Since March this year, Iranti partnered with the Department of Home Affairs to do Road Trips around the country to assist transgender and intersex persons by bringing name change and gender marker change services directly to the community. Although the South African laws such as the Alternation of Sex Description and Sex Status Act (Act…
On 31 March 2022, as part of the Transgender Day of Visibility celebration, Iranti partnered with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to invite trans and gender diverse people living in Johannesburg to come to the House of Iranti where DHA officials were on site, providing assistance and information with forename and gender marker amendments….
PRESS RELEASE28 MARCH 2022 Iranti welcomes cabinet’s approval of the Identity Management policy which seeks to ensure the protectionof the rights of Transgender, Intersex and Non-Binary persons. South Africa!s Constitution defines equality as“the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and liberties”. We are pleased that the Department of Home Affairs is proposing a progressive…
This year, academic, activist and friend of Iranti, B Camminga, became the first openly trans person from the African continent to obtain their PhD. Their research project culminated in the publication of a book entitled “Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies”. The book, Camminga uses the stories…
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