Transgender men: an explainer for policy makers [English and தமிழ்]

Transgender men: an explainer for policy makers [English and தமிழ்]

We urge community members, service providers (health, education, livelihood, legal) and policy professionals to understand the issues specific to trans men as well as cross-cutting issues, in order to ensure truly inclusive services and policies. We urge that diverse community representation be ensured in consultations for policy development.

Our Own Hurt Us the Most: Centering Familial Violence in the lives of Queer and Trans Persons in the Marriage Equality Debates

Our Own Hurt Us the Most: Centering Familial Violence in the lives of Queer and Trans Persons in the Marriage Equality Debates

This report is about the families that are assigned to us and those that often are the biggest road blocks to being able to live the way we want to. The families that are supposed to be spaces of nurture, care and support, turn against their own children (often at very young ages), treat them with utter disregard and violence, and force them to conform to socially accepted ideas of what is “normal” without any regard to the individual’s dignity or personhood.