In September 2009, the South African Film and Publications Board banned the intersex film XXY* on the grounds that they believed the film portrays child pornography. The Spanish film with English subtitles was produced by an Argentine filmmaker and tells…
Trans Bantu Zambia (TBZ), was formed on 14 September 2008 to bring about an end to discrimination against the trans community in Zambia. It is a youth-led non-profit organisation whose development objective is the improvement of the socioeconomic, political and…
Gender Dynamix (GDX)’s Tebogo Nkoana and Liesl Theron delivered presentations at the Gender Odyssey Conference in August 2008. The proposals were accepted and Liesl, who was already in previous contact with the University of Washington Associate Professor, Amanda Lock Swarr,…
On 2 June 2008, Daisy Dube, a gender-variant person, and four friends who self-identified as drag queens, went out clubbing in the evening in Yeoville, Johannesburg. Men outside the club called them izitabane,* referring to their gender identity. In resistance,…
2008 — Founding of the Support Initiative for People with Atypical Sex Development (SIPD), Uganda Founded by Julius Kaggwa in 2008, the Support Initiative for People with Atypical Sex Development (SIPD) was formed in Kampala, Uganda to create awareness and…
The African Regional Sexuality Resource Centre (ARSRC) invited Gender DynamiX (GDX) to be their guest on 17 April 2008 at the “Beginning of a Global Dialogue on Transgender Rights” discussion. The meeting took place in New York and was hosted…
The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) Feminist Institute in Maputo, Mozambique invited Gender DynamiX (GDX) to do a presentation on “Understanding Transgender” on 26 February 2008. This request was a result of the raised interest in trans understanding in Africa…
2008 — Matrix Support Group (MSG) / People’s Matrix Association Established, Lesotho The Matrix Support Group (MSG), also known as the People’s Matrix Association, was established in Lesotho in 2008. Although the NGO caters to the whole LGBTIQ+ community throughout…
Originally founded in 2000 as the Intersex Society of South Africa (ISOSA) by Sally Gross, Intersex South Africa (ISSA) came into being in 2008, when Sally renamed the organisation. After Sally’s death in 2014, ISSA was housed by Iranti, founded…
Gender DynamiX (GDX) attended the ARC International conference in Johannesburg in December 2007. This was the first time that ARC held a conference in Africa, and it was at this conference that many self-identified trans people from other countries and…
September 2007 — Historic Claiming of Space for Trans People Within the African LGBT Movement: The Nairobi Trans Declaration, Kenya Before Victor Mukasa sought asylum in the USA, in fear for his life, he was flown to Nairobi, Kenya, by…
Gold medallist Paralympian, Tshotlego* Morama (now Paul Morama) from Botswana underwent gender verification tests in August 2007 after a win in the 800m and 400m races at the Africa Senior Championships in Mozambique. There had already been a media spectacle…
2007 — Formation of Rainbow Identity Association (RIA), Botswana Skipper Mogapi and a handful of self-identified trans and intersex persons formed a support group in Botswana in 2007 that would later be known as the Rainbow Identity Association (RIA). The founding of…
July 2007 — House of Rainbow and Gender DynamiX Reach Out to Nigerian Trans Women, Nigeria In 2007 Nigerian Reverend Jide Macaulay from House of Rainbow attended the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) meeting in Johannesburg.…
Between 2007 and 2022, legal advocacy for intersex person in Kenya saw massive strides. Strategic Action Litigation (SAL) is a process in Public Interest Law whereby members of a marginalised group deliberately and proactively take a test case to court…
In May 2007, the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) hosted a conference in Johannesburg with the aim of establishing an organisation affiliated with them on the African continent — a Pan Africa ILGA (PAI). PAI is a federation of…
In February 2007, Gender DynamiX (GDX) held a trans-awareness workshop with staff from The Inner Circle, later known as the Al-Fitrah Foundation, in Cape Town, South Africa. The Inner Circle was founded by the world’s first openly-gay imam, Muhsin Hendricks…
South Africa’s Gender DynamiX (GDX) was the first African organisation to become a member of WPATH in 2007. In August 2014 GDX and Cape Town’s Groote Schuur Hospital’s Multidisciplinary Transgender Clinic collaborated in their efforts to submit a bid to…
On 31 October 2006, Alexandra Rubera was granted asylum in South Africa. Rubera, a trans woman from Burundi, faced arrest and death threats from private citizens and the police in her native country on an ongoing basis. Alexandra moved between…
On 25 February 2006, Kenyan-born Biko Beauttah arrived in Canada to seek asylum because being considered homosexual is a criminal offence in her home country. Biko left Kenya a few years prior to attend college in the USA. Having come…
