GATE – Global Action for Trans Equality is an international advocacy organization campaigning globally for trans, gender diverse and intersex equality
GATE seeks to ensure that trans, gender diverse, and intersex (TGDI) people can enjoy their human rights and achieve the highest level of health and wellbeing possible. We do this through advocacy, knowledge generation, movement building, and capacity building and training.
GATE focuses on advocating for the human rights of trans, gender diverse, and intersex people, while also playing a pivotal role in strengthening the global trans, gender diverse, and intersex (TGDI) movements through training, capacity building, resource mobilization and political mobilization. Additionally, GATE prioritizes its institutional strengthening to ensure that we can continue to grow and develop as the leading advocacy and expert organization advancing the rights, health, and well-being of trans, gender diverse, and intersex (TGDI) people in a sustainable way.
Founded in 2009 by Justus Eisfeld and Mauro Cabral Grinspan, today GATE remains the only international organization focused on issues relating to gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics. GATE is registered in the US as a 501c3 nonprofit organization, with all our staff working remotely.
Our Mission…
is justice and equality for trans, gender diverse and intersex communities.
Our Vision…
is a world free from human rights violations based on gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics.
Our Values:
- framing our work through depathologization and decolonization
- promoting autonomy and self-determination
- supporting and strengthening community-based leadership
- working collaboratively and advocating collectively for human rights
- creating transformative, community-driven knowledge
- building international solidarity
Our Approach:
- advocacy, political mobilization, and campaigning
- engagement with key institutions and initiatives
- training and capacity building
- resource mobilization, including financial and technical resources
- knowledge production and generation, including data collection and analysis
- re-granting to national and regional groups
