 Environmental human rights defenders across the globe are upholding human rights and promoting knowledge and practices that ensure the environment and people's well-being. Among defenders, women especially strive towards more equitable outcomes of mobilization, building on their individual and collective experiences of inequality. Gender-biased laws, policies and norms affect women's daily lives and their environmental mobilizations. By denouncing and overcoming these challenges, women and environmental human rights defenders actively challenge unequal power structures. Thus, they contribute to transformative resilience, resilience of communities to prepare for external shocks and tackle the internal shocks from pre-existing inequalities. Therefore, it is crucial for actors to support the defenders' efforts and together contribute to transformative resilience.