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We are excited to announce the second round of the Innovation Small Grants, an initiative designed to support emergent trans-led organisations across Africa. Through this grant, we aim to strengthen trans movements by resourcing innovative ...

The African Trans Network seeks to engage a qualified consultant to provide governance training and policy development services over a period of 3 months to strengthen the organisation’s institutional foundations. This consultancy is ...

Rest is an act of resistance. In early July, a small group of trans activists from across Africa gathered in the peaceful embrace of a lodge in one of Kenya’s most serene landscapes to slow down, reflect, reconnect, and simply be. For six d...

This Pride Month, we’ve been asking: what does Trans African Pride look like?For us, it means looking inward — to our histories, our languages, our spiritual beliefs, and the everyday lives of those who came before us. It means unearthing t...

Our Programmes Officer Brandy Akoth reflects on this year’s IDAHOBIT theme “Power in Communities” at a time when trans lives and communities in Africa are under attack like never before. But, these regressive efforts are not grounded in Afr...

Following a devastating blow to the pursuit of civil rights for transgender people in the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, South African politician, Helen Zille took to social media. In her posts she called the fight for trans rights a...

The African Trans Network (ATN) strongly condemns the Trump administration’s sudden implementation of a 90-day ‘stop-work’ order halting U.S. global foreign assistance, including critical PEPFAR funding. This decision, ena...