Steering Committees

Hamlet Nkwain
Chair of the Bisexual Steering Committee
Elected at the 2024 World Conference in Cape Town, South Africa

Hamlet Nkwain (he/him) is the Chair of ILGA World’s Bisexual Steering Committee.

He has extensive experience as an activist in Cameroon, including a strong volunteering experience and serving on the Steering Committee of the Black Queer Travel Guide and as Executive Director of Working For Our Wellbeing in Cameroon. He is also an abstract reviewer for ICASA and the International Aids Society.

Nkwain is an award-winning activist with expertise in decriminalisation, gender diversity, equality, and parity. He holds certificates in gender and environment, international and African standards on freedom of expression, and the African human rights system. He has intervened in nearly 200 cases and is a leading consultant in Cameroon advocating for social justice and equality.

Organisation: Working For Our Wellbeing (Cameroon)

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Haider (he/him) is a dedicated bisexual activist and community organiser from South Asia, currently serving as the Asia Representative on the Bisexual Committee.

With a background in development and a passion for human rights, he has been actively involved in advocacy for the rights of SOGI+ individuals, with a specific focus on increasing the visibility and inclusion of bisexual+ communities across Asia. His work emphasises creating safe spaces, challenging biphobia and monosexism, and building bridges between diverse social justice movements.

Haider is committed to advancing intersectional equality and ensuring that the voices of bisexual people from the Global South are heard and centered in regional and international discourse.

Rachael Moore
ILGA-Europe representative on the ILGA World Board, and representative of the Bisexual Steering Committee for Europe and Central Asia

Rachael Moore (she/her) is a dedicated LGBTQIA+ activist, DEI consultant, and nonprofit leader with over a decade of experience in policy analysis, intersectional advocacy, and community empowerment. With a background in youth movements and LGBTQ+ rights, she has worked extensively to challenge discrimination and push for systemic change in both social and professional settings.

In 2018, Rachael co-founded Rainbow Nation, an organisation that amplifies the visibility of queer, trans, Black, and Brown individuals. Committed to the principle of “Nothing about us without us,” Rainbow Nation works to address the aftermath of racism, transphobia, and xenophobia within the LGBTQ+ community by providing support groups for QTBPOC individuals and organising community-building initiatives.

She currently serves as a board member of ILGA Europe and the EU representative on the ILGA World Bisexual Steering Committee, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights across Europe and Central Asia. Her work continues to push for inclusive and safe(r) spaces for marginalised communities at all levels of society globally.

organisation: Rainbow Nation (Belgium)

Alex Hernández Muro
Representative of the Bisexual Steering Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean

Psychologist and researcher, a specialist in sexual and gender diversity, she has conducted studies on gender-based violence and its impact on the mental health of LGBTINB+ people in Peru and the processes of mobilisation and migration of Peruvian LGBTINB+ people and migrants and refugees in Peru.

She has been a bisexual activist for more than 10 years and has carried out scientific dissemination activities on gender and diversity issues, research and advocacy in public policy, especially in the areas of health, diversity, violence and recognition of the rights of LGBTINB+ people.

She is the author of the book República de Invisibles, of the Proyecto Bicentenario del Perú, on policies, citizenship and LGBTIQ+ activism, and is currently Project Director of the association Más Igualdad Perú, where she also coordinates the Bi+ Committee.

organisation: Más Igualdad (Peru)

Nastassia Rambarran
Representative of the Bisexual Steering Committee for North America and the Caribbean

Nastassia Rambarran (she/her) is a queer Guyanese-Barbadian scholar-activist, researcher and physician currently serving as the Vice-Chair on the board of Equals in Barbados. She has been involved in LGBTQ+ activism for almost two decades and has a passionate interest in queer history and health.

