Community Consultation Workshop KZN
Rania Jordan, the HIV/AIDS Programme Officer at Gender DynamiX, recently facilitated a community consultation workshop in Pietermaritzburg. The workshop took place at the Nolumbo community centre; it was done in partnership with the Gay and Lesbian Network which services the Pietermaritzburg and Durban areas. This workshop forms part of a broader AFSA (AIDS Foundation of South Africa) funded project, that focuses on HIV prevention and education, creating awareness of sexual and reproductive health rights across the transgender community in South Africa, especially in the rural and isolated areas.
The community consultation workshop is our first of two visits to the area. At this workshop we concentrated on |
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Empowering The Eastern Cape’s Trans People
By Leigh-Ann van der Merwe
Early morning of 21 April I, Leigh Ann van der Merwe and Charlie Takati departed from the Cape Town International Airport to East London. The flight had been delayed so we sat down to some coffee to discuss our strategy for this outreach effort. Most of the candidates invited to this workshop were mobilised by our ally, the contact person for this workshop and also president of the Executive for the Eastern Cape Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organization in East London, Zamanguni Mzimela.
A great deal of work had gone into the planning of this workshop. A large part of the groundwork was done by me in consultation with Charlie Takati and former Outreach Officer at Gender DynamiX, Tebogo Nkoana. Since it was the Easter period, Charlie and I, being originally from the Eastern Cape, the suggestion was that |
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What are you?
A report by Transgender Sex Workers Cape Town SA
Partnership:
Transgender Sex Workers Cape Town, SWEAT and Gender DynamiX
Authors: Robert Hamblin and Estian Smit
Transgender Sex Workers Cape Town is a support group for transgender women sex workers. The group was established in 2011 and currently consists of a small group of very committed transgender (male to female) women. Most of them are homeless.
The group was initiated by SWEAT in consultation with Gender DynamiX. The distinction of transgender women from male sex workers is important with regards to the drive to address autonomy and self determination of transgender women’s issues. Current HIV programming mistakenly invisibilises and usurps transgender women’s identities within the category of MSM (men who have sex with men)
SWEAT (Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce) is an organisation that advocates for the decriminalisation of adult sex work in South Africa, addresses health and human rights abuses with sex workers and supports their self-representation in issues affecting them.
Gender DynamiX is a human rights organisation promoting freedom of expression of  Gender identity and advocating for the rights of transgender, transsexual and gender non-conforming people.
Abstract: This report acknowledges that transgender women sex workers face similar challenges as female bodied and male sex workers concerning criminalisation, stigma and access to HIV-related services, but wishes to highlight the compounded stigmatisation and added challenges that transgender women experience. These challenges are deeply rooted in the constructs of a society dependant on stereotypical gender identities. These identities are rigidly attached to binary biological sex categories. Laws and other systems are organised around these categories and exclude gender variant people to the point of non-citizenship. Persons who do not conform to these constructs are punished with violence and exclusion. (quote Annabel). Transgender sex workers find themselves bearing the brunt of society’s violence and prejudice against those who transcend its decrees concerning sex and gender. This report draws on three focus group discussions with ten transgender sex workers from Cape Town, South Africa. |
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“I asked my mother if there was a hospital that could change me. She told me I was God’s creation and I would live as a girl my whole life. It was painful but I had to accept it”. This is the story of Xola from Langa-East in Cape Town. Like most transsexual men (transman) he grew up feeling bad about his body, “wearing dresses was a punishment”. People call him a lesbian, but Xola doesn’t like that because he says he is a man. |
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