Why Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand deserve to compete (and win) at Rio 2016
The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s suspension of regulations on hyperandrogenism – a medical condition that causes an excessive amount of testosterone in the body – cleared the track for Indian sprinter Dutee Chand and other female athletes, including South Africa’s Caster Semenya, to compete at the Rio Olympics this year. Semenya is the favourite […]
Traditional healers show that being gay is African
Zipho Mzayiya, 24, became a traditional healer two years ago. He is also gay. “Being initiated to become a traditional healer is not fun and games. It is hard. No one would do it for fun,” he said. His parents encouraged him to become a sangoma because they believed he had a calling. Mzayiya spoke […]
Aww! Another same-sex Olympic marriage proposal in Rio
British race walker Tom Bosworth has become the second LGBT athlete in a same-sex marriage proposal at the Rio Olympic Games. Bosworth posted a picture on Twitter on Monday that showed him on bended knee proposing to his boyfriend Harry Dinley on Copacabana Beach. The 26-year-old track and field star captioned the image with: “He […]
Transgender may be removed as mental disorder
The process of getting transgender declassified as a mental disorder took its first steps with a study conducted in Mexico City. The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal last month, found that the distress and dysfunction experienced by transgender people were more strongly related to the social rejection and violence they experienced than by […]