TransHealth Oasis -THO

26/12/2025

Highlights

25/12/2025

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

Access Chapter 2 is wishing you a joyful Christmas filled with peace, love, and happiness. As we celebrate this special day, let's remember to uphold the spirit of compassion and justice. Please continue to report any human rights violations you encounter, ensuring our holiday remains a time of peace and goodwill for all.

From the ACCESS Chapter 2 Team

03/12/2025

21/11/2025

Today we say their names.
Today we remember.
Today we stand still.

21/11/2025

We stand in solidarity with the national shutdown in protest of the femicide crisis in South Africa.

There will be no revolution if it is not intersectional.

20/11/2025

20/11/2025

🕯️ Transgender Day of Remembrance 🕯️
Today, our hearts become a quiet place of memory, reflection, and truth.
We gather in person, online, in spirit to honour every trans life stolen by hatred, violence, rejection, or invisibility. On this day, we say their names out loud, because the world did not say them enough when they were alive.
Today is not just a day of mourning; it is a day of witnessing.
We witness the pain carried by communities who bury their loved ones far too soon.
We witness the strength of trans people who continue to exist boldly in a world that often tries to dim their light.
We witness the courage it takes to live authentically, even when authenticity is treated as a threat.
Each life lost had a story a favourite song, a dream career, a person they loved deeply, a laugh that made someone else smile. They were daughters, sons, siblings, friends, lovers, and souls who deserved more time, more joy, more life.
To the trans community:
Your resilience is extraordinary.
Your existence is valid.
Your identity is yours sacred and complete.
You deserve safety not only in policy, not only in theory, but in the daily reality of your life. You deserve homes that welcome you, workplaces that affirm you, healthcare that respects you, and communities that celebrate you.
To the families, friends, and communities grieving today:
Your grief matters. Your love matters. The way you keep their memories alive matters.
May you find comfort in knowing that the world remembers with you, fights with you, and refuses to let their stories fade.
To the world:
Let today not be symbolic.
Let it be instructional.
Honour them by protecting the living.
Honour them by challenging transphobia whenever it appears in conversations, policies, institutions, and homes.
Honour them by creating a world where being trans is not a risk, but a right to thrive.
🕯️ We remember the fallen.
🕯️ We honour the living.
🕯️ We recommit to justice, compassion, and solidarity.
Because remembrance means nothing if it does not move us toward change.
Rest in power. Rise in memory. Live in our commitment.

20/11/2025

19/11/2025

18/11/2025

✨ WEEKLY GENDER DIVERSITY SPOTLIGHT ✨
Because understanding comes before celebration, and visibility grows through education.

Understanding Gender Diversity

Gender diversity reminds us that human identity isn’t limited to two boxes. People experience and express gender in multiple, valid ways and this has existed across cultures, including Africa, long before colonial laws and religious imports.

A quick breakdown:

S*x = physical/biological characteristics (chromosomes, hormones, reproductive anatomy)

Gender = inner sense of self (woman, man, both, neither, fluid, etc.)

S*xuality = who we are romantically or s*xually attracted to

These three are not the same, and none of them need to align to be normal.

Trans - gender identity differs from s*x assigned at birth
Inters*x natural variations in s*x characteristics
Non-Binary / Gender Non-Conforming identity or expression beyond male/female only

Being trans or inters*x isn’t a trend.
Being non-binary isn’t confusion.
Gender diversity isn’t foreign.
It is human, natural, and historical.

Recent Wins for Gender-Minority Communities

🇿🇦 Africa Wins

✔ South Africa: A transgender inmate won a landmark ruling affirming her right to gender-affirming healthcare, pronouns, and gender-appropriate expression within correctional facilities.
A powerful recognition that dignity must travel everywhere even behind walls.

✔ Advocacy language across African human-rights spaces is increasingly expanding to include non-binary, inters*x, and gender-diverse identities not only binary transition narratives.

🌐 Global Wins

✔ UN SOGIESC Mandate Renewal strengthens global protection work covering S*xual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression & S*x Characteristics, giving inters*x and gender-minority rights a stronger international framework.

✔ Caster Semenya’s ongoing legal influence continues to shift global awareness around bodily autonomy, inters*x representation, and natural variance, reinforcing the movement far beyond sport.

✔ More countries are adopting non-binary gender markers, gender-neutral policies, and inters*x-affirming healthcare guidelines, contributing to global momentum for dignity and recognition.

Why This Matters

Celebrating wins is not only about what changed in the law
it’s about affirming existence, identity, health, safety, and belonging.

Every court ruling plants a seed.
Every visibility moment shifts perception.
Every educated mind becomes a safer space.

*xAwareness

12/11/2025

10/11/2025

Trans Awareness Month Monday Wins

It’s Trans Awareness Month.
And across Africa trans people are not just surviving…
we are winning in ways the world rarely reports.

This past week Trans wins in Africa:

• Kenya trans led community health mutual aid continued expanding HRT access even during economic contraction.
• South Africa trans researchers + lawyers continued constitutional defense strategy that protects already existing legal precedent.
• Ghana trans organizers kept digital safety systems live under intense threat environment.
• Nigeria trans collectives sustained underground economic empowerment networks so Black trans women cannot be economically isolated or disposable.

These wins don’t get headlines.
These wins are rarely recorded in the historical archive.
But they are real.
And they move the future.

Trans Africans are not a future hypothetical debate.
Trans Africans are here.
And are building Africa’s future now.

This Trans Awareness Month center African trans people in your vision of African economic development, constitutional liberation, and African modernity.

Trans liberation is African development policy.