Rep. Tom Hooker last week introduced a bill that would outlaw the use of public funds to pay for sex reassignment surgery for incarcerated people, among others. Hooker didn't bother checking with the ...

A transgender Johannesburg Correctional Centre inmate has turned to the Equality Court to enforce her rights to express her gender identity and to be addressed as a woman using the "she/her" pronoun.

Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will appear before the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, sitting as the Equality Court, on Friday to represent a transgender woman challenging what she deems the ...