Grupo Transas do Corpo: Educating Activists and Stopping Discrimination

Founded in 1987 in the Brazilian state of Goias, Grupo Transas do Corpo (Transas) provides community education and training on women's health, sexuality, and reproductive rights to health professionals, educators, high school and university students, and advises government officials on issues related to sexual and reproductive rights and health.

Transas hosts workshops for adolescents on advocacy, sexual rights, reproductive rights, gender, and race and has designed a university level course on incorporating feminist practice and research into academic work. Transas also helps emerging activists learn how to protect their rights and articulate their health needs, make informed decisions about their lives and sexuality, and serve as a resource on sexuality and reproduction for friends and colleagues. Transas maintains a resource center with an extensive collection of materials on sexual and reproductive rights, which is used by activists and scholars and is publicly available.

Because Goias is one of the states in Brazil with the highest number of crimes against homosexuals, much of Transas’ work has focused on protecting the sexual rights of gays and lesbians, and preventing discrimination. They have provided key financial and technical support to a group of young women, who created   the Group of Feminist Lesbians (Articulacao Feminista Lesbica), one of the first lesbian groups of Goias. Transas is an active member of two national feminist networks, the Feminist Health Network (Rede Feminista de Saúde) and the Brazilian Women’s Network (Articulação de Mulheres Brasileiras-AMB), one of IWHC's colleagues. IWHC has supported Transas since 1993.

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Page last updated 5/1/08.