Trans Smart Trust works to promote the identification, inclusion, integration and assimilation of human rights issues affecting Intersex and transgender persons within different social groups of the larger Zimbabwean community.
Trans Smart Trust is an organization focused on intersex and transgender persons founded in 2012 and registered as a Trust on the 16th of July 2016 after a long struggle in an environment where there is limited appreciation and acknowledgement of the existence of intersex and transgender persons. Trans Smart Trust works to promote the identification, inclusion, integration and assimilation of human rights issues affecting Intersex and transgender persons within different social groups of the larger Zimbabwean community. Through Trans Smart strategic focus, the organization’s participatory methodologies have become the fulcrum for integrated inventiveness in developing intersex and transgender person’s livelihoods. The organization has continuously been working on improving the Health, Human rights, Life Skills, Capacities and participation in governance processes. Trans Smart Trust manages a portfolio of projects targeting intersex and Transgender persons who constitute intersex and transgender people living with HIV, albinism within urban and rural areas. The organization’s activities bridges the knowledge gaps through information dissemination and provides capacity building for rural and urban populaces, facilitates platforms for the community and its leadership to interrogate as well as take action in promoting human rights.
The Houston Intersex Society aims to empower and enrich the lives of intersex people while working to end shame and discrimination through education, outreach, and support.
The Houston Intersex Society was formed on June 27, 2012. Both co-founders knew each other as teenagers in an LGBT youth group but because of shame, stigma, and secrecy neither one was open about their intersex status. They reconnected as adults at a local community center and upon learning that they both felt the same isolation while sitting next to each other every Friday night for years as teenagers, they decided to create an organization that very day. They created the organization with the intention to be visible to other intersex people, to advocate for those intersex individuals unable to advocate for themselves, to influence legislation to protect intersex bodies, and to educate medical providers so they can provide adequate care to intersex people.
The Houston Intersex Society aims to empower and enrich the lives of intersex people while working to end shame and discrimination through education, outreach, and support.
OII Sverige envisages a world where the diversity of the human body is both recognized and celebrated beyond our current system which only validates people with bodies and genders which conform to male or female.
OII Sverige was formed on the 28th of February 2018. Before that the members were part of a loosely formed network called Intersex Scandinavia. OII SVERIGE envisages a world where the diversity of the human body is both recognized and celebrated beyond our current system which only validates people with bodies and genders which conform to male or female. OII SVERIGE as an organization offers support and advocacy for people with intersex variations, that is, bodies that do not conform to the standard definitions of female and male. OII SVERIGE also offers information to families, patient support groups, and concerned health professionals through presentations by group members. OII Sverige is open to intersex people who want to advocate for intersex human rights, but of course OII SVERIGE will work for all people with intersex variations in Sweden, regardless of if they want to participate in the organizations work or not. The goal for OII SVERIGE is to create a stronger and more collaborative intersex movement in Sweden, increase visibility and the need for everyone to engage with intersex issues.
Ivy Foundation was formed to create awareness for intersex persons and non intersex persons to create a better environment for intersex persons which caters to their needs and is more understanding of their different conditions and advocate for the rights of an intersex person both young and old.
Ivy Foundation was formed in 2016. They recently organized a workshop for journalists with 30 reporters from all three major regions in Malawi: Mzuzu, Blantyre and Lilongwe, as well as a workshop for the LGTBIQ community. The latest lead to the constitution of a monthly peer–support meeting for intersex people. They are building a sustainable organization by investing in staff and an office.
Intersex South Africa (ISSA) is dedicated to raising awareness of intersex issues in South Africa while advocating and supporting all intersexed South Africans.
Intersex South Africa was created by the late intersex organizer Sally Gross, and became dormant after Sally’s death in 2014, but was revived in 2017. They continue strengthening their organization with the adoption of a strategic plan. They are involved in the regional and international intersex movement and participate in events like the African intersex meeting or the Global Feminist LBQ conference. They have a strong presence on social media and have been front and center in media coverage on Caster Semenya’s case. They also build awareness with screenings, debates, panels and discussions. On advocacy work, they are giving training to stakeholders such as the South African Human Rights Commission and calling them to conduct a national inquiry and a law reform, to review school curricula, and to ending intersex mutilation.
During covid–19, the organization conducted a national survey to understand how the members of the intersex community were affected and published a report out of it.
IPSK started in Nairobi on November 2016 to provide support and creating awareness as well as gathering data to establish the identifiable presence of intersex persons in Kenya, the identifiable presence of practice or beliefs that the human rights, dignity or lives of all such persons.
