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t. e. The Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act, 2003 (Act No. 49 of 2003) is a South African Act of Parliament which allows a person to change, under certain conditions, their sex recorded in the population registry. Under the act, three types of people may apply to the Department of Home Affairs for a change of the sex description ...
Kgositau lives in South Africa. Career and advocacy. Kgositau is a director at Gender Dynamix trans-rights organisation. She is a trans rights advocate. Selected publications. Liesl Theron and Tshepo Ricki Kgositau, The Emergency of a Grassroots African Trans Archive, Transgender Studies Quarterly 2(4): 578-583, 2015
LGBT rights in South Africa. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in South Africa have the same legal rights as non-LGBT people. [ 1 ][ 2 ] South Africa has a complex and diverse history regarding the human rights of LGBTQ people. The legal and social status of between 400,000 to over 2 million lesbian, gay, bisexual ...
v. t. e. The legal status of transgender people varies greatly around the world. Some countries have enacted laws protecting the rights of transgender individuals, but others have criminalized their gender identity or expression. In many cases, transgender individuals face discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, and other areas of life.
In 2014, Amnesty International released a report titled The state decides who I am: Lack of Legal Gender Recognition For Transgender People in Europe. [18] In the report, Amnesty argued that many European countries had legal gender recognition laws that were based on stereotypical gender norms and that violated individuals' rights to "private and family life, to recognition before the law, to ...
Busi Kheswa. Busi Kheswa is an oral historian as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist from South Africa. She is most notable for directing the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW). [1] FEW works to promote and protect the rights of LBT women in South Africa.
the Women's Legal Centre (WLC) Ayanda Denge (1982 – 24 March 2019) was a South African trans woman and sex trafficking survivor. She was an advocate for transgender people, sex trafficking survivors, and for the abolition of prostitution. [1] She was the chairperson of the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT).
Same-sex marriage has been legal in South Africa since the Civil Union Act, 2006 came into force on 30 November 2006. The decision of the Constitutional Court in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie on 1 December 2005 extended the common-law definition of marriage to include same-sex spouses—as the Constitution of South Africa guarantees equal protection before the law to all ...