Trans people

Trans community in Burkina Faso: a sense of achievement

The trans community in Burkina revisits the changes brought by the PRIDE programme over the years : an increased visibility and place in the broader LGBTI ...
2021

Chale Wote Street Art Festival 2019 – Ghana

In August of 2019 the district of Jamestown in Accra, Ghana hosted the 9th annual Chale Wote Street Art Festival. Chale Wote is the largest street art festival ...
2020

Election of Miss and Mister IDAHOT 2019

This Story of Change shows how the trans movement, which is very recent in Burkina Faso, is rapidly gaining visibility and organizing events that create ...
2020

Finding Solace in Ghana

This is a story about Sadat, a 23-year-old transwoman from Ghana who spoke about their experience being wrongly imprisoned and the process leading to their ...
2019

Burkina Faso: the transgender community

Story of the creation of a transgender space in a country where transgenders are non-existing. Transgender people in Burkina Faso were provided a space ...
2018

Botswana: Raising awareness of stakeholders and mobilization

Rainbow Identity Association’s (RIA) lessons learned process focused on raising awareness on issues of transgender and intersex persons to different ...
2018

South Africa: Trans and Gender Affirming Health Care

It starts with the first contact at the front desk: how does the administrator reacts on you? The trainings by Gender Dynamix sentisize all workers in the ...
2017

Ghana: Develop your passion

‘Develop your passion and dare to achieve more’. Quitta (Sadiq) tells about her development as a trans woman and how she has become a role model ...
2017

Zambia: Health Care Providers’ sensitization and capacity

Trans Bantu Zambia’s (TBZ) lessons learned focussed on Health Care Providers (HCP) sensitisation on the health needs and appropriate services for Trans ...
2017

Tanzania: Trans people parents

It is not a one-day process: Programmes engaging parents of transgender people. Mwamba Nyanda from Tanzania tells about the slow process of gaining understanding ...
2017