Organisation: Equals (Barbados)

Bisexual Steering Committee representative – Oceania

vacant position

Obioma Chukwuike
Representative of the Intersex Committee for Africa, Chair of the ILGA World Intersex Committee

Obioma Chukwuike (they/them) is a dedicated advocate for intersex and human rights, a scholar with a Master’s degree in Environmental Conservation. They are the visionary Founder and Executive Director of Intersex Nigeria (Center for Healthcare Development and Youth Empowerment), a pioneering intersex organization in Nigeria committed to raising awareness and advocating for the rights and well-being of intersex individuals across the country.

In 2021, Obioma authored the groundbreaking report The Situation of Intersex Persons in Africa During the COVID-19 Pandemic. This influential document highlighted the challenges faced by intersex individuals during the pandemic, including barriers to healthcare, mental health struggles, housing insecurity, and issues surrounding sexual and reproductive health, empowerment, and social justice. They also developed the toolkit Integrating Intersex Perspectives Into Healthcare Policies for Inclusive Practice in Nigeria, supported by the OutRight International UN Rights and Religion Fellowship. This resource serves as a comprehensive guide for healthcare professionals in Nigeria to promote inclusive practices.

Obioma serves as the Board Chair of the African Intersex Movement (AIM), of Pan Africa ILGA and ILGA World. A recognised leader in the global intersex community, they are also an alumnus of two prestigious human rights fellowships: the OutRight International UN Rights and Religion Fellowship and the International Service for Human Rights’ Human Rights Defenders Advocacy Program (HRDAP).

Organisation: Intersex Nigeria (Nigeria)

Jeff Cagandahan
Asia representative of the Intersex Steering Committee
Elected at ILGA Asia Conference, Kathmandu, February 2025

Jeff Cagandahan (he/him) is a pioneering Filipino intersex man and human rights activist known for his landmark legal victory in 2008, when the Supreme Court of the Philippines recognised his right to change his name and gender marker, making him the first intersex person in the country to gain legal gender recognition.

Born in 1981 and assigned female at birth, Jeff was diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a condition that led to the development of male physical traits during adolescence. His case emphasised the right to self-determination and became a cornerstone for intersex rights in the Philippines.

He is the Co-founder of Intersex Philippines and a Board Member of Intersex Asia, playing key roles in advancing intersex human rights across the region. Jeff has been outspoken about the need for awareness, healthcare access, and societal inclusion for intersex people.

Dan Christian Ghattas
Representative of the Intersex Steering Committee for Europe and Central Asia

Dan Christian Ghattas, PhD, is the Executive Director of Organisation Intersex International Europe (OII Europe).

He started advocating for intersex human rights in Europe in 2009, and has since provided expertise to governments, EU and CoE and UN Treaty Bodies.

He was one of the initiators of the first International Intersex Forum (2011) and is a co-founder and former co-chair of OII Europe. In 2013, he compiled the first empirical (pre-)study on the life situations of intersex individuals worldwide, Human Rights Between the Sexes, covering 12 countries and most continents. In 2016, he authored the ILGA-Europe/ OII Europe Intersex Toolkit Standing up for intersex human rights – How can you help? and in 2019 the ILGA-Europe/ OII Europe legal toolkit Protecting intersex people in Europe. A toolkit for law and policy makers. With digital appendix and checklist. Since 2015, he is the European Advisor for the Astraea Intersex Human Rights Fund and since 2016 Bridge Advisor for the Disability Rights Fund.

organisation: OII Europe (Germany)

Ale López Bemsch
Intersex Steering Committee representative – Latin America and the Caribbean
elected at the ILGALAC regional conference, La Paz, April 2023

Ale López Bemsch (he/him) is an intersex activist from Argentina. Founder of the organisation Argentina Intersex. Researcher on Intersex issues at the Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Sexual (CEDISEX) of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. In 2023 he was elected Director of the Intersex Committee of the Regional Council of ILGALAC. Since 2024 he is part of the PCA of the International Trans Fund (ITF).

