Asia Pacific Transgender Network

Reimagining Our Future: Trans and Gender Diverse Peoples Convening in Southeast Asia

The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly revealed the vast social, economic and health disparities experienced by trans and gender-diverse communities. We knew that the pandemic would have wide-ranging impacts on the lives of people in the trans and gender-diverse communities across Asia and the Pacific region. As a result of the pandemic, there is increased surveillance […]

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NEWS: Vietnam’s Health Ministry Stresses ‘LGBT Is Not a Disease’ in Response to Rise in ‘Gay Cure’ Clinics

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health recently issued an official dispatch stressing that homosexuality, bisexuality, and ‘transsexuality’ is not a disease, hence urging to eliminate conversion therapy. Nguyễn Thị Kim Dung, an official from SCDI, told the news source that her center has received various messages from members of the LGBT community who were taken to hospitals […]

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Request for Proposals – Seed Funding for Trans Youth Inclusion and Participation

Request for Proposals – Seed Funding for Trans Youth Inclusion and Participation Application Deadline29 August 2022DurationAugust – October 2022 Background Despite the existence of trans- and youth-led organizations in the Asia-Pacific region, restrictive legal and policy frameworks limit their capacity to support young trans people. The COVID-19 pandemic has also led to decreased funding for essential […]

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: