Trans & Intersex History in Africa ^☂️

We document events and important moments in a visual timeline as experienced and remembered by activists on the African Continent and within the African Diaspora.

As is the case worldwide, the anti-gender, conservative, TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminism) rhetoric continues to gain strength and influences government policies, law and public sentiment, which impacts trans and intersex people’s lived realities and their fundamental human rights. We believe that the Trans and Intersex History in Africa (TIHA) project can contribute to the efforts of organisations, specifically those who cannot publicise their work due to threat of financial and legal consequences (which includes one of our founding partners), to ensure that trans and intersex existence is recorded. This record will play a part in ensuring the collaborative strength of the African movements in combating the anti-trans and anti-intersex sentiment on the continent and in the African diaspora.