Asia Pacific Transgender Network

Trans Awareness Week 2021

Trans Awareness Week creates an opportunity for the trans and gender diverse community members and allies to promote education, advocacy, activism and bring visibility to the community to help address the challenges that the communities and movements are facing. For this year’s Transgender Awareness Week, we want to share some of our communities in the […]

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GCRI-SOGI – Global COVID-19 Research Initiative on SOGI – New Website

A collective of 21 LGBTQ+ organisations from around the world has come together to establish the Global COVID-19 Research Initiative on SOGI (GCRI-SOGI) to investigate how the pandemic has affected LGBTQ+ communities globally. As a collective, we have identified a need to generate insights that can clearly demonstrate the impact of the pandemic on LGBTQ+ […]

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Joint Statement: Trans Day of Remembrance 2021 – Together, we fight!

As we mark Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), we take a moment to honour those in our communities who were murdered over the past year. Between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021, the Trans Murder Monitoring registered 375 reports of trans and gender-diverse people killed worldwide. Ebeng Mayor, a 21-year-old trans masculine non-binary person from […]

Our Work

Across Asia and the Pacific, trans and gender diverse people are denied fundamental human rights, from legal recognition to employment, housing and health services. This severely undermines their ability to live a fulfilling, healthy and dignified life. APTN, together with a range of partners, supports, organises and advocates for the advancement and protection of the rights of the trans and gender diverse people to live authentically and stay safe in the world. We work towards a society that respects the fundamental human rights of trans and gender diverse people, and upholds, respects, and protects their diversity, safety, equality and dignity.

Research

Sheddings light on the diversity and lived reality of the trans and gender diverse community in Asia and the Pacific
Advocacy

Advancing Justice, Rights and Access
Movement Building

Towards a Resilient and Self-reliant Trans Movement
Public Campaigning

Engaging with traditional, online, and social media to raise public awareness of the issues affecting our community

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Where we work

APTN works across the Asia and the Pacific, home to more than one-half of the global population, a diverse region where countries have varying levels of human development. We work across the entire region to address the persistent binary gender norms and systemic patriarchy. We do so because the trans and gender diverse people continue to be marginalised and deprived of their rights, including their bodily rights.

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Our Community

Our aim is to build a robust, resilient and self-reliant community of trans and gender diverse people in Asia and the Pacific. We achieve this by working with local partners, community members and development agencies to co-create interventions, evidence-based programmes and initiatives at country, regional and global levels. We do this for trans and gender diverse people, policymakers, health care practitioners and providers, and international agencies.

Here’s some of our projects and community partners: