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Yasemin Öz w is a human rights lawyer/defender, feminist and LGBTI+ activist for 27 years. She is co-founder and vice chair of Kaos Gay and Lesbian Association (Kaos GL) and member of several feminist organizations in Turkey. She received the Felipa de Souza Award of IGLHRC (International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission-OutRight based in New York) in 2013. She was accepted to the Sakharov Fellowship of European Parliament in 2018. She was selected to UN Women LGBTI Informal Reference Group in 2017. She has many research studies articles and publications on human rights published nationally and internationally.

Born to Muslim and Hindu parents on the island paradise of Bali, Indonesia, Yasmine began animation as the only teen in a family of five children, and accompanying the traditions of the island, took on the Islam religion of her father. At the first age of 17, Yasmine began her transformation, starting with makeup and eventually began hormone therapy and grew her hair out. Exposing herself publicly as a transgender woman (waria) resulted in losing the support of her father and his family, but her mother and her extended family have stayed by her side and continue to support her and keep a shut relationship. Leaving her family at the demand of her father meant a hard life full of struggles, one lived primarily on the streets, where Yasmine had few employment options and began sex work in order to support herself and endure alive. Yasmine worked on the streets of Bali for 15 years before finding a job at a beauty salon, a change that would be just the beginning of many in her animation journey.

It was in the northern port town of Singaraja, far from the picturesque beaches and luxury hotels, that Yasmine began her community o