The Transsexual/Transgender Allies Website is the first Trans Website created by Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS). The site is for East and Southeast Asian Trans women, East and Southeast Asian communities and their allies.
Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) is a charitable, non-profit, community-based organization. It provides HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and support services to the East and Southeast Asian Canadian communities. These programs are based on a pro-active and holistic approach to HIV/AIDS and are provided in a collaborative, empowering, and non-discriminatory manner .
The website will provide information, resources, list of agencies and links that provide information and services to the Trans community. The website focuses on the East and Southeast Trans women but they also caters to Trans people from different ethno-cultural background. The site will provide knowledge to Trans People by combining interesting facts from a variety of countries in Asia, personal anecdotes of Trans people involved in politics and religious organizations and stories of celebrities. We hope to inspire not only the Trans community but also for those who visit this site that Transsexual/Transgender people are making a difference in their lives and their communities by sharing the stories of their journey within the mainstream society.
The website will share stories of real Transsexual/Transgendered people living their daily lives and taking different career path. The website will also share the tales of women who had gone through hardships, discrimination and stigmatization in order to become the succuessful women they are today.
"We Transgendered Women are made beautiful, talented, intelligent, loving and human.
We all deserve to be treated as equals and with respect. For, that in Society who looks down upon me, and the rest of us, I tell them, that I and all of us is a child of God, a child of the Universe. We, have the right to be here, a right to live with Dignity and Grace, to be accepted and respected by the rest of Humanity."
A quote from an Asian Transgendered Woman living in the U.K.
