Anastasiia Yeva Domani
Anastasiia Yeva Domani is a Ukrainian LGBT+ activist and co-founder of Cohort, a Ukrainian transgender rights organisation.
Early life
She was born on 1 February 1979 in Kyiv, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union, to a family with one other brother. She began presenting actively as a woman in 2000 when she went on work trips outside of Ukraine, prior to this she had only presented in private.Before transitioning, Domani worked as a sports journalist and was a noted supporter of football club Dynamo Kyiv.. She also worked in Poland for three years, developing a personal clothing brand for tights, and upon returning to Ukraine ran an online store.
Activism
After realising that she was trans, she began organising local gatherings of other trans people. In 2017, she began working for LGBT+ rights organisation Insight. In 2020, she co-founded Cohort. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cohort has provided humanitarian, financial, and medical assistance to transgender people during the war across major cities like Dnipro and Odesa, among others. The organisation has received funding from the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights and GATE, but also more recently since the war they organisation has received donations from Outright International and ILGA-Europe.She is also a representative of the transgender community to the Ukrainian National Council on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis.