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Africa: Being Transgender No Longer Classified As Mental Disorder
Namibian, 27 June 2018
AS the LGBT community and allies celebrate June as pride month, the World Health Organisation has announced that being transgender is no longer classified as a mental disorder. Read more »
Being Transgender No Longer Classified a Mental Disorder
"The WHO stating that being transgender is not a mental disorder means a great deal," says transgender activist Jholerina Timbo. "It means victory. It means success. It means no one can question our mental capacity, and think or say we are incapable of making decisions because of who we are."
A transgender person. Shawn stands in his bedroom on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda, April 20, 2018.
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South Africa: Transgender Rights - Vital Case Heads to Equality Court
GroundUp, 24 May 2018
The Equality Court in Cape Town will soon hear a groundbreaking case on the rights of transgender prisoners. The court will have to decide whether a correctional facility has to… Read more »
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Uganda: New Masculinities - Meet Transgender Men Fighting Sexism
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 10 May 2018
Shawn, a young transgender man, was sitting in a public minibus in the Ugandan capital, when an old schoolmate boarded and started loudly calling him by his former female name,… Read more »
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South Africa: Intersextion - an Exhibition Steeped in Transgender Sex Work
The Journalist, 30 January 2018
Ostracised from their communities, trans femme sex workers are forced to endure the streets Read more »