organisation: Argentina Intersex (Argentina)

Intersex Steering Committee representative – North America & Caribbean
One person appointed by the ILGANAC Board in January 2021 (Note: pending some final information)

Tu Chapman
Intersex Steering Committee representative – Oceania
Appointed after the 2024 ILGA World Conference in Cape Town, South Africa

Tu Chapman (she/her) of Māori descent (indigenous to New Zealand) is a passionate advocate and leader for Indigenous and intersex rights in Aotearoa. Tu is also the Chair of Intersex Aotearoa and is humbled to take up the role of Intersex sub-committee Chair for ILGA Oceania.

organisation: Intersex Aotearoa (Aotearoa New Zealand)

Alejandra Collette Spinetti Núñez
Chair of the Trans Steering Committee
Elected at ILGA World Conference, Cape Town, November 2024

Alejandra Collette Spinetti Núñez (she/her) is a literature and dance teacher. She has been campaigning for the human rights of trans people since 2000, and in 2011 and 2012 she initiated alerts demanding the clarification of the murders of trans comrades, which are still unresolved.

In 2012 she founded and chaired UTRU (Unión Trans del Uruguay) and since 2017 she has been president of the national organisation CTU (Colectivo Trans del Uruguay). She has been working with trans people deprived of liberty since 2014, and also with trans people in extreme poverty, trans children and adolescents, families with trans children, trans migrants, and non-binary people.

She works all over the country giving workshops and conferences in educational centres, health centres, detention centres, migrant shelters, and for the trade union movement. She also works in the articulation with territorial and regional organisations, and as a social and political consultant.

She has written several articles on different aspects of the transgender community that have been published in books in Cuba, Brazil and Mexico. She is a member of the first National Diversity Council where she participated in the drafting of the Comprehensive Law for Trans People (Law 19.864), was part of the panel that presented that project at the Presidency of the Republic on 17 May 2017, and defended the law in the face of the attack by the movement led by the neo-pentecostal churches and the political right to repeal it.

At national and international level she is:

– co-founder and general secretary of the Corpora en Libertad network (international network working with LGTBQI+ people deprived of their liberty)
– member of RIE (Ibero-American Network of LGTB Education)
– member of the Lac Observatory (network for the registration of hate killings of trans people in Latin America and the Caribbean).
– Trans Secretary of ILGALAC
– president of the Trans Committee of ILGA World
– member of the Trans and Dissident Bloc of Uruguay
– president of CTU Trans Collective of Uruguay
and was for three years co-chair of the Governing Board of the International Trans Fund.

Organisation: Colectivo Trans del Uruguay (Uruguay)

Barbra Wangare
Representative of the Trans Steering Committee for Africa

Barbra Wangar (she/her) is a queer African feminist social justice worker and activist from Kenya, East Africa.

She is the Executive Director of EATHAN – East Africa Trans Health & Advocacy Network; a network of intersex, trans* and gender non-conforming (ITGNC) individuals and organisations in East Africa. She has over 7 years of experience working on and with intersex, trans* and gender non-conforming individuals and organisations across the African continent and has been instrumental in the growth of the movement. Her passion towards improving the livelihoods of all ITGNC persons in the region is what drives her.

organisation: EATHAN (Kenya)

Aisha Mughal
Asia representative of the Trans Steering Committee
Elected at ILGA Asia Conference, Kathmandu, February 2025

Aisha Mughal (she/her) is a transgender rights expert working with the Ministry of Human Rights in Pakistan and as a UNDP Consultant.

Since 2015, she has been actively advocating for transgender rights. In 2020, she made history as the first transgender person to represent any country during an official UN treaty review, participating in Pakistan’s national delegation to the UN CEDAW committee in Geneva.

Aisha has contributed to peer-reviewed research on transgender issues and played a key role in the drafting and approval of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018. She has also served with the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) in Pakistan.

