{"id":3639,"date":"2017-12-12T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:51:25","slug":"12-december-2017-tshepo-ricki-kgositau-wins-case-to-change-gender-marker-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/12-december-2017-tshepo-ricki-kgositau-wins-case-to-change-gender-marker-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"12 December 2017 \u2014 Tshepo Ricki Kgositau Wins Case to Change Gender Marker, Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">12 December 2017 \u2014 Tshepo Ricki Kgositau Wins Case to Change Gender Marker, Botswana<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2017, Batswana trans woman, Tshepo Ricki Kgositau (former Executive Director of <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/july-2005-gender-dynamix-gdx-founded-south-africa\/\">Gender DynamiX<\/a><\/em><\/strong>) won her <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/trans-woman-tshepo-ricky-kgositau-sues-the-state-for-the-right-to-gender-marker-change-botswana\/\">2011 case<\/a> against the Civil and National Registration office in Gaborone, Botswana to\u00a0change her documentation in the national register from male to female. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transadvocate.com\/african-voices-well-behaved-women-rarely-make-history_n_20580.htm\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ricki-Kgositau_2-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3642\" style=\"width:1076px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ricki-Kgositau_2-1.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ricki-Kgositau_2-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ricki-Kgositau_2-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ricki-Kgositau_2-1-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 December 2017 \u2014 Tshepo Ricki Kgositau Wins Case to Change Gender Marker, Botswana In 2017, Batswana trans woman, Tshepo Ricki Kgositau (former Executive Director of Gender DynamiX) won her 2011 case against the Civil and National Registration office in Gaborone, Botswana to\u00a0change her documentation in the national register from male to female. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,39,41,32],"tags":[92,163,54,253,254],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-community","category-legislation","category-trans","tag-botswana","tag-gdx","tag-gender-dynamix","tag-ricki-kgositau","tag-tshepo-ricki-kgositau"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5927,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/5927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}