IPSK started in Nairobi on November 2016 to provide support and creating awareness as well as gathering data to establish the identifiable presence of intersex persons in Kenya, the identifiable presence of practice or beliefs that the human rights, dignity or lives of all such persons. IPSK succeeded in their goal to have the “intersex” category included in the national census in August 2019. They are continuing their advocacy work by sensitizing the senators to have intersex people included in registration and health–related bills. They also participated in many media interviews, and create a publication on intersex stories about mental health. On October 26th they organized a public intersex gathering for IAD, to reclaim public space.
Intersex Asia works for/with intersex activists, organizations, and communities in Asia.
Intersex Asia was established as a network by all the participants of the first Asia Intersex Forum on Feb 10, 2018. Intersex Asia works for/with intersex activists, organizations, and communities in Asia. The network aims to be a leading and sustainable intersex human rights advocacy organisations in Asia, that will strengthen the capacity of all Intersex Asia members to advocate and promote intersex human rights in Asia while becoming an intersex resource hub for intersex human rights education, advocacy and research in Asia. They are progressing in their goal of sustainability with the recent hire of a full–time coordinator, and are in the process of registration. They are currently preparing a survey for intersex people in Asia. During covid–19, they created a Urgent fund which allowed them to support more than 100 intersex people in six Asian countries.
The mission at lntersex and Faith is: “Working together to support, advocate with, and educate others about intersex people to help faith communities welcome those born outside the male/female binary.”
Intersex & Faith was registered as a nonprofit in Tennessee in 2017, but Lianne and Megan have been working together giving presentations, writing blog posts, giving interviews and writing books for the past 8 years. The mission of Intersex & Faith is “Working together to support, advocate with and educate others about intersex people to help faith communities welcome those born outside the male/female binary”. They mostly worked on filming, editing, then presenting the documentary Stories of Intersex and Faith. Astraea’s support allowed them to show it in many festivals as well as medical institutions, and inviting intersex people to join panel discussions.
Interaction Switzerland is a Swiss intersex led national organization, advocating for intersex human rights.
InterAction Switzerland was founding on intersex awareness day 2017
Interaction Switzerland is a Swiss intersex led national organization, advocating for intersex human rights. The organisation, which was founded in 2017, engages in community building, awareness-raising and legislative work. The organization’s aim is to have a legal prohibition of nonconsensual and non-vital treatments on intersex people in Switzerland. Therefore, InterAction Switzerland facilitates different trainings to medical professionals, human rights institutions, schools and other stakeholders meet with parliamentarians and aim to have a vocal community in Switzerland who’s fighting together against medical malpractice. Thanks to Astraeas’ funding and support, InterAction Switzerland has managed to organise events, monthly peer support groups, build alliances, and make intersex rights and lives more visible in Switzerland.
La Fundación Reflejos de Venezuela is an organization whose objective is to educate, train and inform on values for the fulfillment of the human rights of the populations that receive the least support within society and civic and social identities.
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La Fundación Reflejos de Venezuela is an organization whose objective is to educate, train and inform on values for the fulfillment of the human rights of the populations that receive the least support within society and civic and social identities. They achieve this by sharing the realities and needs of the LGBTI community in Venezuela with the national and international community. They post educational informatio non various topics of human rights and current affairs in Venezuela, including the part of nature and what New Models of Families are referring to on their website, social networks and on their radio show, Radio Reflejos. These mediums allow the Foundation to share information in educational, informational, private and public, national and international places, and mainly to LGBTI families and individuals for their support. The initial project of the Foundation is that of “Transpasemos las Barreras” aimed at bringing to the attention of Trans and Intersex people everything from social, psychological and family support to the hormone therapy process. For the achievement of this objective, their main slogan is:“No soy distintX no me trates distintx,” or “I am not different, so don’t treat me differently.”
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La Fundación Reflejos de Venezuela es una organización cuyo objetivo es el de educar, formar e informar en valores humanos para el cumplimiento de los derechos humanos de la población que se ha mantenido sin apoyo dentro de la sociedad y de las identidades cívicas y sociales. La principal manera de realizar el objetivo parte del hecho de ser la comunidad LGBTI la que llegue al colectivo nacional e internacional y lograr la adhesión de dicha sociedad a la realidad y necesidad de la población LGBTI. La educación e información se apoya en su página web, redes sociales y dentro de ella la Radio Reflejos en diversos temas de derechos humanos y de la actualidad venezolana, incluyendo la parte de la naturaleza y lo que a Nuevos Modelos de Familias se refiere entre los que se encuentra la homoparientalidad. Este medio informativo acerca a la Fundación a lugares educativos, informativos privados y públicos, nacionales e internacionales y principalmente a familias y personas LGBTI para su apoyo, el proyecto inicial de la Fundación es el de “Transpasemos las Barreras” dirigido a la atención de las personas trans e Intersex que requieren desde la orientación social, psicológica y familiar hasta los pasos de protocolo de hormonización. Para el logro de su objetivo general señala el lema principal “No soy distintX no me trates distintx”.