Franco Fuica
Representative of the Trans Steering Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean

Franco Fuica (he/they) is a trans activist with a degree in Education. He began his activism in 2005 when he became the first trans leader of his university’s Student Federation and created CUDSO (Coordinadora Universitaria de la Diversidad Sexual de Osorno). He is part of the Coalition of LGBTTI organizations of the OAS, the ERC (Equality Right Coalition), the Board of ILGALAC, the ITF (international Trans Fund) grant panel, and he is the co-founder of ULTrans (Unión Latinoamericana de Trans Masculinidades). He is currently the legal representative of OTD Chile – Organizing Trans Diversidades Chile, his grassroots community.

organisation: Organizing Trans Diversidades (Chile)

(photo by Alejandra Fuenzalida)

Susan Gapka
Representative of the Trans Steering Committee for North America & Caribbean

Susan Gapka (she/her/elle) is a founding member and chair of the Toronto Trans Coalition Project which emerged from the advocacy work of the Trans Lobby Group in Ontario Canada. Susan helped lead the Ontario campaign to fund transition related surgeries, helped change the Vital Statistics Act so trans people’s legal documents more accurately reflect their lived identity, and drafted and successfully campaigned to adopt legislation to amend the Ontario Human Rights Code and Canadian Human Rights Act to include ‘gender identity’ and ‘gender expression’. These three pillars – access to health care, human rights protection, and legal identification – have laid to foundation for trans and nonbinary legal and social inclusion in Toronto, Ontario, and Canadian society.

organisation: Canadian Union of Public Employees – CUPE/LGBT group (Canada)

Ratu Eroni Ledua Dina

Representative of the Women’s Committee for Oceania

“A Fiji where we are free to be whatever we Dream to be” is the Vision Eroni Dina has for the Fiji Islands and is the cornerstone of Eroni’s work for a better Fiji for ALL. Eroni who hails from the Island of Kadavu with maternal links to Lau and Tonga, finds inspiration in carrying on the legacy of her mother who died of Breast Cancer who till her last breath remained instrumental in Eroni’s Career. She is a Quality Analyst and Trainer by profession managing a Learning and Development team as Training & Quality Manager with Fiji’s largest Global BPO – Mindpearl.

Music, LGBTIQ rights and indigeneity is a Passion that Eroni is well known for in various local forums. She is a Registered Recording Artist/Songwriter and for 12 years she was a Music Director and Head of the Arts and Culture Department with the Pasifika Voices Choir, a program by OCACPS – University of the South Pacific which was also renowned for recording Disney’s Moana along with other local stage productions. At OCACPS – USP she was also a Vocal/Performance Coach and tutor, a Freelance Performer and Production Vocalist. Apart from this, Eroni Dina is an Anti-Bullying Ambassador under the Anti-Bullying movement here in Fiji, a Member of MEN-Fiji as Peer-Educator and LGBTIQ Youth Activist before transcending to be Human Resources Director AND Vice Chair for Rainbow Pride Foundation’s Board of Directors, a company limited by guarantee from inception to date. She’s also a former Executive Member of the National Youth Council of the Fiji Islands for 6 years, and sits on the Board of HOPE-Fiji a talent scouting and management agency also from it’s inception to date. No stranger to events, Eroni has also co-coordinated Adi Senikau in 2011, Entertainment director for Miss World Fiji 2012 etc.

Some of Eroni’s most memorable performances have always been around performing with people who have inspired Eroni and for causes that carry empowering messages. Eroni has performed alongside Paulini Curuenavuli, Vanessa Quai & Suzy Vulaca. Eroni’s most treasured performance was performing one of her favourite songs ‘Walk on Walk Strong’ at the Mana Choral Festival in 2012 alongside the sister of Tae Kami and in presence of the Kami Family during which she had just lost her Father to a Stroke.

