Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE) is an organisation and

think tank A think tank, or public policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governme ...

gender identity Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent and consistent with the in ...

sex characteristics Sexual characteristics are physical traits of an organism (typically of a sexually dimorphic organism) which are indicative of or resultant from biological sexual factors. These include both primary sex characteristics, such as gonads, and sec ...

and bodily diversity (

transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...

and

intersex Intersex people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binar ...

) issues. The current executive director is , effective 1 January 2023.

Founding

Former co-directors included

Mauro Cabral Grinspan Mauro Cabral Grinspan, also known as Mauro Cabral, is an Argentinian intersex and trans activist and researcher. He coordinates the project on intersex depathologization at InterAction for Health and Human Rights. Previously, he served as the Seni ...

, Justus Eisfeld, a co-founder of Transgender Europe and a contributor to the Activist's Guide for the Yogyakarta Principles in Action and

Masen Davis Masen Davis (born March 29, 1971) is an American transgender rights activist who is currently the interim executive director of Transgender Europe, and was previously the executive director of Freedom for All Americans and of the Transgender La ...

, also formerly Executive Director of the

Transgender Law Center The Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest American transgender-led civil rights organization in the United States. They were originally California's first "fully staffed, state-wide transgender legal organization" and were initially a fisca ...

. The organization was founded in 2009.

Activism

The organization works on reform of medical protocols, HIV response, and access to funding. In 2014, GATE and

American Jewish World Service American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit international development and human rights organization that supports community-based organizations in 19 countries in the developing world and works to educate the American Jewish com ...

published the first study on transgender and intersex groups' access to funding. 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

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s and NGOs, and tries to advance its political agenda through

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at the United Nations and

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. On 17 June, GATE contributed to the resolution of

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presented by South Africa along with Brazil concerning human rights on sexual orientation and gender identity. On 30 June 2011, Cabral Grinspan, held a speech at the

European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights The Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI, after the French name ''Sous-commission des droits de l'homme du Parlement européen'') is a subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament. It is responsible for issues of human ...

for the trans and intersex rights. In 2022, GATE released a report mapping anti-trans actors in the United Kingdom. According to the report there had been a "dramatic increase in anti-trans content and activity in UK media and politics" since 2015, and that the most influential group in this rise was a "large coalition of the right/media", though some centrist and leftist actors were also involved.

Awards and recognition

In July 2015, Mauro Cabral Grinspan, founding co-director at GATE and would-be executive director, was a co-recipient of the inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award, alongside Pragna Patel of

Southall Black Sisters Southall Black Sisters (SBS) is a non-profit organisation based in Southall, West London, England. This women's group was established in August 1979 in the aftermath of the death of anti-fascist activist Blair Peach, who had taken part in a dem ...

. The award is named for

Bob Hepple Sir Bob Alexander Hepple Order of Luthuli, OLG (11 August 1934 – 21 August 2015) was a South African-born legal academic and leader in the fields of labour law, equality before the law, equality and human rights. Early life and education He w ...

, the former lawyer of

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( , ; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa f ...

. 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."

References

External links

GATE Official Site
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Founding

Activism

Awards and recognition

See also

References

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