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

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

Kgositau is a director at Gender Dynamix trans-rights organisation. ^[3] She is a trans rights advocate. ^[1]

Selected publications

• 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

1. "Botswana to recognise a transgender woman's identity for first time after historic High Court ruling | The Independent". Independent.co.uk . 2021-08-03. Archived from the original on 2021-08-03. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
2. 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.
3. SADC Gender Protocol 2018 Barometer. (2018). South Africa: Gender Links. p47
4. Camminga, B., Marnell, J. (2022). Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing. p56
5. Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, Identities and Politics. (2020). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.