{"id":2053,"date":"2005-01-01T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:32:33","slug":"2005-intersex-rights-included-in-legislation-for-the-first-time-worldwide-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/2005-intersex-rights-included-in-legislation-for-the-first-time-worldwide-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"2005 \u2014 Intersex Rights Included in Legislation for the First Time Worldwide, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov.za\/legislation\/acts\/2000-004.pdf\">The Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, Act 4 of 2000 <\/a><\/em>(PEPUDA), which is sometimes referred to as <em>The Equality Act<\/em>, was passed by the South African government in 2000 to protect its citizens from discrimination, hate speech, and harassment. Following the work of LGBTIQ+ activists, PEPUDA was amended in 2005 and became the first legislation in the world to include \u201cintersex\u201d within the legal definition of &#8216;sex&#8217; as <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2526a0ea5112e12ad9fa3cc10e6b85e0\"><em>\u201ca congenital sexual differentiation which is atypical, to whatever degree.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/afraf\/article\/112\/449\/646\/100712?login=true\">This definition of intersex<\/a> reflects the work of activists as it is almost identical to the recommendation submitted to the court by<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/the-first-african-intersex-organisation-formed-south-africa\/\"> Intersex South Africa (ISSA)<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp;ISSA\u2019s founder, Sally Gross, advocated for and worked passionately towards this inclusion. One of the major accomplishments by activists in the amendment to PEPUDA was to insist that &#8216;intersex&#8217; be self-defined, removing it from medical definitions and interventions or the forced surgeries that often accompany legal definitions of &#8216;sex.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, Act 4 of 2000 (PEPUDA), which is sometimes referred to as The Equality Act, was passed by the South African government in 2000 to protect its citizens from discrimination, hate speech, and harassment. Following the work of LGBTIQ+ activists, PEPUDA was amended in 2005 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,39,33,41],"tags":[393,47,221,392,55,45,27],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-community","category-intersex","category-legislation","tag-equality-act","tag-intersex-society-of-south-africa","tag-issa","tag-pepuda","tag-promotion-of-equality-and-prevention-of-unfair-discrimination-act","tag-sally-gross","tag-south-africa"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4407,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}