SA LGBTIQ+ Rights Watch: August 2022
mambaonline.comOUT LGBT Well-being in collaboration with MambaOnline publish a monthly overview of violations of the rights of LGBTIQ+ people in South Africa.
We also look at the status of cases making their way through the criminal justice system. Here is our summary for August 2022. South African poet and artist Ntsiki Mazwai caused a firestorm on social media in early August when she tweeted to her more than 360,000 followers: “Being a gay man does not qualify you to be a woman….
Youre a gay man…… That’s that. Please stop trying to erase us.” The post generated dozens of homophobic and transphobic comments in support of Mazwai’s views, with some applauding the poet for being “brave” enough to echo their sentiments.
Many repeated the narrative that gay men are trying to be or “impersonate” women, asserted that gender is binary and immutable, and rejected the validity of transgender identities.
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