We Work To Advocate Document Amplify Promote
the interests of rural transgender youth women, transgender youth sex workers and gender diverse youth communities within Uganda’s LGBTI movement
We are Trans Youth Initiative-Uganda
Welcome to Trans Youth Initiative
Trans Youth Initiative-Uganda (TYI-Uganda) is a rural transgender youth women, transgender youth sex workers and gender diverse youth led human rights organization that exists to uphold, advocate and advance the health and human rights of rural transgender and gender diverse youth communities in Uganda but specifically western Uganda.
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What Do we Do?
Trans Youth Initiative-Uganda work strives to advocate, advance and ensure that rights of rural transgender youth women, transgender youth sex workers, and gender diverse youth are upheld, protected and promoted through amplifying their voices and access to justice, equitable access to friendly comprehensive gender affirming sexual and reproductive health care services, legal aid and furthermore work on legal gender recognition, policy and legal change, violence prevention, research and documentation of human rights violations,artivism, safety and security, economic justice/empowerement,legal and human rights awareness, mental health and wellbeing, movement building as well as advocating against the punitive, restrictive policies and regulations that encourage violations of rural transgender youth women, transgender youth sex workers and gender diverse youth rights.
