by Ligavha Murineni During my varsity years, I used social media to follow transgender people in the corporate world, and all their stories made me see my post-varsity life as a nightmare rather than an attainable dream. Despite having been an issue in the corporate space long before my time, the prejudice and discrimination faced…
by Gosego Monoane Trans erasure simply means that “we the people”, transgender people, are being erased effectively from public awareness merely due to assumptions that everyone is cisgender, or that transgender people are rare. I identify as a rural transgender woman of colour, I use the term rural because I would like to distance myself…
By Keabetswe Makhotla and Nomsa Manzini. As a transgender woman, having to go to a healthcare facility can be daunting, not only to get what I’m looking for, like medication and regular check-ups, but because I receive hostile treatment from the medical professionals employed to provide patients with healthcare. In addition to the hostility in…
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….
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