 Tebogo Calvin Nkoana shares his experience as a trans‐man in South Africa, and how his calling from the Ancestors has given him an experience different to other transgendered people.
He shared his life story at the Gender Odyssey Conference in Seattle, WA, United States on 30 August 2008.
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02 August 2008
Melody Brandon WEEKEND POST REPORTER
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NATIONAL Women‘s Day next week will be her third annual celebration of being a woman for Christina Engela, who was born male. And despite being ridiculed, rejected and misunderstood, she hopes to assist others like herself on their tough road to happiness.
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NGO Update: Gender DynamiX
 The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, lntersex community- LGBTI to the initiated-have little support on the African continent. But that is changing, as The Big Issue discovered.
BY CHRISTINA SOLANO
Big Issue #133
27 June 2008
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 The African Regional Sexuality Resource Centre (ARSRC) invited Liesl Theron, director of Gender DynamiX to be their guest during the Beginning a Global Dialogue on Transgender Rights discussion. The meeting is hosted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force . The paper presented in New York on 17 April 2008 was extracted from this article.
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If they see
Breasts and long hair coming
They call it woman.
If beard and whiskers
They call it man;
But, look, the self that hovers in between
Is neither man nor woman.
Devara Dasminayya
(Indian Devotional Saint, tenth century)
When the United States of America was colonized, and transsexual Native Americans discovered, some of the documented language used to describe them was “sinful, heinous, perverted, nefarious, abominable, unnatural, disgusting, lewd” (Feinberg 1996, pg 22). That was a long time ago and I wonder if we’ve come very far in our beliefs? It’s this question and that of society’s impact on the mental health of transgendered people that I would like to look at.
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