African Voices: Well behaved women rarely make history

Well behaved women rarely make history: A Botswana transgender woman made history after filling a monumental constitutional case against the government for refusing to legally change her gender marker. By Miles Tanhira In her High court application against the department of Registrar of National Registration, Tshepo Ricki Kgositau who is the Executive Director of Gender DynamiX, a regional transgender right organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa, argues that the State has a duty to fully realise the constitutional protection of rights and issuing her an identity document Omang) that clearly reflects her gender identity is fundamental to realising her dignity and security as a citizen. She reasons that the refusal to change her gender marker is ultra vires her constitutional liberties to dignity, privacy, freedom of expression, freedom from discrimination, inhumane and degrading treatment and equal protection under the law. In 2011, Kgositau reportedly applied to the Civil and

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