Sanjar Kurmanov is a trans activist and the executive director of LGBTIQ organization Labrys. Since joining Labrys as a volunteer in 2008, Sanjar has been involved in LGBT activism in Kyrgyzstan and Central-Asia. He is a member of Trans* Coalition on the post-soviet region. Since 2015 he is lobbying the legal gender recognition procedure in Kyrgyzstan. In december 2017 he was able to achieve a great changes of procedure change of gender marker in partnership with friendly medical specialists.