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Out of testosterone, out of hope — trans men face second year of hormone shortage

The shortage of the version of testosterone used by state facilities and nonprofits has left transgender men in South Africa with few options

Zano Kunene

Statistics South Africa fieldworkers use their tablet computer devices as they prepare to conduct surveys on homeless people during the population and housing census at Marabastad in Pretoria on February 2, 2022. South Africans will be counted digitally for the first time from 3 February to March 2022 as part the fourth census since the of end of Apartheid. – South Africa will overnight Wednesday launch its once-in-a-decade population census to collect data that will help the government’s policy formulation and planning, the statistics agency has said. (Phill Magakoe /AFP via Getty Images)

Nonbinary? SA’s census excludes you

In legal history male terminology shifted after centuries to include females, but now we need to use nonbinary pronouns to include sexual identity

Johann van der Westhuizen