Announcements

Funding the Trans* HIV Response

September 18, 2014April 23, 2020

Report of Meeting of Trans* Activists, Donors, and other Key Stakeholders published Both the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) and the… Read More »Funding the Trans* HIV Response

Advancing Trans* Movements Worldwide: A Meeting for Funders and Activists Working on Gender Diversity

September 16, 2014January 25, 2021

In December 2013, trans* and intersex activists and funders currently supporting or interested in supporting trans* and intersex rights, came together in Berlin for a first-ever funding dialogue. The lessons learnt and outcomes from Advancing Trans* Movements Worldwide: A Meeting for Funders and Activists Working on Gender Diversity are documented in the report.

New developments in the ICD Revision Process

August 19, 2014April 23, 2020

GATE (Global Action for Trans* Equality) and STP, International Campaign Stop Trans Pathologization report that the World Health Organization (WHO) has published online its proposals… Read More »New developments in the ICD Revision Process

Statement from Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE) on fake endorsements for a State House candidate in Georgia in our name

May 22, 2014April 23, 2020

It has come to our attention that somebody has made automatic calls (‘robocalls’) aimed at voters in Cobb County, Georgia, USA, to endorse a candidate… Read More »Statement from Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE) on fake endorsements for a State House candidate in Georgia in our name

Stand with Monica Jones’ campaign for the rights of transgender people and sex workers

March 4, 2014December 29, 2020

JOIN MONICA JONES ON +MARCH 14: TAKE ACTION FOR THE RIGHTS OF TRANS PEOPLE AND SEX WORKERS

The Best Practices Policy Project, the Desiree Alliance and Global Action for Trans* Equality are calling for US-wide and international action on +March 14, 2014 to support Monica Jones’ campaign for the rights of transgender people and sex workers.
Monica Jones, a human rights defender in Arizona and an advocate for the rights of transgender people and sex workers, was profiled and wrongfully arrested for “manifestation of prostitution” by a police sting operation and anti-prostitution diversion program known as “Project ROSE”. Ms Jones had been a speaker at a rally protesting Project ROSE—which is run by Phoenix police and Arizona State University’s School of Social Work—the day before. At the time of her arrest, she was not engaging in sex work, but was in fact walking down her street to the local bar.

January 23, 2014April 16, 2020

FIRST-EVER SURVEY OF TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS REVEALS GLARING NEED FOR SUPPORT

Survey conducted by Global Action for Trans* Equality and American Jewish World Service shows groups face significant lack of funding

NEW YORK, NY / BUENOS AIRES, Argentina –Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE) and American Jewish World Service (AJWS) released today the results of the first-ever survey of transgender and intersex groups around the world in a new report, The State of Trans* and Intersex Organizing. The report is being presented on January 28 during the International Human Rights Funders Group’s 2014 San Francisco Conference.

The survey of 340 organizations documents the deep discrimination and multiple challenges facing trans* and intersex people and the organizing that they are leading worldwide to win their human rights. It also shows the significant funding shortfall facing trans* and intersex groups and the challenges and obstacles they face in obtaining resources to carry out their work.

Declaración de GATE en el Día Internacional por la Eliminación de la Violencia contra las Mujeres

November 25, 2013

GATE convoca hoy a una nueva conmemoración del Día Internacional por la Eliminación de la Violencia contra las Mujeres.

Notamos con profundos rechazo y preocupación que las mujeres trans* continúan siendo uno de los blancos más constantes pero invisibles de la violencia generizada, la cual golpea con particular virulencia contra las trabajadoras sexuales trans*, las mujeres trans* en prisión o en otras instituciones de encierro, las mujeres trans* negras, las mujeres trans* en zonas de conflicto armado, ocupación, o desastres naturales, las mujeres tras* de comunidades indígenas, las refugiadas, migrantes, las mujeres trans* que viviendo con VIH y las defensoras de derechos humanos.

GATE Statement – Trans* Day of Remembrance

November 20, 2013

Each year, the commemoration of the Trans* Day of Remembrance reminds us of those who died, as victims of transphobic violence. This year is no different and, once again, we are confronted by the painful and increased numbers of trans* killings.

Declaración de GATE en el Día Internacional de Acción por la Despatologización Trans*

October 21, 2013

Este año, como cada año, GATE se une a la celebración del Día Internacional por la Despatologización Trans*. Hoy, 19 de octubre del 2013, activistas, grupos y redes de trabajo a lo largo de todo el mundo se unen bajo una afirmación en común: nuestras experiencias de corporalidad, identidad, amor, sexualidad, género y sus múltiples expresiones no son y no deben ser clasificadas como patológicas.

GATE Statement on the International Day of Action for Trans* Depatholoziation

October 19, 2013

This year, as every year, GATE joins the celebration of the International Day of Action for Trans* Depathologization. Today, October 19, 2013 activists, groups and networks around the world unite with a common affirmation: our experiences of embodiment, identity, love and sexuality, gender and its multiple expressions are not and must not be classified as pathological.