Botswana Trans Initiative

Botswana Trans Initiative A human rights organization in Botswana advancing advocacy and the protection of marginalised people

We’re now on WhatsAppBotswana Trans Initiative is now easier to reach through our official WhatsApp line: +267 78383390A...
30/05/2026

We’re now on WhatsApp

Botswana Trans Initiative is now easier to reach through our official WhatsApp line: +267 78383390

A safer and easier way to stay connected with BTI and the community. Whether you’re looking for information, support, updates, referrals, collaborations, or simply want to engage with us, our line is now open.

Save our number and stay connected. Your privacy and confidentiality matter to us.

Trans Inclusive Series: What Does Trans MeanWelcome to our Trans Inclusive Series, a space dedicated to learning, unlear...
27/05/2026

Trans Inclusive Series: What Does Trans Mean

Welcome to our Trans Inclusive Series, a space dedicated to learning, unlearning, and understanding gender diversity through education and conversation.

In a world where misinformation continues to fuel stigma and discrimination, creating accessible and affirming information about trans identities remains important.

Being trans is a valid and natural part of human diversity, and everyone deserves the freedom to define themselves and exist authentically with dignity and respect.

Through this series, we hope to encourage more informed, compassionate, and inclusive communities for trans and gender-diverse people.

Happy Africa Day Africa is not only our geography, it’s our language, our histories, our resistance, our softness, our s...
25/05/2026

Happy Africa Day

Africa is not only our geography, it’s our language, our histories, our resistance, our softness, our survival, and our becoming.

This Africa Day, Botswana Trans Initiative celebrates an Africa where all people, including trans and gender-diverse persons, are seen as part of the continent’s story, future, and freedom.

To be African is not to fit into one way of existing. Our continent has always been diverse, layered, complex, and deeply human. As conversations around identity, dignity, and human rights continue to grow across Africa, we remain hopeful for an Africa that embraces compassion over exclusion and humanity over prejudice.

Today, we honour the generations that came before us, the communities holding each other through difficult times, and the young people daring to imagine a freer and more inclusive continent for all.

Your body deserves care. Your identity deserves dignity. Your future deserves protection. Sexual and Reproductive Health...
25/05/2026

Your body deserves care. Your identity deserves dignity. Your future deserves protection.

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) are essential for everyone, including trans and gender-diverse people who continue to face barriers when accessing safe, affirming, and respectful healthcare services.

From STI prevention and testing to mental health support, contraception, and affirming healthcare access; everyone deserves the right to make informed decisions about their bodies and wellbeing without fear, stigma, or discrimination.

Healthcare should affirm, not exclude.

Botswana Trans Initiative welcomes and celebrates the recent ruling by Kenya’s High Court recognising that transgender p...
21/05/2026

Botswana Trans Initiative welcomes and celebrates the recent ruling by Kenya’s High Court recognising that transgender persons have the right to have applications for changes to gender markers on official documents fairly considered.

This landmark decision is a powerful reminder of the importance of dignity, equality, privacy, and legal recognition for trans and gender-diverse people. Access to identity documents that reflect who people truly are is not merely administrative; it directly impacts safety, access to healthcare, employment opportunities, education, banking, travel, and the ability to move through everyday life without humiliation or discrimination.

We are proud of countries such as Kenya that continue to take progressive and human rights-based steps toward recognising and affirming the rights of transgender people. This victory also speaks to the power of long-term activism, community organising, and the courage of transgender persons who continue to challenge systems that deny their existence and dignity.

As BTI, we remain hopeful that more African countries will continue moving toward legal and social frameworks that protect the rights, humanity, and lived realities of trans and gender-diverse communities.

We celebrate this important milestone with our Kenyan siblings and acknowledge the years of resilience and advocacy that made this moment possible.

Your story matters. Your voice matters.Botswana Trans Initiative invites members of the LGBTIQ+ community to contribute ...
20/05/2026

Your story matters. Your voice matters.

Botswana Trans Initiative invites members of the LGBTIQ+ community to contribute to the Marang Fund regional I-Stories initiative; a powerful collection of real, lived experiences from across Southern Africa.

Whether your story speaks about identity, family, healthcare, joy, discrimination, healing, survival, or simply what it means to exist authentically, your truth deserves to be heard.

To participate, simply scan the QR code on the post image. The QR code will direct you to the Marang I-Stories platform, where you will be guided through the process step by step. The platform is user-friendly and allows you to choose how you would like to share your story be it through the following ways:

📝 Written story
🎙️ Audio recording
🎥 Video submission

You may also choose to remain anonymous.

You do not need to be a professional writer or speaker, just tell your story in your own words, in your own voice. Every story contributes to visibility, advocacy, healing, and documenting the lived realities of LGBTQ+ communities in our region.

Scan. Share. Be heard.

🏳️‍🌈 IDAHOBIT 2026 🏳️‍🌈This past Saturday, we were honoured to join Rainbow Identity Association in commemorating IDAHOB...
19/05/2026

🏳️‍🌈 IDAHOBIT 2026 🏳️‍🌈

This past Saturday, we were honoured to join Rainbow Identity Association in commemorating IDAHOBIT 2026.

The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia is more than a date on the calendar. It is a reminder of the ongoing realities many LGBTQ+ people continue to face from discrimination and violence to exclusion, stigma, and denial of basic rights and dignity.

For trans and gender-diverse people especially, the day represents visibility, resistance, and the right to exist safely and authentically in all spaces. It is also a moment to celebrate the resilience of LGBTQ+ communities who continue to create spaces of care, solidarity, joy, and belonging despite the challenges many still face.

Thank you to everyone who gathered, connected, and commemorated with us.

International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and BiphobiaDemocracy cannot truly exist if some people are forced to ...
17/05/2026

International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

Democracy cannot truly exist if some people are forced to live unseen, unheard, or unsafe. This year’s IDAHOBIT theme, “At the Heart of Democracy,” reminds us that democracy is more than elections and institutions, it is about dignity, participation, protection, and belonging for all people, including trans and gender-diverse communities.

For many trans people, community becomes the first place where we experience affirmation, safety, care, and the freedom to exist authentically. In spaces where exclusion, discrimination, and misinformation continue to threaten our lives and rights, our communities remain important sites of resistance, healing, and collective action.

A democracy that leaves trans people behind is incomplete. True democracy listens to, protects, and values all its people.

Repost: Gender Links WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE. WE CAN’T BE ERASED.“There is strength in community, and being fully myself ...
13/05/2026

Repost: Gender Links
WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE. WE CAN’T BE ERASED.

“There is strength in community, and being fully myself is not something I need to apologise for.” - Sputla

For Sputla, truly feeling seen came from finding community, spaces where they no longer had to explain, shrink, or question themselves. That experience of belonging now fuels their work to ensure that the trans people in Botswana can thrive and live openly, safely, and authentically.

Because trans people have always existed.
And trans joy, resilience, and community cannot be erased.

Join Refilwe Sputla Mogorosi and other regional voices for our Virtual Learning Exchange:

"We’ve Always Been Here: Trans Histories, Colonial Erasure, and Movement Building in Southern Africa"

Date: 15 May 2026
Time: 1230hrs, SAST
Register here: https://genderlinks-org-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/cRdcRQlARTKwNcChoMT_sQ

A little throwback moment.. Conversations like these remain vital in ensuring that policies and institutions respond mea...
13/05/2026

A little throwback moment..

Conversations like these remain vital in ensuring that policies and institutions respond meaningfully to the lived realities of LGBTIQ+ communities, especially young people.

Inclusive policy is not a privilege, it is a responsibility.

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