Eroni’s message to young people is that “In Life offer everything until you have nothing else to give, only then you are ready to transcend to your next gifting” , a legacy she tries to leave behind while travelling/touring around the region.

organisation: Link (Fiji)

Angelica Polmonari
Chair of Women’s Steering Committee
Elected at the ILGA World Conference, Long Beach, May 2022

Angelica Polmonari (she/her) is a jurist and a lesbian transfeminist and LGBTQIA+ rights activist at the local, national and international levels within the major Italian LGBTI+ non-for-profit organisation Arcigay.

Within Arcigay, Angelica has assumed several leadership roles and has been organising local, national and international conferences, workshops, focus groups and training sessions on transfeminism, LGBTQIA+ and all women’s rights, and SOGIESC issues.

Being a human rights expert, Angelica worked as the personal assistant of the former Italian Minister for Integration and MEP of African descent, Ms. Cécile Kashetu Kyenge, at the European Parliament, and has been collaborating as project manager and SDGs expert with an Italian national NGO named IBO Italia. Throughout the last decade, Angelica has been advocating for LBTQIA+ women’s agency and visibility in society and politics by fostering their full participation in public life and decision-making.

Organisation: Arcigay (Italy)

Claire De Leon
Asia representative of the Women’s Steering Committee
Elected at ILGA Asia Conference, Kathmandu, February 2025

Claire De Leon (she/they) is a lawyer working on gender equality and human rights. She has been involved in LGBTQI rights advocacy in the Philippines for over 10 years, previously serving as Executive Director of Babaylanes and as Secretary-General of Lagablab LGBT Network.

Claire previously worked in human rights and transitional justice bodies in the Philippines, including the Human Rights Victims Claims Board and the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, where she contributed to the formation of the Analysis Unit and later headed the Center for Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights.

At present, Claire is working on gender equality policy reform under The Asia Foundation’s Coalitions for Change project. She also serves as the President of the Board of Babaylanes and as a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines Department of Women and Development Studies.

Alina Mirzoyan (she/her) is Human Rights and Advocacy Coordinator at New Generation Humanitarian NGO (NG NGO) in Armenia, where she coordinates projects and different initiatives aimed at the human rights protection and well-being of LGBTI people, sex workers, women and other vulnerable groups of the society.

As NGNGO representative and/or as an individual, she is a member of various local and international networks, coalitions, including the Armenian Working Group of Trans People and Sex workers, ESWA, Global Network of Sex Work Projects, ILGA World Women’s Steering Committee, Systemic Justice: Community of Practice, and more.

Within these networks and at other national, regional and international platforms, Alina is actively involved in the discussion, advocacy and promotion of the rights of LGBT people, women, sex workers, and other vulnerable groups of the society, speaking up and raising the visibility of their issues and problems in the EECA region, including by presenting reports about the issues of LBT women and SOGI-based human rights violations in Armenia at the United Nations’ CEDAW and CESCR.

Organisation: New Generation Humanitarian NGO

Cristina González Hurtado (she/he) is a lesbian feminist activist. She has been involved in the women’s social movement and the LGBTIQ population in Colombia since 2005 as a founder of  Corporación Femm.

She/he did volunteer work as Femm’s general coordinator, contributing to the strategic vision and leading the team of volunteers. She also has formal responsibilities in the areas of project management, administration and accounting.

Her academic background is as an Industrial Engineer and Business Administrator with advanced studies in Governance and Development Management with a Gender Perspective, Project Management and other studies in Quality in the Public Service.

She has more than 10 years of experience in the formulation, development and coordination of social projects.

organisation: Corporación Femm (Colombia)

Keturah Johnson (she/her) began working as a ramp agent at Piedmont Airlines in 2013, a wholly owned regional of American Airlines. Keturah has worked in the aviation industry for over a decade, starting as a ramp agent before moving on to the inflight department and eventually cabin crew.

Keturah is a Combat Veteran, and being of service is second nature to her, so she immediately became active in AFA-CWA. Soon afterward, she was elected the Master Executive Council President of Local 61.

