{"id":2215,"date":"2014-03-20T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:26:39","slug":"intersex-activist-from-uganda-granted-asylum-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/intersex-activist-from-uganda-granted-asylum-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"20 March 2014 \u2014 Intersex Activist from Uganda Granted Asylum in the U.S., Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nikilas (Nikki) Mawanda, an intersex activist from Uganda and founder of an NGO in the country*,&nbsp; was <a href=\"https:\/\/oblogdee.blog\/2014\/10\/10\/the-i-in-lgbti-and-a-wake-up-call-to-usa-lgbtq-advocates\/\">granted LGBTIQ+ asylum status in the U.S. on 20 March 2014<\/a>. Asylum was granted months after fleeing his home in Uganda due to the state-sanctioned violence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/the-passing-of-the-anti-homosexuality-bill-uganda\/\">Anti-Homosexuality Bill<\/a>, which was passed by the Ugandan parliament earlier in the year.&nbsp;<\/p>\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-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nikilas-Mawanda.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nikilas-Mawanda.png 522w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nikilas-Mawanda-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/figure>\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\">Nikki is one of the trans activists who collaborated with<a href=\"https:\/\/sta.uwi.edu\/crgs\/september2008\/gabrielleleroux.asp\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"757\"> Gabrielle Le Roux<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/december-2008-proudly-african-transgender-south-africa\/\">Proudly African and Transgender portrait drawing series<\/a>, which was created during the Eastern and Southern African Trans\/Gender Identity Institute in December 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">* NGO name removed due to the passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda in March 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikilas (Nikki) Mawanda, an intersex activist from Uganda and founder of an NGO in the country*,&nbsp; 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 the state-sanctioned violence of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which was passed by the Ugandan parliament earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,39,40,33],"tags":[37,66,411,91,367,38],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-community","category-diaspora","category-intersex","tag-anti-homosexuality-bill","tag-asylum","tag-nikilas-mawanda","tag-proudly-african-and-transgender","tag-refugees","tag-uganda"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}