Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group (WISG) http://women.ge/en Natia Gvianishvili is a lesbian feminist activist and researcher from Georgia. She represents Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group (WISG), a feminist organisation working on LGBT issues with a special focus on lesbians, bisexual women, and transgender persons. She is one of the founders of the Independent Group of Feminists. In 2012 she received a Master’s degree in Gender Studies. She worked on WISG’s LGBT Discrimination Study (2012)5, where she authored the chapter on the situation of transgender people, and in 2014 she prepared a separate qualitative study on the Situation of Transgender Persons in Georgia6. “ This project has been one of our first close partnerships with Transgender Europe. It allowed us to participate in the 6th European Transgender Council, in several events with trans rights activists from all over Europe and Central-Asia, and we were also able to introduce a system of monitoring of transphobic incidents in our country. This cooperation has been extremely important because we are able to highlight transgender issues more in our work and find ways of ” empowering the transgender community living in Georgia. 5 Available at: http://women.ge/en/2012/12/28/lgbtdiscriminationsurvey/ at: http://women.ge/en/2015/02/25/transgenderstudy/ 6 Available