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Victory for Johannesburg Transgender Prisoner Who Wins Right to Hormone Therapy:
The Equality Court in Johannesburg rules that withholding gender affirming care to a transgender prisoner amounts to unfair discrimination.
Dozens of Organisations Join Sex Work Decriminalisation Court Case:
LGBTQ+ rights groups are among several organisations admitted as friends of the court in a sex work decriminalisation court case in Cape Town.
Judge Slams Home Affairs for “Unintelligible, Illogical Babble” in Gay Asylum Case:
The High Court has overturned a Home Affairs official’s decision to reject the asylum application of a man from Chad who was imprisoned for homosexuality.
Court orders church to pay transgender woman R600,000 in damages:
A transgender woman who was subjected to a humiliating genital test by members of her church has been awarded R600,000 by the Equality Court.
Gay couple’s struggle to marry in Richards Bay:
A same-sex couple have struggled for over a year to formalise their same-sex partnership at the Richards Bay Home Affairs office.
What’s the limit for free speech? Concourt to hear Qwelane case:
Civil society organisations have made submissions on both sides of the Jon Qwelane hate speech matter in a landmark Constitutional Court case on hate speech.