During this tenure, Keturah also secured a historic 100% vote during contract negotiations to strike if negotiations didn’t reach a conclusion soon. After four years and the WORST crisis the Flight Attendant industry had ever faced, Piedmont Flight Attendants ratified a new contract in March 2022.

Since then, Keturah hasn’t stopped making history. On the first day of #PrideMonth in 2022, Keturah began her term as AFA-CWA International Vice President making her the first queer woman of colour and combat veteran elected to serve in the role.

Keturah is passionate about making the aviation industry a safe and inclusive industry that celebrates the diversity of the workers who power it and work to make these spaces safe and supportive for all people, including immigrants, trans people, Black and Indigenous people, and the LGBTQIA+ community so that every person that AFA represents has a voice.

Keturah is the global representative for cabin crew for the International Transport Workers Federation, which represents over 17 million transport workers, including almost a million aviation workers in over 100 countries.

Louisa Hareruia Wall (she/her), Women’s Sub-Committee Chair of ILGA Oceania, has an extensive history of championing gender equity and Indigenous SOGIESC rights. Her commitment to ILGA’s mission of promoting equality, freedom, and justice for all remains at the core of her work in the region.

As a former Member of Parliament, Louisa was instrumental in advancing LGBTQIA+ rights, notably through leading the Marriage Amendment Act, which secured marriage equality in New Zealand. She also served as New Zealand’s first Ambassador for Gender Equality (Pacific), where she collaborated closely with Pacific nations, advocating for policies and programmes that support women’s rights, gender diversity, and LGBTQIA+ inclusion. Through this role, Louisa worked to dismantle systemic barriers to gender equity, increase visibility and acceptance of gender-diverse identities, and enhance access to services for all gender identities across the Pacific.

Louisa’s dedication to gender equity is firmly rooted in her intersectional approach. As an advocate for Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ communities, she works to ensure that Indigenous voices are central to global SOGIESC discussions, bringing attention to the unique challenges faced by gender-diverse people within Indigenous communities. Louisa’s leadership in ILGA Oceania aims to strengthen partnerships, foster solidarity, and promote systemic change across the region.

Gabriel Barahona Escobar
Chair of Youth’s Steering Committee
Elected at the ILGA World Conference, Cape Town, November 2024

Gabriel Barahona Escobar (he/him) is a trans man, graphic designer, activist and human rights defender. Gabriel collaborates at regional and international levels with various platforms and networks of organisations, addressing intersectional issues affecting LGBTIQ+ people — such as human mobility, the situation of people deprived of liberty, enforced disappearances and the systematisation of bias-motivated violence. At the local level, he has developed advocacy strategies and worked with different actors to ensure the legal recognition of the right to identity for trans people in El Salvador.

Organisation: Comcavis Trans (El Salvador)

Festus Alex Chinaza
Youth Steering Committee – Africa

Organisation: Hearty Empowerment and Rights Initiative (Nigeria)

Aabyaz Mustafa
Asia representative of the Youth Steering Committee
Elected during the ILGA Asia Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, February 2025

Aabyaz Mustafa (he/they) is a finance professional, human rights defender and fashion model from Pakistan. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gender Rights Watch (GRW), an international non-profit providing mental health support and suicide prevention services to the marginalised communities across the Global South.

With over a decade of experience in minority rights advocacy, Aabyaz has previously collaborated with Rainbow Railroad during the Afghan-Taliban crisis, helping relocate hundreds of LGBTQI+ Afghan refugees. In Pakistan, Aabyaz played a key role in the passage and implementation of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018, and continues to lead advocacy and policy initiatives for minority rights.

Aabyaz’s passion is driven by an unwavering belief in the power of collective action and resilience. They see progress as a shared responsibility, mobilizing communities, allies, and stakeholders to create a more just and inclusive world.

