{"id":2204,"date":"2013-08-23T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T16:12:55","slug":"transgender-education-advocacy-tea-sues-state-of-kenya-and-ngo-coordination-board-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/transgender-education-advocacy-tea-sues-state-of-kenya-and-ngo-coordination-board-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"23 August 2013 \u2014 Transgender Education &amp; Advocacy (TEA) Sues State of Kenya and NGO Coordination Board, Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 23 August 2013 the board of <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/transgender-education-advocacy-tea-established-kenya\/\"><strong><em>Transgender Education &amp; Advocacy (TEA)<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, comprising 3 trans Kenyans \u2014 Audrey Mbugua, Maureen Muia, and Annet Jennifer \u2014 sued the Kenyan State and the NGO Coordination Board for refusing to register TEA as an NGO. The State and the Board opposed the case, indicating that they could not register TEA because they could not tell the gender of its board members. The NGO Coordination Board also indicated that the applicants\u2019 names on their national identity cards did not match the names submitted by the applicants when they applied for registration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July 2014, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/court-allows-transgender-activists-to-register-lobby-group-1007804\">High Court ordered that the NGO be registered<\/a>, stating that the reasons for the NGO Coordination Board&#8217;s refusal &#8220;had no legal basis and were unreasonable&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Audrey-Mbugua-Photo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3527\" style=\"width:911px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Audrey-Mbugua-Photo.png 674w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Audrey-Mbugua-Photo-293x300.png 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Audrey Mbugua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 23 August 2013 the board of Transgender Education &amp; Advocacy (TEA), comprising 3 trans Kenyans \u2014 Audrey Mbugua, Maureen Muia, and Annet Jennifer \u2014 sued the Kenyan State and the NGO Coordination Board for refusing to register TEA as an NGO. The State and the Board opposed the case, indicating that they could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,41,42,32],"tags":[409,205,53,408,190,52],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-legislation","category-organisations","category-trans","tag-annet-jennifer","tag-audrey-mbugua","tag-kenya","tag-maureen-muia","tag-tea","tag-transgender-education-advocacy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}