{"id":4009,"date":"2016-08-07T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:09:34","slug":"2016-founding-of-intersex-advocate-trust-zimbabwe-iaz-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/2016-founding-of-intersex-advocate-trust-zimbabwe-iaz-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 \u2014 Founding of Intersex Advocate Trust Zimbabwe (IAZ), Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2016 \u2014 Founding of Intersex Advocate Trust Zimbabwe (IAZ), Zimbabwe<\/h1>\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\">Intersex Advocate Trust Zimbabwe (IAZ) was founded in 2016 and registered in 2020. IAZ envisions an inclusive society where there is non-discrimination and there is equal treatment of everybody and rights of intersex persons are upheld with unity, dignity and respect. IAZ advocates for the human rights of intersex persons in their diversity leading to productive and fulfilling lives.<\/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 is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5957\" style=\"width:786px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust.jpg 382w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Goal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To advocate for a Zimbabwean society that upholds the human rights of intersex persons in their diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Zimbabwean society that upholds the human rights of intersex persons in their diversity. IAZ advocates for the human rights of intersex persons in their diversity leading to productive and fulfilling lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-995f960e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Values<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Integrity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Innovativeness<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Excellence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 decoding=\"async\" width=\"1944\" height=\"1296\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_2.jpg 1944w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1944px) 100vw, 1944px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>IAZ&#8217;s goal is to raise awareness on intersex conditions and build a strong resilient intersex community that has voice and agency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The organisation\u2019s core business is to champion the rights of intersex persons, raise awareness and recognition on intersex issues and rights, lobby and advocate for inclusion as well as an end to genital mutilation. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IAZ also offers psychosocial support and care to children and adults born intersex and those living with HIV. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IAZ has also vested interests in focusing on intersex children abandoned by parents in different health facilities in the Matabeleland provinces including Bulawayo metropolitan province. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over the past years, IAZ\u2019s programming has evolved to include designing interventions to reach out to parents and other caregivers of intersex children and persons as well as the society at large. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some of the activities have seen the organisation providing a wide range of sexual and reproductive health and rights-based information. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The organisation also runs project activities targeting school teachers, religious institutions, health care providers, traditional leaders and healers and medical practitioners through sensitisation, anti-stigma and discrimination campaigns to further protect the SRHR of intersex persons. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Their ultimate mission is to work towards achieving equality, inclusion and justice for the intersex persons in Zimbabwe through advocacy and collaborative actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-995f960e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1944\" height=\"1296\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_.jpg 1944w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1944px) 100vw, 1944px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1944\" height=\"1296\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_3.jpg 1944w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_3-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Intersex-Advocate-Trust-Zimbabwe_3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1944px) 100vw, 1944px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intersexadvocate.org\">Website<\/a><br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:thandiengwe08@gmail.com\">thandiengwe08@gmail.com<\/a><br>+263 772 857 694<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100067516578007\">Facebook<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zim_iaz\/\">Instagram<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zim_iaz\">Twitter (X)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch our interview with IAZ&#8217;s Director, Thandiwe Ngwenya, 19 June 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Intersex activism in Zimbabwe - Thandiwe Ngwenya, Director of Intersex Advocate Trust 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