Outside of the office, Aabyaz enjoys traveling, connecting with nature, and staying active through fitness—a reflection of their belief in holistic growth and well-being.

Organisation: Gender Rights Watch (Pakistan)

Verde Gil Jiménez
Youth Steering Committee – Latin America and the Caribbean

Verde Gil Jiménez (he/him) has been the founder and general coordinator of the Trans Masculinos de Cuba Group (GTMC) since 2023, a nationwide support network that combines community support, empowerment, and advocacy for trans men and individuals assigned female at birth.

Through the GTMC, he promotes a strategy for employment integration and facilitates access to key health and gender-affirming resources. He organised the First and Second National Trans Masculinities Events, held in Santa Clara (2024) and Havana (2025). With a degree in Social Communication, he is vice president of the Chair of Gender and Human Development at the “Marta Abreu” Central University of Las Villas. He has given lectures on queer archaeology, trans health, gender, and trans identities at the university. He has served as a panellist in several editions of the International Colloquium on Trans Identities, Gender, and Culture, and has actively collaborated in the Cuban Days Against Homophobia and Transphobia, promoted by the National Centre for Sex Education.

Verde has conducted research on trans realities across law, education, sport, and the cultural industry. He has also researched trans men’s health, trans parenthood, and trans workplace inclusion. He was a special guest on the course “Addressing Trans Childhoods and Adolescence from a Bioethical and Human Rights Perspective” offered by the Centre for Youth Studies. He participated in the panel “Emerging Issues in Activism and Social Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean” at the International Forum on Activism and Social Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, organised by CLACSO.

His political work is expressed not only in the academic sphere but also through the organisation of cultural spaces that highlight the structural barriers faced by trans people, and through the promotion in Cuba of Trans Visibility Day and Trans Remembrance Day via public, artistic, and community-based actions. He has designed campaigns and educational communication materials such as AhSoyTrans, Uniformes para Todxs, and the Trans Men’s Health Guide in Cuba.

He has actively participated in public debates on the Family Code, the Code on Children, Adolescents, and Youth, the Labour Code, the Health Law, the Civil Registry Law, and the Sports System Law, channelled the demands of the trans community to the National Assembly of People’s Power, and mobilised the participation of trans people in the national political dialogue.

Organisation: Grupo Trans Masculinos de Cuba

Taj Donville-Outerbridge
North America and the Caribbean representative of the Youth Steering Committee

Taj Donville-Outerbridge (they/them) is a Black, queer, multi-award-winning human rights activist, writer, and student from Bermuda.

They are currently pursuing a Double Master’s in Public Administration and Global Affairs at the LSE and University of Toronto. Taj sits on the boards of IGLYO and ILGA North America and the Caribbean, and serves on the WHO Youth Council, where they advocate for the health and rights of LGBTQ+ youth globally.

They previously served as the LGBTQ+ Officer for the UK’s National Union of Students and co-founded Bermuda Pride and The Village, Bermuda’s first LGBTQ+ youth group. Taj is also the youngest-ever Deputy Chair of OUTBermuda and remains a prominent voice on youth civic engagement, anti-racism, and queer mental health across local and international platforms.

Organisation: OUTBermuda

Taufu’i ‘Ae Valu Naufahu
Oceania representative of the Youth Steering Committee

Taufu’i ‘Ae Valu Naufahu (Fui) (he/him) hails from the heart of Polynesia, the only remaining Monarchy in the Pacific, the Kingdom of Tonga.He is a lawyer by profession and holds the title as the President of the Tonga Leitis Association (TLA).

After his appointment as ILGA Oceania Youth Committee Chair, he realized how important to consider the needs and concerns of the youth of Oceania, to ensure that their voices are heard and well represented at both, national and international levels.

His goal is to secure a safe space and security for the youth of Oceania, and to advocate for their rights regardless of who they are.

Organisation: Tonga Leitis Association (Tonga)