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Protruding manhood exposes gay activist

 

January 21, 2014 Shingirai Huni Local News

Court Reporter
A PROTRUDING manhood underneath a female dress exposed a gay activist who had entered a female toilet to relieve himself.
Ricky Nathanson, 48, a well known gay activist from Barham Green suburb was handed over to police by members of the public on Thursday evening after they caught him in a female toilet at Palace Hotel in the city centre.
Nathanson appeared in court on Saturday facing criminal nuisance charges.
An informant told the police that she noticed Nathanson’s manhood through his dress which was transparent.
Nathanson is known for wearing female dresses and make-up and is reported to have openly admitted to being gay.
Nathanson who was not asked to plead to the offence and was remanded out of custody, will be back in court today.
Prosecuting, Paida Zengeni told how on Thursday at about 5.50PM Nathanson entered the female toilet intending to relieve himself.
While inside, some patrons who were drinking beer at the hotel noticed that he was a man and raised alarm.
Farai Mteliso, who informed the police, led a citizen’s arrest and they took Nathanson to Bulawayo Central Police Station.
The court was told that the police referred Nathanson to the United Bulawayo Hospital where it was proved that he is a transgender and biologically male resulting in criminal charges being laid against him.
Eveline Mashavakure presided over the matter.
Homosexuality is illegal in Zimbabwe and President Mugabe is on record saying those who practise it are worse than dogs.
 

"I'm gay because my voodoo spirit is female"

Genderdocufilmfest 2010

L'Esprit de Madjid
Togo, 2009

Written, produced, directed and edited by Ines Johnson-Spain

Cinematography by Jochen Heilek, Ines Johnson-Spain, Marco Villalobos

Featuring Bonfoh Mandjirou, Ayana V. Jackson

Length: 55 minutes
Format: Colour, Mini-DV, 1:1.33, Stereo
Language: French with English subtitles

Interview

Images
Ines Johnson-Spain,
director

L'Esprit de Madjid [Madjid's spirit]

Madjid, an African boy, discloses his homosexuality amid collective voodoo ceremonies and his job as a hairdresser. Suspended between the legacy of voodoo tradition and Africa's social changes, Madjid finds his own identity without denying any of them. Both an intimate interview and an ethnological reportage, L'Esprit De Madjid gives the floor to an extraordinary character and offers a unique glimpse on integration.

Interview at the Gender DocuFilm Fest
Giona Nazzaro, artistic director of GDFF, talks to Ines Johnson-Spain, director, editor and producer of L'Esprit de Madjid, during the screening on Thursday August 26.

Giona: Ines, could you tell us something about the genesis of your documentary, and above all when and how did you meet Madjid, the extraordinary main character of your film.

Ines: First of all, thank you again for inviting my film. Unfortunately I have to say that African films are very rarely presented at film festivals, and also in gay film festivals. I would have loved Madjid to come here but unfortunately he couldn't. I met him in 2006 for the first time, I was shooting in Togo, West Africa, with some people for a different project. By coincidence he was friends with some neighbours of us, so we became friends too. I just was attracted with his special personality and we started to talk at length, and quite soon I started to ask him if we could shoot a film. We actually started shooting with him without really knowing what he wanted to do, but he was very curious about filming, and he sort of got the feeling of directing himself the shooting. Quite soon the subject of voodoo came up and he was talking a lot about his relationship with his spirit and how the spirits define his self-understanding. He would have never said that he is a homosexual man, for him homosexuality is a western concept he doesn't really feels home with. He always said that he is a man with a certain femininity, that's how he used to say. For me it was very interesting to hear these explanations, as a result of a ghost he is in contact with.

Giona: Your film is twofold: at first you interview Madjid and then you follow him at the voodoo ceremony, as if you were filming a ethnologic documentary. How would you describe your film?

Ines: For me filmmaking is a process in which you are confronting a subject, or a person, who is entering your life, in this case my life, and it defines how the film will be developing itself. In this case my main focus was always Madjid, and the documentary approached the voodoo theme because of him. He decided this himself, and he invited us to go to the ceremony. I myself would have never set to make a film about voodoo. And it is not at all a film about voodoo, it is a film about a young man in Togo. The film presents just one way of living in Africa, besides the subjects of hunger, war and other topics that are normally in the media. For me it was very interesting to open up a universe in this single person, to tell something about Africa and about the way of living of somebody who is maybe a little outside society and on the other hand well included in the tradition of voodoo.

Documentaries in competition 2010
L'Esprit De Madjid

Pakistan Recognizes Third Gender

Late on Wednesday, the Supreme Court in Pakistan ordered that the government officially recognize a separate gender for Pakistan's hijra community, which includes transgendered people, transvestites, and eunuchs. The court told the federal government to begin allowing people to identify as hijras when registering for a national identity card.

Such cards are necessary for everything from voting to more informal situations; patrons must present the card at cybercafes before surfing the Internet, for example. Not having an identity card, or having one with incorrect information, leaves a person vulnerable and easily excluded from society.

In India, voters are required to identify their sex both on their voter ID cards and at the polls. The insistence that they identify as male or female effectively barred many transgendered and transvestite people from the polls until late this year, when the government declared that for the purposes of voting it would recognize a third option.

