The Uganda national trans forum strives to build a robust, resilient and sustainable transgender and gender diverse movement in Uganda.
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Uganda National Trans Forum retweeted
This is the #HopeInMotion Podcast, with conversations for an Animated paths to Better HIV, TB & Malaria Care for the TGD community.
Listen to the full part-1 of this podcast via: youtu.be/KLgDWW4X8PU?si=_Vmq…
#TYIUganda #GenderEqualityFund
#InclusiveHealthcare
@UgandaTrans @ViiVHC @transforumug
64 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE FREEDOM MUST BELONG TO EVERYONE! 🏳️⚧️
Today, as Uganda marks 64 years of independence, the Uganda National Trans Forum (UNTF) joins the nation in reflecting on the meaning of freedom, dignity, justice, and equality.
For transgender and gender-diverse Ugandans, independence must mean more than freedom from colonial rule. It must also mean the freedom to exist, to express our identities, to access healthcare, to live free from violence and discrimination, and to participate fully in our country's social, economic, and political life.
We recognize the courage, resilience, and collective resistance of transgender communities who continue to organize, build solidarity, and demand an Uganda where no one is left behind.
Our identities are not a threat to Uganda's independence. Our freedom is part of that promise.
As we celebrate this historic day, we reaffirm our commitment to building a Uganda where every transgender and gender-diverse person can live safely, freely, and with dignity.
True independence is not complete until freedom, justice, and equality belong to us all.
Happy 64th Independence Day, Uganda! 🇺🇬
Our existence. Our dignity. Our freedom.
#UgandaAt64 #UgandaIndependenceDay #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FreedomForAll #TransDignity #UNTF #UgandaNationalTransForum #EqualityForAll
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📢 Happening Today!
Join us this afternoon for the CSW71 Anglophone Civil Society Organisations Consultation.
Come share your perspectives, reflect on progress and challenges, and contribute priorities and recommendations that will help shape Africa’s collective advocacy ahead of CSW71.
🗓️ Today, 6 October 2026
⏰ 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EAT
💻 Online
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4dgwvWl
#CSW71 #AfricaDisruptCSW71
📢 Calling all Anglophone Civil Society Organisations!
Ahead of the 71st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW71), we invite CSOs from Anglophone Countries to join the consultation.
Join the conversation to share perspectives, reflect on progress, challenges, contribute priorities and recommendations that will help shape Africa’s collective advocacy ahead of CSW71.
🗓️ 6 October 2026
⏰ 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EAT
💻 Online
🔗 Register here:bit.ly/4dgwvWl
#CSW71 #AfricaDisruptCSW71
Uganda National Trans Forum retweeted
#HRAPFpublication
HRAPF's August 2026 violations report on violence and other human rights violations based on real or presumed SOGIE
Read the full report here➡️ hrapf.org/mdocs-posts/hrapfs…
Uganda National Trans Forum retweeted
Accurate information can save lives.
Know the facts. Share the truth.
#HopeInMotion #InclusiveHealthcare #TYIUganda #GenderEqualityFund
CELEBRATING OUR OWN: AGGIE DENNETT HARMON 2026 INTERNATIONAL PRIDE AWARD RECIPIENT
Uganda National Trans Forum (UNTF) proudly celebrates our member @aggiedennett for receiving the 2026 International Pride Award Celebrating Diverse Lives, presented by UNDP and ILGA World during the WorldPride Human Rights Conference in Amsterdam.
This global recognition celebrates Aggie’s courageous leadership and commitment to championing the protection, freedom and equality of trans, gender-diverse and intersex people.
As a Ugandan trans pastor, advocate, and community leader, Aggie has consistently created spaces of healing, dignity, and belonging for LGBTIQ+ communities, particularly trans women who experience violence, displacement, stigma, and exclusion. Through community organizing, psychosocial and trauma-informed support, harm reduction, faith, storytelling, and advocacy, she continues to demonstrate what transformative, community-led leadership looks like.
For us at UNTF, this recognition carries profound significance. When one of our members is recognized on the global stage, our entire movement is seen. It affirms the leadership, resilience, and contributions of transgender people in Uganda who continue organizing, caring for their communities, and advancing equality despite an increasingly challenging environment.
