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Guest Speakers
The guest speakers in order of the programme:
Estian Smit
 Estian Smit is a Phd Student at the University of the Western Cape. Estian works on issues of body diversity and South African Law. Estian was also involved in the 2003 parliamentary process in an effort to make the "Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act" a more transgendered-friendly piece of legislation.]
Christine Botha
Christine (Name changed) discovered during a life-long search that her struggle with gender issues was not a psychological, spirtual or social one, but in effect a physiological one.
Sally Gross
 Sally's life has been one of many struggles to transcend boundaries and stereotypes. Sally was born intersexed, a term used to cover a range of conditions in which one cannot be neatly defined as one sex or the other.
Despite this ambiguity, Sally's family raised her as a male. Sally's struggle was not only against Apartheid - which forced her to flee the country, but also gender demands from her Jewish faith, later on Catholic Prieshood.
When Sally wanted to return to South Africa, her ambiguous gender caused such confustion for the Department of Home Affairs that it took 15 months of pressure to have her passport and ID re-instated, or even to get official confirmation that she had been born ...
Lincoln Theo
 Lincoln is the core course convenor at AFDA, the South African School of Motion Pictures and Live Performance Medium, and also qualified and practiced as an attorney.
He then worked in the film industry for some years, and submitted his masters dissertion on "Whitness and Maleness" through UCT's African Studies Department. He is preparing his PhD proposal in film narrative.
Dr Eve
 Dr Eve (website: www.dreve.co.za) is a couple and sex therapist and clinical sexologist in private practice, who did her Doctorate in Human Sexuality in San Francisco.
She presents papers on aspects of human sexuality and relationships at national and international conferences and seminars. She has run workshops in Kenya and Nigeria. She is also particularly devoted to doing workshops with the youth throughout South Africa.
Dr Eve holds a post as part-time lecturer at the Medical School of the University of Cape Town. She continues into her 11th year in radio and was nominated "Woman of the Year"in the Health Category in 2002. She publishes articles in national and international academic journals and is consulted as expert by local as well as international magazines.
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