GATE (organization)

Transgender and intersex rights organization

Global Action for Trans Equality

Abbreviation| GATE
Formation| 2009
Type| NGO
Purpose| Transgender and intersex rights, education and peer support

Executive director

| Erika Castellanos
Website| gate.ngo

Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE) is an organisation and think tank on gender identity, sex characteristics and bodily diversity (transgender and intersex) issues.[1][2] The current executive director is Erika Castellanos, effective 1 January 2023.[3]

## Founding

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Former co-directors included Mauro Cabral Grinspan,[4] Justus Eisfeld, a co-founder of Transgender Europe and a contributor to the Activist's Guide for the Yogyakarta Principles in Action and Masen Davis, also formerly Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center. The organization was founded in 2009.[5]

## Activism

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The organization works on reform of medical protocols, HIV response, and access to funding.[6] In 2014, GATE and American Jewish World Service published the first study on transgender and intersex groups' access to funding.[7]

GATE also has a connection with Julia Ehrt of Transgender Europe in Germany and Tamara Adrian of International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Law Association in Venezuela.[citation needed] It also maintains a durable relationship with United Nations Special Rapporteurs and NGOs, and tries to advance its political agenda through lobbying at the United Nations and World Health Organization.[8] On 17 June, GATE contributed to the resolution of UN Human Rights Council presented by South Africa along with Brazil concerning human rights on sexual orientation and gender identity.[9] On 30 June 2011, Cabral Grinspan, held a speech at the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights for the trans and intersex rights.[10]

In 2022, GATE released a report mapping anti-trans actors in the United Kingdom. According to the report there had been a "dramatic increase in anti-trans content and activity in UK media and politics" since 2015, and that the most influential group in this rise was a "large coalition of the right/media", though some centrist and leftist actors were also involved.[11]

## Awards and recognition

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In July 2015, Mauro Cabral Grinspan, founding co-director at GATE and would-be executive director, was a co-recipient of the inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award, alongside Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters.[6] The award is named for Bob Hepple, the former lawyer of Nelson Mandela.[12] The Oxford Human Rights Hub comments, "Cabral was crucial in the process leading to the enactment of Argentina’s Gender Identity Law in 2012, a law which has been extensively cited in court decisions on gender identity cases, including the Indian Supreme Court, and which has inspired legislation reform in countries including Malta, the Netherlands and Sweden."[6]

## See also

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* List of transgender-rights organizations
* List of LGBT rights organizations
* Intersex civil society organizations
* Intersex human rights
* Yogyakarta Principles

## References

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1. ^ "Welcome to GATE". Retrieved 3 December 2018.
2. ^ "Intersex side event at the UN Human Rights Council". Organisation Intersex International Australia. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
3. ^ "Erika Castellanos appointed as GATE's new Executive Director". Global Action for Trans Equality. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
4. ^ "Announcing GATE Leadership Changes for 2017". GATE. 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
5. ^ "Transitions at GATE". Global Action for Trans Equality. 22 July 2015. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
6. ^ a b c "The Inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award Celebrates Equal Rights Activists and Advances Support to their Cause". Oxford Human Rights Hub. 21 July 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
7. ^ "First-ever Survey of Transgender and Intersex Advocacy Organizations Reveals Glaring Need for Support, Partners". American Jewish World Service - Ajws. American Jewish World Service. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
8. ^ "GATE geeft een stem aan de transbeweging wereldwijd". mamacash.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
9. ^ "Historic decision at the United Nations". Thecitizen.co.tz. 25 June 2011. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
10. ^ "Summary: LGBTI Rights in the World". The European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights. 7 July 2011. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011.
11. ^ Baska, Maggie (7 August 2022). "UK's 'large, visible and effective' transphobia mapped out in eye-opening new report". PinkNews.
12. ^ Law Society Gazette (July 2015). "Mandela lawyer award winner announced". Law Society Gazette. Retrieved 1 August 2015.

## External links

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* GATE Official Site

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Transgender and gender non-conforming topics

Gender identities|

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* Gender fluidity
* Kathoey
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Health care and medicine|

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Rights|

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Discrimination|

* Against non-binary people
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* Anti-gender movement
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* Gender-critical or trans-exclusionary radical feminism
* Asylum seekers
* Cisgenderism
* Inequality
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Society and culture|

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Theory and
concepts|

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People|

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* France [fr]
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Rights|

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* Spain
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* United Kingdom
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* United States
* legal history
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* 2018 law [es]

Political
office-holders|

* United States

See also|

* 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
* Androgyny
* Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
* Gender
* Gender diversity
* Gender studies
* Healthcare and the LGBTQ community
* Intersex
* Legal recognition of intersex people
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* Yogyakarta Principles

Healthcare and biology|

* Disorders of sex development
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* Hermaphrodite
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* history
* Orchidometer
* Phall-O-Meter
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* Sexual differentiation

Society and culture|

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History and events|

* History
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Rights by country|

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* France
* Germany
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* military

See also|

* Children's rights
* Disability
* rights
* Gender
* LGBT
* Androgyny
* Non-binary gender
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* Queer theory
* Third gender
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* Sex differences in humans

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