Fr. Mark Hodges
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GABORONE, Botswana, December 19, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A judge has ordered the Botswana government to approve transgenderism by officially recognizing a man as a woman.
In what is being widely touted as a “landmark” case in favor of transgender normalization, Botswana High Court Judge Leatile Dambe ruled that President Ian Khama’s administration must legally acknowledge Tshepo Ricki Kgositau, a 30-year-old male, as female. He is to be issued a new identity card with his gender listed as a “woman” by the end of this year.
Last year, Kgositau, the director of the transgender activist organization “Gender Dynamix,” had sex “change” surgery in Thailand. He told the Independent his fight for legal recognition as the opposite sex is just the beginning of demanding “more access to all other rights.”
Homosexual lobby organization Legabibo’s Anna Mmolai-Chalmers confirmed that the legal recognition of a man as a woman is just “the first step” and will “reform public opinion.”
Last month, the Botswana High Court ruled the government had to recognize a transgender woman-to-man’s gender change. With the Kgositau male-to-female ruling, the government must admit both sex “changes” equally.
Kgositau first brought his case
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