{"id":5310,"date":"2014-01-18T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:18:00","slug":"18-january-2014-trans-woman-rikki-nathanson-sues-police-and-others-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/18-january-2014-trans-woman-rikki-nathanson-sues-police-and-others-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"18 January 2014 \u2014 Trans Woman, Rikki Nathanson, Sues Police and Others, Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January 2014, Rikki Nathanson, a Zimbabwean trans woman and modelling agency director was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/dan-littauer\/trans-issues-zimbabwe_b_4672516.html\">detained by police*<\/a> after Farai Mteliso, a Zanu-PF Youth League leader, performed a citizen\u2019s arrest on her. She was arrested for being a \u2018criminal nuisance\u2019 because she visited a bar in Bulawayo, dressed as a woman, and allegedly used the bathroom reserved for female patrons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following her arrest she was humiliated by being forced to undress in front of five police officers to \u2018prove her gender\u2019 to them. She was also forced to undergo a physical examination to assert her gender. Rikki transitioned in 2005,&nbsp;9 years prior to her arrest.&nbsp;After her arrest, she was detained for two days in appalling conditions and released after a Magistrate ruled that prosecutors<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mamba.lgbt\/2014\/02\/04\/zim-trans-woman-toilet-case-dismissed\/\"> failed to prove the charges of \u2018Criminal Nuisance\u2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a>After her release, she filed a lawsuit against the police, other government officials and the man who called the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rikki-Nathanson_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rikki-Nathanson_1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rikki-Nathanson_1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rikki-Nathanson_1-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rikki-Nathanson_1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rikki-Nathanson_1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rikki Nathanson, recipient of the AHEA (Appreciation for Activists and HRDs in East Africa) Award in 2024. The award is an initiative established by a trans-led organisation in Tanzania under its founder Ms Clara Devis, the Executive Director of Tanzania Community Empowerment Foundation (TACEF).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\"><sub>* Some articles in the media will refer to Ricky. As of 2022 she formally changed her name to Rikki, and the TIHA website respects the name Rikki chose.<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Rikki Nathanson on Empowering Identity: The Case for Self-Determined Legal Gender Recognition\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z2dkTzkeun0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2014, Rikki Nathanson, a Zimbabwean trans woman and modelling agency director was detained by police* after Farai Mteliso, a Zanu-PF Youth League leader, performed a citizen\u2019s arrest on her. She was arrested for being a \u2018criminal nuisance\u2019 because she visited a bar in Bulawayo, dressed as a woman, and allegedly used the bathroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,39,32],"tags":[550,126,549,50],"class_list":["post-5310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-community","category-trans","tag-farai-mteliso","tag-rikki-nathanson","tag-zanu-pf","tag-zimbabwe"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5310"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5327,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions\/5327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}