors, health systems, and with local, national, regional and international organisations working on primary healthcare needs of trans, non-binary and intersex persons grounded in international human rights practice standards.
Advocacy
NTAN’s involvement in local, national, and International Human Rights systems aims to end human rights violations based on gender identity, gender expression, and bodily diversity issues, including those of criminalisation, exclusion, violence, stigma, and discrimination holding governments accountable to social justice indigenous issues.
Community at the centre
NTAN is working to create a radical expansion of political organising by formally plugging trans organisations in different sectors to harness their specific input and expertise on gender identity, gender expression, and bodily diversity issues at the local, national, regional, and international levels so that activists can participate in all decision-making processes affecting their communities.
Knowledge management
The network’s approach to knowledge management aims to promote an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing NTAN’s information assets. These assets include databases, documents, policies, procedures, and previously un-captured expertise and experience in Network membership organisations.
Contact
Contact can be made through NTAN’s co-chairing organisation, Jinsiangu
Site web
Courriel : jinsiangu@gmail.com