Organizando Trans Diversidades

What Organizando Trans Diversidades does

Organizando Trans Diversidades (Asociación OTD Chile, operating as "OTD Chile") is a Chilean nonprofit association founded in January 2015 by transgender and cisgender-allied persons to defend and promote the human rights of trans and gender-diverse communities in Chile and the broader Latin American region. The organization delivers a portfolio of free community services, including peer counseling and psychological care under a non-pathologizing, rights-based methodology developed since 2014, advisory services on legal rights and gender identity procedures, family support, accompaniment during discrimination and violence cases, and community development programming. Its educational arm, OTEDUCA, offers courses on trans diversity and inclusive democracy, and the organization trains healthcare professionals through formalized agreements with universities and midwifery associations.

Its product surface extends beyond direct services to a set of resource tools: the Mapa Trans (a nationwide map of trans-friendly healthcare centers), the Glosario OTD (a Spanish-language SOGIESC terminology glossary), the Biblioteca (digital library including the Le Trans magazine, billed as Chile's first printed transgender publication), and a published Manual de Consejería entre Pares codifying its peer-counseling methodology. Distribution runs through both online channels (six social platforms, OTEDUCA, the organization's website) and in-person events, most notably the biennial TransFest festival launched in 2015, alongside deep institutional delivery partnerships with Hospital Sotero del Rio, Farmacia Popular de Recoleta, the College of Midwives, Diego Portales University, the University of Chile, and Autónoma de Chile University.

OTD Chile's revenue model is nonprofit and donor-funded: core services are provided free of charge to the trans community, with funding coming from "Hazte socie" monthly membership contributions, individual and organizational donations, and likely institutional grants (none disclosed on the website). No funding rounds, equity raises, commercial products, or paid subscriptions have been disclosed. The organization's strategic significance rests on its regulatory role; it played a direct part in shaping Chile's Gender Identity Law (Ley 21.120), approved by Congress in September 2018 and upheld as constitutional by the Constitutional Court on October 25, 2018, and continues to engage with government bodies on health protocols and prison policy.

Name

Organizando Trans Diversidades

Legal name

Asociación OTD Chile "Organizando Trans Diversidades"

Website

https://otdchile.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

OTD Chile is a Santiago-based nonprofit association founded in 2015 that delivers free peer counseling, psychological care, education, and advocacy services for transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse individuals and families across Chile.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Santiago

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees (Hazte socie): Monthly or periodic membership contributions from supporters who become members (socies) of the association
2. Donations: Single and recurring donations from individuals and organizations supporting the organization's mission

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

OTD Chile is a transfeminist nonprofit association that provides peer counseling and psychological support, educational programs through the OTEDUCA platform, legal advisory services, and community development initiatives for transgender and non-binary individuals in Chile. The organization also publishes digital and printed resources including the Le Trans magazine, the Trans Health Map, a comprehensive glossary, and an online library, while running events such as the biennial TransFest festival.

Product overview

OTD Chile (Organizando Trans Diversidades) operates as a non-profit association offering a portfolio of services focused on transgender rights and community empowerment in Chile. The core offerings include peer counselling and psychological care, education through the Oteduca program with courses on democracy and trans diversity, advisory services, and community development initiatives. The organization provides digital resources including the Trans Map, Glossary, Library, and Le Trans Magazine publication. All services follow a non-pathologizing, rights-based approach emphasizing self-determination and autonomy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Peer Counseling and Psychological Attention (Consejería y Atención Psicológica)

Quantifiable outcome

• 422 counseling attentions provided in 2018 alone
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• College of Midwives and Midwives of ChilecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 August 2019Historic collaboration agreement signed within the framework of the National Day of the Midwife and Matron. The agreement aims to train midwifery professionals based on the experiences and needs of the LGBTQ+ community, addressing the lack of comprehensive vision with a gender approach in clinical care.
• Farmacia Popular de RecoletacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to provide access to affordable medications including hormones for the trans community, addressing barriers to hormone therapy and other essential medications.
• Diego Portales University (UDP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on gender studies talks and academic events. OTD Chile and the Gender Department from UDP organized discussions including 'Can we talk about pride nowadays?' with lawyers and activists.
• University of Chile - Office of Equity and InclusioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint organization of the first Trans Integral Health Day with two tables of specialists in health and activists. The event addressed depathologization in public policies and body modifications for trans people.
• Stonewall UKminorGTM or Marketing PartnerParticipation in the launching of international guide about inclusion at work for LGBTQI+ people produced by Stonewall UK, marking Chile's first inclusion in the guide alongside 27 other countries.
• Movement for Diversity Sexual (MUMS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint collaboration alongside OTD Chile in signing agreements with institutional partners, working together on sexual diversity advocacy.
• Chilean GendarmerieminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFormal letter submitted requesting creation of a work commission to develop trans protocol for Chilean prisons, advocating for the rights of trans people in detention.
• Santiago Regional School of MidwifescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation to train midwifes and midmales at the School of Obstetrics of Diego Portales University on how to work with trans people.
• Hospital Sotero del RiocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHospital gender identity program that received 315+ users since June 2017, with 5 vaginoplasties performed. OTD Chile provides accompaniment and support services to program participants.
• Autónoma de Chile UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with speech-language pathology students working on thesis research with the OTD Chile Investigation Unit, conducting workshops on voice care for transfeminists.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Fundación Iguales: Chilean LGBTQ+ rights NGO focused on legal advocacy, public campaigns, and policy reform. Comparable as a Chile-based, advocacy-oriented nonprofit serving the LGBTQ+ community with similar government and institutional relationships.
• Fundación Todo Mejora: Chilean nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ youth mental health. Overlaps with OTD's psychological care and youth/adolescent program lines, serving a similar community-need area in Chile with comparable nonprofit funding model.
• MUMS (Movimiento por la Diversidad Sexual): Chilean LGBTQ+ rights organization and listed OTD Chile partner. Operates in the same geography and advocacy space with comparable community-service and policy-advocacy functions, most directly competing for the same donor and government-relationship pool.

Regional players

• RedLacTrans (Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Personas Trans): Latin American and Caribbean transgender network coordinating advocacy and rights work across countries. Overlaps with OTD's regional Latin American scope and shared mission, but operates as a multi-country network rather than a single-country service provider.
• ATTTA (Asociación de Travestis, Transexuales y Transgéneros de Argentina): Argentine trans-led organization providing peer support, healthcare access, and legal advocacy. Strongly comparable in service portfolio (accompaniment, health, advocacy) and community-led model, but operates in a different country, providing a regional reference point for scaling.

Broad incumbents

• ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association): Global federation of LGBTQ+ rights organizations with UN consultative status. Provides international advocacy, research, and capacity-building that frames the macro environment in which OTD Chile operates, overlapping in policy and movement-building functions.
• Transgender Law Center: US-based legal advocacy organization advancing transgender rights through litigation, policy, and community organizing. Functionally comparable to OTD's rights-based advocacy and legal accompaniment work, scaled to the US context.
• Human Rights Campaign (HRC): Large US-based LGBTQ+ civil rights advocacy organization. Overlaps in policy advocacy, community education, and rights-based programming, but operates at national scale in the US rather than the Chilean context.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OTDChile
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/Asociaci%C3%B3nOTDChile
• Facebookfacebook.com/OTDChile
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/otdchile
• Instagraminstagram.com/otdchile
• TikToktiktok.com/@otdchile

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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