Aggie, we celebrate you not only for receiving this prestigious award but also for the lives you continue to touch, the spaces you create for others to belong, and the courage with which you continue to lead.
Your achievement reminds us that trans leadership from Uganda belongs on the global stage.
Congratulations, Aggie Dennett Harmon! 🏳️⚧️👏🏾
May this recognition strengthen your work and inspire even more trans and gender-diverse leaders across Uganda, Africa, and beyond.
All of us at the Uganda National Trans Forum are incredibly proud to celebrate this milestone with you.
#InternationalPrideAwards #CelebratingDiverseLives #AggieDennettHarmon #UNTF #TransLeadership #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransUganda #TransRights #LGBTIQ #Equality #HumanRights #CommunityLeadership #Uganda
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On 5 August at the Human Rights Conference during WorldPride Amsterdam, I received the International Pride Award for celebrating Diverse lives
For me, this is about faith, survival, healing, and harm reduction.
It reflects the work we are building through @NangeHC256 @TAYCOFUg and the realities our community faces every day.
This award is ours. – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Celebrating Monalisa’s incredible award! 🎉 A true testament to the power of showing up and leading the way. Read More: 🔗 kuchutimes.substack.com/p/re…
Celebrating Community-Led Excellence.
Huge congratulations @MonaFem256 , our Uganda National Trans Forum Coordinator, on receiving the IAS/ANRS MIE Lange–van Tongeren Prize for Young Investigators at AIDS 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Monalisa received this prestigious international award for her abstract:
"Protecting Choice Under Criminalization: Early Lessons from Uganda National Trans Forum on Introducing Lenacapavir for Trans and Gender Diverse Communities."
Winning the top award in Track F: Political Science, Laws, Ethics, Policies and Human Rights is a remarkable recognition of rigorous, community-led research that places transgender and gender-diverse people at the center of scientific innovation.
This achievement is more than an individual milestone; it is a testament to the resilience, knowledge, and leadership of our communities. It demonstrates that those most affected by criminalization and exclusion are also leading the way in generating evidence that shapes better health policies and more equitable systems.
At the Uganda National Trans Forum, we believe trans communities are not just participants in research; they are researchers, innovators, advocates, and leaders.
Congratulations, Monalisa. Your work inspires a generation of young African researchers and reminds the world that meaningful science begins by listening to communities.
We are incredibly proud of you. 🏳️⚧️
#AIDS2026 #IAS2026 #YoungInvestigators #Lenacapavir #TransHealth #CommunityLedResearch #HumanRights #GlobalHealth #UgandaNationalTransForum #TransLeadership #ResearchForEquity #RethinkRebuildRise
Uganda National Trans Forum retweeted
💜 Disability justice isn't separate from other justice.
A person with a disability may also be a woman, LGBTQIA+, a refugee, Indigenous, a worker, or part of another marginalized community. Our identities don't exist in isolation — and neither should our movements.
ALT What is Disability Justice Across Movements
ALT Disability justice reminds us that disability is not a single issue—it intersects with every part of our lives and every movement for justice. A person with a disability may also be a woman, LGBTQIA+, a refugee, Indigenous, a young person, a worker, or part of another marginalized community. These identities do not exist separately, and neither should the movements working to advance rights, dignity, and equality.
ALT What is Disability Justice Across Movements About? Building stronger connections between disability rights, gender justice, LGBTQIA+ rights, refugee rights, youth leadership, climate justice, economic justice, and other social justice movements. When we work together, we challenge exclusion more effectively, amplify each other’s voices, and build communities where no one is left behind.
ALT Through Pride in Every Identity 2026, we are creating space for organizations, activists, and community members to learn from one another, share experiences, and imagine what genuine solidarity looks like. Because Disability Justice is not only about access. It is about belonging. It is about leadership. It is about transforming our movements so that every person can participate fully and with dignity. Together, we are building disability justice across movements.
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Today is #ZeroHIVStigmaDay
Stigma remains one of the biggest barriers to HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care. While we have made remarkable progress in improving the quality of life for people living with HIV and reducing new transmissions, our work is not done.
We stand together to end the shame, silence, discrimination, and exclusion that too many people still face. Every voice, every story, and every act of solidarity brings us one step closer to a world free from HIV stigma.
