" The leading organization that best understands transgender woman. “ HISTORY
COLORS was formed in early 2006 as a campus organization.
It was formerly known as The Coalition for the Liberation of Other Rising Sexes. It was aimed to unite LGBT students, to be formally recognized in the university and to address the issues of its community in the campus such as imposition of male uniform, “no cross dress” and hair cut policy. Since it failed to be approved in its application as a registered school organization, the organization slo
wly set aside by the founder and their members.On the other hand, the founder’s group of transgender friends is gradually growing. They usually meet in color-themed parties. Some of them perceived to formalize the group and give its unique gathering as socially relevant. On October 23-25, 2010, the founder and some friends were invited by an NGO (TLF SHARE for UNDP) for organizational development training and made its first launch to other GBT sectors to be the Coalition for the Liberation of the Reassigned Sex. After the training, planning was carefully laid out in preparation for its formalization. On October 31, 2010, it was launched during the 4th Annual Halloween event of the group wherein it was immediately embraced and the first election was held. The NAME
The founder chose a name that is appropriate and that best represent the organization and its members. The name COLORS was deliberately picked because it is synonymous to diversity and happiness. It represents the members’ variations of personality, background, status, belief and perspective. In 2006, it was known as Coalition for the Liberation of Other Rising Sexes where “other rising sexes” indicates the LGBT to be other existing labels/distinctions in the dichotomy of legal sex. During the training in 2010, the founder decided to make the organization exclusively for transgender and replaced “Other Rising Sexes” to “Reassigned Sex” to emphasize a transgender organization. Reassigned Sex denotes two meanings in Biological and legal aspects. The former exemplifies a transgender designating some physical changes such as enhancements/alterations of its body but not necessarily undergoing SRS. The latter pertains to the change of legal sex in alignment to the gender identity of the transgender.
