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Discursos de odio y violencia hacia las personas trans en Paraguay
Yren Rotela, Paraguayan trans activist and founder of Casa Diversa, reflects on religious conservatism in the South, state policies and how trans people of faith find affirmative spaces.NOTE: This article is available in Spanish only.
- Section
- Article
- Work area
- Human Rights | Movement Building
- Written by
- Yren Rotela
- Published
- 19 September 2022
Transmasculine people and HIV: The AIDS 2022 Conference needs you
While the issues that transfeminine people living with HIV and AIDS face have become gradually more visible, transmasculine people still constitute a largely invisible and unheard group within the global response. It is necessary to discuss why it is vital to amplify the scope of scientific research and participation of activists from different backgrounds at the AIDS 2022 Conference.
- Section
- Article
- Work area
- Health | Movement Building
- Written by
- Kira Xonorika
- Published
- 9 March 2022
What if someone says “I am Napoleon?” On trans people and self-determination
Many laws and policies restricting trans people’s access to legal gender recognition have been based on previous restrictions in psycho-medical knowledge prior to the release of the ICD-11, for example, by justifying it as compliance with the World Health Organization’s previously pathologizing classification. However, after 2019, that reasoning is no longer an acceptable excuse. It is time for all countries around the world to behave coherently with their own tradition of compliance, and to depathologize trans people in accordance with the World Health Organization’s updated classification.
- Written by
- Mauro Cabral Grinspan
- Published
- 26 May 2021
Trans Men and HIV: External Resources
This is a short list of online resources that are accessible for free. Many of these projects are trans-led initiatives or had leading trans representatives engaged. This list is not exhaustive but should provide an initial idea of trans masculine inclusive projects.
- Published
- 2 April 2020


