'I want all human beings to be safe, to be treated with dignity, and to have equal rights,' said Jay Mulucha, a trans man from Uganda and the Executive Director of FEM Alliance Uganda, an organization formed in 2012 to promote fundamental rights and human dignity for a stigma-free Uganda.
Munich, Germany —"I want all human beings to be safe, to be treated with dignity, and to have equal rights," said Jay Mulucha, a trans man from Uganda and the Executive Director ofMulucha is the first trans man to provide opening remarks at an International AIDS Conference.
"It is no longer safe for us to gather together as a community, and so we have become even more vulnerable and isolated than we were before, making us feel completely alone," he said."This isolation has led many of us to experience suicidal thoughts, as our situation can seem completely hopeless. The anti-homosexuality act has had devastating effects on the trans community.
"As you can imagine, as the leader of the FEM Alliance Uganda organization, the impact of these evictions on my health, both mental and physical, was extremely distressing," he said."But I had to put the needs of my community before my own. I had to find solutions to the problems that not only I was facing, but that every trans person in Uganda was now facing."
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