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		<title>Reflections From the Global South: How the Trump Administration Impacts Trans &#038; Intersex People</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/trump-administration-impacts-trans-intersex-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Bonke Sonjani and Mogau Makitla&#160; In commemoration of National Human Rights Day- which took place on the 21st of March 2025, Iranti hosted a panel discussion on How the Trump Administration Affects Trans and Intersex People. We were joined by civil society organisations such as Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), Parents, Families...]]></description>
		
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		<title>PRESS STATEMENTPRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI&#8217;S TRANSPHOBIC POSTSPRESS STATEMENT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PRESS STATEMENT FROM A COLLECTIVE OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE ORGANISATIONS, IN RESPONSE TO NTSIKI MAZWAI&#8217;S TRANSPHOBIC POSTS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 18 JANUARY 2023 . On the 16th of January 2023, Ntsiki Mazwai published a problematic and hurtful tweet asserting the harmful and ungrounded view that women’s rights are threatened by trans rights. She wrote...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Depathologised healthcare crucial for LGBTQIA+ community</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/depathologised-healthcare-crucial-for-lgbtqia-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Violence, institutionalised discrimination and unequal healthcare are just some of the issues the LGBTQIA+ community continuously has to fight. Iranti Executive Director Jabu Pereira points out that building our community in a hostile environment is often difficult. “We are either fighting the medical world and changing their hearts and minds and now we have this...]]></description>
		
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		<title>“We still have people gatekeeping our identities”</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/we-still-have-people-gatekeeping-our-identities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 12:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Welcome Mandla Lishivha Has the Constitution fulfilled its promise of dignity for all? This was the question posed at a “We The People Round Table Series” hosted by Constitution Hill and the Nelson Mandela Foundation on 21 May 2021 on Zoom. The discussion took place twenty-five years after the South African Constitution came into...]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Webseries: Road Trip For Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 07:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In late 2020 and early 2021, members of the Iranti team had the great privilege of traveling across South Africa on a partnership-building and fact-finding mission as part of our ongoing Margins to Mainstream project. The project, which seeks to more effectively document and respond to trans, gender-diverse and intersex rights violations in Gauteng, North...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iranti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2021 14:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MEDIA STATEMENT&#160; 16 May 2021&#160; For immediate release&#160; Lives are at stake: LGBTIQ+ sector awaits promised response from Dept of Justice on hate murders&#160; On 5 May, civil society organisations (CSOs) from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTIQ+) sector met online with the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Ronald Lamola, and other members...]]></description>
		
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		<title>[PRESS STATEMENT] Iranti demands action on attacks on the LGBTI community</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/press-statement-iranti-demands-action-on-attacks-on-the-lgbti-community/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iranti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[15 April 2021 Iranti supports the LGBTI community of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape in their quest for justice for murdered Andile Lulu Ntuthela and their efforts to demand a society that values the lives of all people. The remains of Ntuthela were discovered this week in a shallow grave at the house of the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Iranti hosts media briefing on Home Affairs&#8217;s ID Gender Policy</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/iranti-hosts-media-briefing-on-home-affairss-id-gender-policy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iranti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Monday 8 March 2021, Iranti hosted an online press briefing for invited journalists and media houses to outline the proposed Identity Management Policy gazetted by the Department of Home Affairs. The deadline for public submissions to oidmpolicy@dha.org.za had been extended to 15 March, and with the proposal having already garnered significant attention from the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letter Of Invitation From Iranti To Engage With Podcast And Chill With MacG</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/letter-of-invitation-from-iranti-to-engage-with-podcast-and-chill-with-macg/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iranti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 January 2021 Dear Macgyver “MacG” Mukwevho and Sol Phenduka Iranti – a Johannesburg based organisation dedicated to defending the rights of transgender persons, and the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community as a whole are concerned by the transphobic comments you have made during episode 220 of Podcast and Chill with MacG....]]></description>
		
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		<title>2020’s anti-queer hate crimes continue unchecked</title>
		<link>https://www.iranti.org.za/2020s-anti-queer-hate-crimes-continue-unchecked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Iranti notes with grave concern news reports released in September of the murder of a 14-year-old lesbian girl in Mpumalanga, Zinhle Sekgoapa. Initially kidnapped and held to ransom Sekgoapa was later found dead near a pit-latrine. Her family and the local LGBTQIA+ community are only the latest to be devastated by a wave of homophobic...]]></description>
		
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