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Causes: Civil Rights, Lesbian & Gay Rights, LGBTQ
Mission: Gate's mission is to work internationally on gender identity, gender
Programs: Depathologization - the world health organization's (who) international classification of diseases (icd) is the diagnostic resource used globally. Trans people are severely psycho-pathologized and intersex people face human rights violations in the current version of the icd-10 used in most countries. Similarly, intersex people face human rights violations derived from icd. For the first time in 25 years the icd-10 is under a process of revision and reform. Coordinating an international initiative focused on the icd-10 reform process in pursuit of three core objectives: increase trans, gender-variant, and intersex activists' expertise and political mobilization on human rights in medical settings; securing icd reforms that depathologize trans, gender-variant, and intersex people while granting their full access to legal recognition and healthcare; preventing the introduction of new icd references pathologizing trans, gender-variant, and intersex children.
international hiv response - contributing to expanding trans participation in international hiv activism, as well as the inclusion of gender identity, gender expression and bodily diversity issues in the work of donors, official agencies and institutions, and international organizations working on hiv. In 2018, gate became a founding member of the unaids global hiv prevention coalition, aiming to strengthen & sustain political commitment for primary prevention. We have partnerships with other or
movement building - working to create a radical expansion of political organizing on gender identity, gender expression, and bodily diversity issues at the local, national, regional and international levels so that activists participate in all decision-making processes affecting their communities. Contributed decisively to the production and circulation of reliable data and critical analysis on funding dynamics affecting trans and intersex activism, which has increased activists' and donors' und
united nations - aims to end human right violations based on gender identity, gender expression and bodily based on gender identity, gender expression and bodily