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UCT Vice-Chancellor apologises for events “hurtful” to LGBTIQA+ community

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UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng has formally acknowledged that two recent events that she hosted were damaging to the LGBTIQA+ community. Phakeng came under fire from gender rights groups for hosting a webinar on 5 September featuring Dr Kgomotso Mathabe, a practising urologist and a member of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital’s Gender Clinic.

The online event – titled What does science says about LGBTQA+ – was criticised for pathologising and medicalising LGBTIQA+ indentities and presenting gender and sex binaries as the desirable norms.

This, the groups argued, perpetuates “the gatekeeping of psychiatry and the medical intention of ‘correcting Trans bodies’ and diagnosing Trans persons as

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