A message from Gender DynamiX board member - gorgeous woman with a transgender past!

Dear Friends

Radio Today Outspoken is South Africa's only national radio broadcast service dedicated to LGBTI matters. By default it may also be Africa's only registered, free airwaves emission, broadcasting from in an African country. It operates from the Radio Today, a non-profit community radio services, with studios based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
 
This evening's Radio Today Outspoken programme, 31 January 2011, will be dedicated to the murder/assassination of David Kato, with featured interview by Monica Mbaru of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission on the matter as well as comments from a few organisations including Dawie Nel of the organisation OUT based in South Africa

Additionally captivating are our two in-studio guests Mr Gay World 2010, Charl van den Berg and Mr Gay Pretoria (South Africa's Capital City, Jaco Joubert our two principal ambassadors of RTO's It Will Get Better Campaign

Live audio streaming would be the best way to tune in for international listeners viz

www.1485.org.za -

We also broadcast in South and Southern Africa on
DSTV Audio 169 - South and Southern Africa
AM - 1485 - Johannesburg only

Simone Heradien - Presenter
Yolan Moodley - Presenter
Frank Malaba - Anchor

http://www.you.co.za/articles/Local/Oh-boy-life-is-great

Huisgenoot/YOU article about a Transgender teenager who took on a battle with his school. 

Transgender people constitute a marginalised minority, present in virtually all societies, in all parts of the world. Their marginalisation is often accompanied by persecution, discrimination, humiliation, ridicule, exclusion, and often violence. Unlike many other marginalised minorities in developing and transitional countries, their numbers are very few, with estimates ranging from 0.25% to 1%

The larger society often will not tolerate transgender people’s efforts to be authentic to their own Gender identity consciousness. In many developing and transitional countries, governments as well as social and religious institutions and the general public are openly hostile to the entire lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, and know little or nothing about the “T” in LGBT.

The UN Economic and Social Council (EcoSoc) has recently granted Consultative Status at the United Nations to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). The organisation became the 10th organisation working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) human rights to gain this status.

This concession by the UN means that IGLHRC can participate in a more formal way by attending meetings, submitting statements and especially collaborating with the UN and governments in the international human rights arena. Executive Director of IGLHRC Carey Johnson welcomed the decision, saying it was an affirmation that the voices of LGBT people have a place at the UN as part of a vital civil society community:  “The clear message here is that these voices should not be silenced and that human rights cannot be denied on the basis of sexual orientation or Gender identity.”