„I was born male but I am an intersex person, i.e. a person with xx chromosome. I was different from other children since my childhood. Everybody noticed that in the family, the more so that I was most different from 8 siblings (of which 4
„I had an apartment in the city, which we mortgaged during the crisis years, but we failed to repay the loan and lost it. So my husband and I moved to this village, where we stay through the whole year. People, tourists like here and
I am a fourth-year student of Tbilisi State University. I would hardly be able to study at the university unless I had support from my family. We are from Kutaisi. My family moved to Tbilisi when I went to school. Initially the handbook of the Georgian
„I was 12 years old when I realized my sexual orientation. I tried hard to keep it secret. I retired into my shell trying to hide everything. I found that rather hard…I found it hard to realize and find my own self. Although everything seemed
„I was in the third month of pregnancy when I was widowed. I was too young when my son was born. They family helped me in bringing up the child but I used to work a lot: I worked in a greenhouse. After working hours
(A lawyer, who works with a team of scouts to promote micro and small enterprises as part of the state program Enterprise Georgia. Christine is a democracy and education activist). „Discrimination based on gender has been so inherent to our everyday life that society seems to
The stories and the challenges that are told by the modern women from Georgia on this page, were in fact first written and talked about by the women living as early as a century ago. Most of you are probably familiar with them - the
"The family has never restricted my freedom or made me stay at home. Quite the opposite, as soon as I started walking I went out and have been out ever since. But I had some problems with finding a job. I sent my job applications
"I first realized it at the age of eight or nine, when I discovered that I developed ‘strange’ feelings towards girls. I was a smart child and of course, I started to rationalize it. What is happening and why is it happening to me? I