Present and Powerful Global Trans Conference 2027

Present and Powerful Global Trans Conference 2027 brings together 250 trans and gender diverse activists and stakeholders from around the world to Panamá City from 15-17 September 2027, jointly organized by GATE and ITF.

Across the world, trans and gender diverse communities are facing escalating attacks, including anti-gender opposition, democratic backsliding, shrinking civic space, misinformation, violence, and restrictions on access to health, legal recognition, safety, and basic rights. At the same time, trans-led movements continue to build powerful solutions, defend democracy, advance gender justice, and create new models of care, solidarity, and resistance.

The attacks on trans movements are global, coordinated, and well-resourced. Our response must be too. In Panamá, ITF and GATE will bring together trans and gender diverse activists from across the world to collaborate and define what comes next on our own terms.

Present and Powerful Global Trans Conference 2027 will gather 250 trans and gender diverse activists and stakeholders from around the world for peer learning, strategy-building, advocacy alignment, and collective care. The Conference will include interactive and participatory spaces, panels, workshops, skill-building sessions, strategy conversations, and creative formats led by and for trans and gender diverse movements.

This conference is an affirmation that we are not only here and visible in this critical historical moment, but also organized, strategic and building sustainable movements that cannot be erased!

This Conference will build on the momentum of Unite! Advocate! Thrive! Global Trans Conference 2024 and create space for global trans and gender diverse movements to deepen solidarity, analyze current threats and opportunities, and develop coordinated advocacy and movement-building strategies.