Transgender – Iranti

PRESS STATEMENTPRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI’S TRANSPHOBIC POSTSPRESS STATEMENT

18th January 202313th April 2023 IrantiLeave a Comment

PRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI’S TRANSPHOBIC POSTS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 18 JANUARY 2023 . On the 16th of January 2023, Ntsiki Mazwai published a problematic and hurtful tweet asserting the harmful and ungrounded view that women’s rights are threatened by trans rights. She wrote…

Depathologised healthcare crucial for LGBTQIA+ community

14th September 202114th September 2021 IrantiLeave a Comment

Violence, institutionalised discrimination and unequal healthcare are just some of the issues the LGBTQIA+ community continuously has to fight. Iranti Executive Director Jabu Pereira points out that building our community in a hostile environment is often difficult. “We are either fighting the medical world and changing their hearts and minds and now we have this…

“We still have people gatekeeping our identities”

24th May 202124th May 2021 IrantiLeave a Comment

By Welcome Mandla Lishivha Has the Constitution fulfilled its promise of dignity for all? This was the question posed at a “We The People Round Table Series” hosted by Constitution Hill and the Nelson Mandela Foundation on 21 May 2021 on Zoom. The discussion took place twenty-five years after the South African Constitution came into…

New Webseries: Road Trip For Change

17th May 202117th May 2021 IrantiLeave a Comment

In late 2020 and early 2021, members of the Iranti team had the great privilege of traveling across South Africa on a partnership-building and fact-finding mission as part of our ongoing Margins to Mainstream project. The project, which seeks to more effectively document and respond to trans, gender-diverse and intersex rights violations in Gauteng, North…

Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders

16th May 202118th May 2021 IrantiLeave a Comment

MEDIA STATEMENT 16 May 2021 For immediate release Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders On 5 May, civil society organisations (CSOs) from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTIQ+) sector met online with the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Ronald Lamola, and other members…

[PRESS STATEMENT] Iranti demands action on attacks on the LGBTI community

16th April 202116th April 2021 IrantiLeave a Comment

15 April 2021 Iranti supports the LGBTI community of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape in their quest for justice for murdered Andile Lulu Ntuthela and their efforts to demand a society that values the lives of all people. The remains of Ntuthela were discovered this week in a shallow grave at the house of the…

Iranti hosts media briefing on Home Affairs’s ID Gender Policy

12th March 202116th May 2021 IrantiLeave a Comment

On Monday 8 March 2021, Iranti hosted an online press briefing for invited journalists and media houses to outline the proposed Identity Management Policy gazetted by the Department of Home Affairs. The deadline for public submissions to oidmpolicy@dha.org.za had been extended to 15 March, and with the proposal having already garnered significant attention from the…

Letter Of Invitation From Iranti To Engage With Podcast And Chill With MacG

27th January 202119th April 2021 IrantiLeave a Comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 January 2021 Dear Macgyver “MacG” Mukwevho and Sol Phenduka Iranti – a Johannesburg based organisation dedicated to defending the rights of transgender persons, and the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community as a whole are concerned by the transphobic comments you have made during episode 220 of Podcast and Chill with MacG….

2020’s anti-queer hate crimes continue unchecked

6th October 202010th December 2020 IrantiLeave a Comment

Iranti notes with grave concern news reports released in September of the murder of a 14-year-old lesbian girl in Mpumalanga, Zinhle Sekgoapa. Initially kidnapped and held to ransom Sekgoapa was later found dead near a pit-latrine. Her family and the local LGBTQIA+ community are only the latest to be devastated by a wave of homophobic…

JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER DR AARON MOTSOALEDI AND THE TRANS ACTIVIST COALITION

21st September 20203rd February 2021 IrantiLeave a Comment

21 September 2020 The Minister of Home Affairs Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and Trans Activist Coalition today held a first and fruitful meeting in Pretoria in which the parties discussed various matters of mutual interest. The Trans Activist Coalition included representatives of Iranti, Gender DynamiX, Be True 2 Me, Triangle Project, Same Love Toti, Access Chapter…