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30 January 2023: Book Review — “Envisioning African Intersex”, by Amanda Lock Swarr

“Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine” by Amanda Lock Swarr (Associate Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, University of Washington) was published 30 January 2023 and is a groundbreaking work that challenges entrenched scientific and social norms about intersex individuals, particularly within the context of South Africa. Swarr meticulously …

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June 2020 — Kakuma Refugee Camp: Refugees Approach Victor Mukasa Again, Kenya

In June 2020 the Ugandan LGBTQIA+ refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp reached out to activist Victor Mukasa, saying “Victor, we are dying, we are dying in the refugee camp”. Not much had changed since the last time Victor had worked with the refugees in 2014, even though global activists and organisations had become involved. …

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2017 — The Proposal of The Intersex Model Law, South Africa

The Intersex Model Law, proposed in 2017, was a draft law that the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria put together with the aim of protecting the rights and well-being of intersex individuals. The law was developed in response to historical injustices faced by intersex individuals, therefore crucial for addressing issues such …

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2016 — Publication of “Ending Pathological Practices Against Trans and Intersex Bodies in Africa”

In 2016, South Africa’s Iranti, as well as the Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE), Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN), Stop Trans Pathologization 2012 (STP) team, and Transgender Europe (TGEU), hosted a workshop to share knowledge and learning and to form advocacy strategies against the pathologisation of trans and intersex people in Africa based on …

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August 2015 — An Intersex Report is Launched in East Africa

In August 2015, a report on violations to children and people born intersex or with differences of sex development was launched in an East African country airing the most revolting abuses and violations that intersex people experience. The report is titled, “Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Both a Form of Societal Control”. …

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2 June 2014 — Declaration on Gender Incongruence of Childhood (GIC), South Africa

The Cape Town Declaration on Gender Incongruence of Childhood (GIC) was publicly released in June 2014, requesting the removal of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnoses that pathologise gender diversity in children and youth.  The Declaration was issued by a working group of 40 delegates from 11 countries who met …

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29 June 2014 — Kakuma Refugee Camp: Kuchu TV Broadcast Contextualises Violence, Kenya

In an important series of 5 episodes aired on 29 June 2014, LGBTQIA+ rights activist, Victor Mukasa, provided context to the violence in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, using his TV platform, Kuchu TV. The episodes highlighted that the central issue for LGBTQIA+ refugees in the Camp was the violence perpetrated against them because they were …

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1 December 2013 — Third International Intersex Forum

The Third International Intersex Forum took place on 29 November 2013 in Valletta, Malta and concluded on 1 December 2013. With the initial 3 principles decided on at the first Forum, and then extended during the second Forum, the ongoing work document evolved into the Malta Declaration at this third Forum.  The Malta Declaration was …

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2013 — Trans Bantu Zambia Self-Publish First Trans Short Story Book in Zambia

We Exist, published by Trans Bantu Zambia in 2013, is a self-publication that serves as a powerful platform to give voice to the often marginalised and overlooked transgender community in Zambia. Through a collection of 21 short stories and poems, the book seeks to recognise and validate the existence of trans community members in Zambia. …

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1 November 2012 — “Sex in Transition” Launched, South Africa

The publication, Sex in Transition: Remaking of Gender and Race in South Africa, by Professor Amanda Lock Swarr, published on 1 November 2012, takes the reader through the Apartheid times of South Africa, and how the lives of those who lived across or in between the gender binary system were impacted. It also explores how …

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18 April 2010 — African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration, Kenya

On April 18, 2010, a small group of activists from across Africa held a roundtable discussion in Nairobi, Kenya, during which they drafted the African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration, which is also known as the Queer African Manifesto/Declaration. According to the Black Agenda Report, the Manifesto/Declaration is “a short but foundational document, the manifesto was produced at a moment …

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20 November 2009 — Launch of “Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa”, South Africa

On 20 December 2009, The Gay and Lesbian Archives (GALA) and Gender DynamiX (GDX) launched the book, Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa, in Cape Town, South Africa. It was first book of its kind on the continent. The specific date was selected as it is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). The …

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August 2009 — Caster Semenya: Gold Medals, Gender Verification Tests, and Her Journey Since Then, South Africa

In August 2009, the world was introduced to South African track athlete Caster Semenya as she won the 800m World Championships in Berlin, Germany and simultaneously came under public scrutiny over her eligibility to compete in women’s sport.

She improved on her 800m and 1500m records achieved at the 2008 World Junior Championships. The International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), now known as World Athletics, asserted that it felt compelled to carry out investigations on Semenya’s performance and sex after she improved her record by 25 seconds in the 1500m track event, and by 7 seconds in the 800m track race. They claimed that “this sort of dramatic breakthrough usually aroused the suspicion of drug use.”

1992 — Commencement of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, South Africa

The Births and Deaths Registration Act, Act 51 of 1992 prohibited transsexual* people from having their sex status amended in the Births and Deaths Register unless they could provide proof that they were in their transition process prior to 1992.  As such, from 1992, no new transitions were legally allowed.  Transsexuals’ sex transitions** were encouraged …

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