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Sass Rogando Sasot

Since 2001, as she was about to turn 19, Sass has dedicated herself to the LGBT Rights movement in the Philippines, most specifically to issues of gender identity and freedom of gender expression. James Green, an international transgender rights activist, served as her mentor via email. She started giving discussions on transgender rights and issues in Luneta Park in Manila. In December 2002, she co-founded the Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP). In 2003 & 2004, together with Drs Sam Winter and Mark King of the University of Hong Kong, she did the first comprehensive study on transgender women in the Philippines. The study has been published in the International Journal of Transgenderism. In 2009, she was one of the LGBT activists invited to speak in a historic United Nations General Assembly side-event at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In 2013, she received the ECHO Award, given annually to excellent and promising migrant students in the Netherlands. In 2014, she received the Harry Benjamin Distinguished Education and Advocacy Award from the World Profession Association for Transgender Health. A nomadic spirit, Sass loves to write, walk, read, cycle, and cook. Together with the love of her life, Sass is currently based in The Hague, The Netherlands. She graduated with a Combined major in World Politics & Global Justice, minor in International Development (Magna cum Laude) at Leiden University College, which bestowed her the 2014 Global Citizenship Award. She is a contributing writer on TG issues for the mag, through The Activist. Sass.Rogando.Sasot@outragemag.com

Stories By Sass Rogando Sasot

Editor's Picks10 years ago

On the men who fancy us

Many continue not to be accepting of the love between transgender women and their men. Sass Rogando Sasot takes a closer - and personal - look.
Editor's Picks11 years ago

Male in the Philippines, Female in Germany

A look at the life of a transpinay, Jenny T. Ramsey, who currently has two legal sexes and two legal names from two different countries.
Op-Ed11 years ago

Questioning Transphobia

Speaking at the United Nations, Sass Rogando Sasot notes that "the sincerity of our intention to address the human rights violations against transgender people rests upon...
Editor's Picks11 years ago

But eating shellfish is also an abomination…

Sass Rogando Sasot on the extreme right's penchant for selectively using verses in the Bible to advance only their ways of seeing.
Editor's Picks11 years ago

Boy, (Un)Interrupted

James Roque was interviewed by Sass Rogando Sasot after he, initially, balked at the idea. And so here is the story of a Filipino who found...