Kampala Key, Vulnerable and Priority Populations (KVP) News

Gender is fluid. Gender is dramatic. Society is to a tide what gender is to an ocean. Society and gender draw determination from each other. To legislate gender is likely to lead to censoring social roles which may nip genres, innovation, agency, determination, autonomy and productivity in the bud. Dress, prayer, song, recreation, drama, dance, prose, interaction, political dispensation, service delivery, scripture, religiosity, normativity, feminism, masculinity, education, knowledge and skills transfer, parenting, trade, speech, liberty, happiness, socialisation, ritual, rites of passage, gender reveal events, nurturing and lifestyle will be affected in a post Anti-Gay Act 2023 Uganda. Anti-Gay is a regime that fuels negative gender stereotyping, upholds misandryist and misogynistic tendencies including sardonic, innuendo-laced and suggestive remarks sexually objectifying bodies. A male whose voice never breaks and a female who grows beards will be stigmatised. Uganda is to be ...

It is usual to hear of stories from Uganda where vigilante community members gang up to beat and murder Transgender Persons.  What is not usually said is the fact that in almost all scenarios, the Transgender Persons actually know the perpetrators and have worked or related with them in one way or another.  In this scenario, the Transgender Person in question was a village health mobilizer and had worked in this area for close to a year. Her preferred pronouns were: she, her, hers. She was a zealous worker, committed to fight HIV in her home area somewhere in Kasese, Uganda. She loved the community and mobilized resources to connect her community to HIV Prevention. This is the very community where she was born. It is the same community from which hateful perpetrators full of vicious animosity have murdered her for being Transgender. It is so sad, we cannot have closure to this hate crime because it is done in a country where it is hard to report such c...