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The size of South Africa’s LGBTI market — comprising lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people — contributes at least R250 billion to the economy every year. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Ubuntu is for all people including the LGBTQ+ community

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…

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OPINION | Pride month: Social attitudes still have a way to go

Let us celebrate this event together and move towards a fully inclusive world.

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

Out for the count: A team from Statistics South Africa counts the transient population as the 2022 census kicks off with census night in Marabastad, Pretoria, on 2 February. (Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images)

2022 census discriminates against LGBTQIA+ community

LGBTQIA+ organisations have accused Stats SA of being discriminatory for excluding transgender, non-binary and intersex categories in a question relating to sex

While Pride Month is commemorated at different times across South Africa, the month of June carries particular significance as the original Pride Month in the Northern Hemisphere. File Photo

Trans woman still waiting six months later for SA ID document

But Seoketsi Mooketsi is cautiously hopeful that the home affairs department’s proposed new ID policy will soon restore her non-binary identity

Laverne Cox as seen in the new Netflix documentary, ‘Disclosure’. (Ava Benjamin Shorr/Netflix.)
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The things Hollywood taught us to think about trans existences

Disclosure, a Netflix documentary examines the world’s transphobic legacy as portrayed in film and television from as early as 1901

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Editorial: We stand behind you, Caster

‘We have come to expect discrimination from world athletics bodies. Witness the ongoing battle to force Caster Semenya off the track’

Just another pretty face: Lauren Foster, who became the first trans woman to be honoured as a Woman of Empowerment by Variety, doesn’t agree with brands that use trans models to seem cool or because it’s trendy. (Courtesy Lauren Foster Facebook)

SA’s pioneer intersex and trans models

Lauren Foster and Monique Walker found themselves in a conservative but developing industry

‘Surgery conducted on most intersex infants is cosmetic: its aim is to bring the appearance of the body into line with established gender norms’

Doctors shouldn’t define the norm

Cosmetic surgery on intersex children, without their consent, exposes social bias

‘Secrecy about intersex infanticide could

Intersex babies killed at birth because ‘they’re bad omens’

Their necks are twisted, their bodies are crushed for muthi and their mothers are told they were stillborn

Lawyers at the lawyers at the Centre for Health

Germany’s top court requires legal option of ‘third gender’

​Germany’s top court Wednesday required parliament to recognise a "third gender" from birth.

Participants in a gay pride rally in Uganda in 2014 sport rainbow flags and an umbrella in the same colours.

​Cast aside at birth for being intersex

Malume Ngwenya, activist with Intersex Advocacy of Zimbabwe speaks to Carl Collison about being intersex and how that effected family relations.

‘Sebidi is just one of the many intersex people across South Africa who have been — and continue to be — subjected to intersex genital mutilation
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SA joins the global fight to stop unnecessary genital surgery on intersex babies

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.

Not male, not female: Germany gives newborns a third sex option

Germany will allow babies born with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female.

Kenyan challenges state over prison facilities

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

‘I’m human, I’m not from Mars’

Sophia Grootboom and Karabo Keepile spoke to two intersexed Africans whose sexes were wrongly identified at birth.

intersex and the law

The Caster Semenya row has focused interest on intersex rights, and while the Constitution offers intersexed citizens protection, it was not always so