Let's choose compassion over judgment, facts over fear, and inclusion over discrimination. Together, we can create a future where everyone can access care, live with dignity, and thrive, without stigma.
#EndHIVStigma #StopStigma #HIVAwareness
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#HRAPFpublication
HRAPF's June 2026 violations report on violence and other human rights violations based on real or presumed SOGIE
Read the full report here➡️ hrapf.org/mdocs-posts/hrapfs…
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EBOLA ALERT | Protect Yourself. Protect Your Community.
Ebola is real, but early action saves lives.
Remember:
🦠 Ebola can spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids, including saliva, of a person who is sick with Ebola. Avoid kissing or having close contact with anyone who has symptoms.
Not everyone with Ebola presents with bleeding. If someone has:
• Fever
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Severe weakness
Think Ebola. Isolate. Report immediately.
If you or someone you know develops these symptoms, seek medical attention immediately and avoid close physical contact with others.
Call the Ministry of Health toll-free: 0800-100-066
Send an Alert SMS to: 6767
Or message U-Report: 8500
At Trans Youth Initiative-Uganda (TYI-Uganda), we encourage everyone in our communities to stay informed, practice good hygiene, and support one another with accurate information not fear or stigma.
Together, we can protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities.
#StaySafe #ThinkEbola #EbolaAwareness #PublicHealth #CommunityHealth #TYIUganda #StopTheSpread #UgandaHealth
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In partnership with TYI Uganda, under our Building Accessible Pride project, we trained community leaders and advocates to build inclusive SRHR interventions and programs. These were Monalisa’s reflections after the session.
#accessiblepride #accessiblehealthcare
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We asked some of our participants under the Accessible Pride Project what accessibility looks like in SRH care. Here is what Alibasham had to say.
Disability inclusion in SRHR is a rights issue. Inclusion is not charity. It is justice.
#accessiblepride #accessiblehealthcare
Uganda National Trans Forum retweeted
History lives in old stories. As we witnesses a historic court ruling affirming that trans Kenyans can seek changes to gender markers on official documents, we are reflecting on where this journey began, and the courage that made moments like this possible. #TransRights
Uganda National Trans Forum retweeted
When healthcare systems exclude people, barriers become violence. We need accessible services for all.
#accessiblepride #accessiblehealthcare
ALT Barriers to SRHHR. 1. Systematic barriers e.g institutions with no ramps, no interpreters and stigma. 2. Many health centers don’t provide adjustments people need e.g easy communication support. 3. Medical persons fail to offer respectful service delivery to gender diverse and persons with disability
Uganda National Trans Forum retweeted
Behind screens, womxn are navigating violations that are often minimized or misunderstood, screenshots shared without consent, coercion masked as “normal” interactions.
This #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth, we choose care, in how we speak and in what we share.
#EndTFGBV
#SAAM
Uganda National Trans Forum retweeted
Community is not a buzzword. In so many of our contexts, that is often the only thing standing between you and a very bad outcome. Kalani Walter of East Africa Trans Health and Advocacy Network (EATHAN) says understanding our trans identity as political means understanding that our lives are connected to everyone else's and that being seen without anything actually changing is just a decoration.
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La communauté n'est pas un simple mot à la mode. Dans bien des situations, c'est souvent la seule chose qui vous protège d'une issue désastreuse. Kalani Walter, du East Africa Trans Health and Advocacy Network (EATHAN), affirme que considérer notre identité trans comme un enjeu politique, c'est comprendre que nos vies sont liées à celles de tous les autres et que le simple fait d'être vu sans que rien ne change réellement n'est qu'une façade.
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«Comunidade» não é apenas uma palavra da moda. Em muitos dos nossos contextos, é frequentemente a única coisa que se interpõe entre nós e um desfecho muito negativo. Kalani Walter, da East Africa Trans Health and Advocacy Network (EATHAN), afirma que compreender a nossa identidade trans como algo político significa compreender que as nossas vidas estão ligadas às de todas as outras pessoas e que ser visto sem que nada mude na prática é apenas uma fachada.
#TDOV2026
Uganda National Trans Forum retweeted
Rwenzori mountains are strong, and so are you – let's keep standing tall, proud, and unapologetic in our identities #TransDayOfVisibility #Uganda
