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FARUG introduces The Flag, an Interactive Monthly Talk Show that Seeks to Address Issues that affect the LGBTI community

Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG), the oldest Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender organisation in the country has made its mark in the sexual and gender minorities’ community with its economic and social empowerment programmes as well as the legal aid availed to its members

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Human Rights! In Whose Lens? The Agony Of A Transgender Woman In Uganda

I often get questioned by people within and outside Uganda about my identity. They are wondering how I manage living in this extremely conservative country with all these rates of trans-phobia. Honestly I often fail to find an easy answer. It’s who I am. How else could I be? Need I behave in a way that pleases society or in a way that makes the Beyonce in me comfortable? I have never felt like a boy, man, or a male. Yes, I was born male. However, I have always known I was female. I was a female trapped in a male’s body. Since childhood, I have always felt I was a girl and that is the girl who has grown to become a woman I share with the world today.