Ricki Kgositau
Tshepo Ricki Kgositau-Kanzaa, is trans-rights activist from Botswana who lives in South Africa.
In 2017, she was the first trans women to have her preferred gender identity legally recognised in Botswana.
Personal life[edit]
Kgositau identified as a woman from a young age.[1] In 2011, she requested to have her gender identity correctly noted as female on her Omang (English: National Identify Card) by the Civil and National Registration Office, but they were unable to make the change.[2]
In 2017, the Botswana High Court ordered the government to recognise her gender identify as a woman, making her the first trans women to have her preferred gender identity legally recognised in Botswana.[1]
Kgositau lives in South Africa.[2]
Career and advocacy[edit]
Kgositau is a director at Gender Dynamix trans-rights organisation.[3] She is a trans rights advocate.[1]
Selected publications[edit]
- Liesl Theron and Tshepo Ricki Kgositau, The Emergency of a Grassroots African Trans Archive, Transgender Studies Quarterly 2(4): 578-583, 2015[4][5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Botswana to recognise a transgender woman's identity for first time after historic High Court ruling | The Independent | The Independent". Independent.co.uk. 2021-08-03. Archived from the original on 2021-08-03. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b Camminga, B. (2020-07-30). "One for one and one for all? Human rights and transgender access to legal gender recognition in Botswana". International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law. 1 (1). doi:10.19164/ijgsl.v1i1.993. ISSN 2056-3914. S2CID 225347449.
- ^ SADC Gender Protocol 2018 Barometer. (2018). South Africa: Gender Links. p47
- ^ Camminga, B., Marnell, J. (2022). Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing. p56
- ^ Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, Identities and Politics. (2020). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.