Global Action for Trans Equality

Global Action for Trans Equality
Abbreviation GATE
Formation 2009
Type NGO
Purpose Transgender human rights, education and peer support
Co-directors
 Mauro Cabral, Masen Davis
Website transactivists.org

Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE) is an organisation and think tank for transgender rights founded in 2009. Current co-directors are Mauro Cabral and Masen Davis.[1] Mauro Cabral is an Argentinian intersex and trans activist, and signatory of the Yogyakarta Principles.[2] Former co-directors included Justus Eisfeld, a co-founder of Transgender Europe and a contributor to the Activist's Guide for the Yogyakarta Principles in Action.

Mission

The mission of GATE is as follows;

GATE also works on intersex human rights issues.[4][5]

Activism

The organization works on reform of medical protocols, transgender issues in the HIV response, and access to funding by transgender organizations.[6] In 2014, GATE and American Jewish World Service published a first study on transgender and intersex access to funding.[4]

The GATE also has a connection with Julia Ehrt of Transgender Europe in Germany and Tamara Adrian of International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Law Association in Venezuela. It also maintains a durable relationship with United Nations Special Rapporteurs and NGOs, and tries to advance its political agenda through lobbying at the United Nations and WHO.[7] On 17 June, GATE also contributed to the resolution of UN Human Rights Council presented by South Africa along with Brazil concerning human rights on sexual orientation and gender identity.[8] And on 30 June 2011, Mauro Cabral, the co-director made a speech at the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights for the trans and intersex rights.[9]

Awards and recognition

In July 2015, Cabral was a co-recipient of the inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award, alongside Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters.[6] The award is named for Bob Hepple, the former lawyer of Nelson Mandela.[10] The Oxford Human Rights Hub comments, "Cabral was crucial in the process leading to the enactment of Argentina’s Gender Identity Law in 2012, a law which has been extensively cited in court decisions on gender identity cases, including the Indian Supreme Court, and which has inspired legislation reform in countries including Malta, the Netherlands and Sweden."[6]

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