Joe Wong

Joe Wong, born in 1984, is a transgender man originally from Singapore and currently living in Bangkok, Thailand.

Wong works as the Program Manager of the Asia-Pacific Transgender Network (APTN), responsible for media awareness, communications, partnerships, and oversight on regional programs in Asia and the Pacific. He is particularly interested in advocacy for HIV/AIDS, health and rights especially of transmen, whose needs have been largely neglected.

Wong's personal experience echoes that of transgender people in the region, who have felt humiliated, intimidated, and excluded, and sometimes had their identity exposed against their will. He worked with several UN agencies and been active in planning advocacy events across the region. Wong is the first transgender man on the APTN board, bringing visibility and awareness to the movement around the region, amplifying voices of transgender people who have been largely neglected in Asia.

=See also=


 * Transgender people in Singapore
 * Singapore transgender organisations

=References=


 * "Joe Wong", People, Salzburg Global.

=Acknowledgements=

This article was written by Roy Tan.