The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual people are recognised by many nations including South Africa, but a rise in homophobia is challenging these rights
Let us celebrate this event together and move towards a fully inclusive world.
In legal history male terminology shifted after centuries to include females, but now we need to use nonbinary pronouns to include sexual identity
LGBTQIA+ organisations have accused Stats SA of being discriminatory for excluding transgender, non-binary and intersex categories in a question relating to sex
But Seoketsi Mooketsi is cautiously hopeful that the home affairs department’s proposed new ID policy will soon restore her non-binary identity
Disclosure, a Netflix documentary examines the world’s transphobic legacy as portrayed in film and television from as early as 1901
‘We have come to expect discrimination from world athletics bodies. Witness the ongoing battle to force Caster Semenya off the track’
Lauren Foster and Monique Walker found themselves in a conservative but developing industry
Cosmetic surgery on intersex children, without their consent, exposes social bias
Their necks are twisted, their bodies are crushed for muthi and their mothers are told they were stillborn
Germany’s top court Wednesday required parliament to recognise a "third gender" from birth.
Malume Ngwenya, activist with Intersex Advocacy of Zimbabwe speaks to Carl Collison about being intersex and how that effected family relations.
South Africa has raised its concern over intersex genital mutilation with the UN. Now it’s a matter of practising what it preaches at home.
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/ 30 October 2013
Germany will allow babies born with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female.
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/ 22 September 2009
An intersexed Kenyan has applied to Kenya’s constitutional court to be released on the grounds that he belongs in neither a jail for men nor women
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/ 20 September 2009
Sophia Grootboom and Karabo Keepile spoke to two intersexed Africans whose sexes were wrongly identified at birth.
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/ 19 September 2009
The Caster Semenya row has focused interest on intersex rights, and while the Constitution offers intersexed citizens protection, it was not always so