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Transgender Day Of Remembrance 2015

PRESS STATEMENT Today, the 20th of November, we come together for the 17th time to morn our brothers, sisters and others who have been killed as a result of transphobia as we commemorate International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). We aim to raise public awareness and bring to its attention the violence, hatred and discrimination…

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Intersex invincibility with the work of intersex human right

PRESS STATEMENT Today 26 October marks Intersex Awareness Day. On this day intersex activist from Intersex Society of North America and allies from Transsexual menace held the firs intersex demonstration in Boston back in 1996. Intersex means being born with a mix of anatomical sex traits (chromosomes, genitals and/ or reproductive organs) that are not…

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A Response to “Frustrations of a transgender man”

Posted on October 30, 2013 on ikanyiso.org here As Transgender and Intersex (TIA) we have decided to respond to an article that appeared on the Inkanyiso website on the 13th of October 2013 titled “Frustrations of a transgender man”. The reason for the response is because we felt that as a transgender and intersex organisation, we are clearly implicated in the article.…

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Dr Collin

Remember the fight we had with Doctor Collin last year? How he refused to issue a referral letter to one of his trans* patients so that the person can apply for a new Identity document with the Department of Home Affairs? How he only issued the letter once we intervened and yet the letter was…

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New Voices in Psychology

Check out Volume 8 of New Voices in Psychology, a peer-reviewed journal published by UNISA. TIA’s director Tebogo Nkoana submitted a chapter titled “Engaging primary health care providers in transgender community health care: observations from the field” http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/unipsyc

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A Win Against Transphobia in the Workplace

Finally after much struggle and lobbying, one of our constituents who is a trans* woman has been employed by a large retail store in South Africa. She had been struggling to get a job because of the discrimination she faced as a transgender person. We are constantly flooded by queries from people who are about…

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To Conform or Not To Conform?

For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to fit in, to be “normal” and be a part of a clique or group of people who accepted me. There was a point in my life where my desire to be accepted by others outweighed my desire to live, a point where I…

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