The ruling in Pakistan, though, potentially reaches much further.

In addition to the order for government recognition, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry also issued a warning that the hijras' rights of inheritance, which are often informally ignored, would be enforced, and that police harassment would not be permitted, a sign, perhaps, of rulings to come.

WB man changes sex to marry partner, gets ditched

Siliguri (WB), June 26: Egged on by his gay partner to go for a sex change so that they could marry, a man undergoing the process found to his dismay that his partner showed no interest in him any more nor could he return to his original self now.
Feeling betrayed, Dipu Ghosh lodged a complaint to the police who are now looking for Ajit Mondal, Dipu's estranged partner, officer-in-charge of New Jalpaiguri Police outpost, Pankaj Thapa said in Siliguri on Thursday.

Dipu, a resident of Rangapani near Siliguri, alleged in the complaint that Ajit had convinced him to go for a gender change and get married. He has been in the process for the past three months but his counterpart was now avoiding him.

It was not not clinically possible for Dipu now to get back his original male form, albeit effeminate.

Ajit was absconding and his parents claimed to have no no knowledge of their son's homosexuality, Thapa said. They

say, it is a plot against their innocent 23-year-old son.

Dipu came in contact with Ajit two years ago and they developed a homosexual relation. Later, with the help of local eunuch community, Dipu went to Mumbai and started working as a bar-girl. He now earns a modest amount.

"Money is not not a problem for me. I am ready to give Ajit everything, a beautiful life.... (I'll) fulfill all his dreams. But he has no right to insult my love," he told a local television channel.

WB man changes sex to marry partner, gets ditched

Siliguri (WB), June 26: Egged on by his gay partner to go for a sex change so that they could marry, a man undergoing the process found to his dismay that his partner showed no interest in him any more nor could he return to his original self now.
Feeling betrayed, Dipu Ghosh lodged a complaint to the police who are now looking for Ajit Mondal, Dipu's estranged partner, officer-in-charge of New Jalpaiguri Police outpost, Pankaj Thapa said in Siliguri on Thursday.

Dipu, a resident of Rangapani near Siliguri, alleged in the complaint that Ajit had convinced him to go for a gender change and get married. He has been in the process for the past three months but his counterpart was now avoiding him.

It was not not clinically possible for Dipu now to get back his original male form, albeit effeminate.

Ajit was absconding and his parents claimed to have no no knowledge of their son's homosexuality, Thapa said. They

say, it is a plot against their innocent 23-year-old son.

Dipu came in contact with Ajit two years ago and they developed a homosexual relation. Later, with the help of local eunuch community, Dipu went to Mumbai and started working as a bar-girl. He now earns a modest amount.

"Money is not not a problem for me. I am ready to give Ajit everything, a beautiful life.... (I'll) fulfill all his dreams. But he has no right to insult my love," he told a local television channel.

Third gender option in TN college forms

The Times of India
(also appeared in TOI New Delhi of 14th May, 2008)
14 May 2008, 0622 hrs IST,Radha Venkatesan,TNN

COIMBATORE: After providing ration cards and welfare board for transsexuals, the Tamil Nadu government, for the first time in the country, has officially opened the Arts and Science colleges to the third gender. In a unique concession for them, all the government and aided colleges will admit them as "transgenders" and they will share 30% of the seats reserved for women. The State Directorate of Collegiate Education in its newly-designed application form for the degree courses in all its colleges has included the transgender as a separate category. Under the column "sex", the application forms now provide three options: Male, Female and Transgender. Till now, transsexuals managed to enrol in colleges only as males, though it went against their gender preferences. However, this year, the transsexuals can join any Arts and Science colleges, be it co-educational or men’s or women’s colleges, as a "thiru nangai" (Tamil name for transgender). "Transgenders can join any Arts and Science college retaining their status as transgenders," the Joint Director of Collegiate Education, Coimbatore region, Dr D Rudrappan told TOI. Government colleges here say they would admit any transgender who applies regardless of their merit. "We will give them special consideration and admit them regardless of the marks they have scored in the class XII exam," said N Yesodha Devi, principal of PSGR Krishnammal College for Women. For transsexuals like Divya Krishnan, who have been waiting for this "special recognition" for a few years now, it is a dream come true. "I have been wanting to join the teacher training institute for the past two years. But my application has been rejected consistently. This year, I will get admission." A diploma holder in Electronics and Communication, Malavika, said she was forced to study in a men’s college, where she was "teased and harassed" by the college boys.

Former man and wife remarry as two women

By Stephen Adams
Telegraph.co.uk
(also came in Times of India, New Delhi)

2nd May, 2008

Two women have remarried, more than 30 years after they walked down the aisle together as man and wife.

Emma Martin, who has had a sex change, and Linda Packer tied the knot in a civil ceremony to preserve the tax and pension rights they enjoyed as a married couple.

They got their marriage annulled after Linda's husband Martin decided to have a sex-change operation. He had felt unhappy with his gender since he was four.

The change in Martin's legal gender status when he became Emma meant they could not remain married under law.

That left the pair, who described themselves as "soulmates", facing large inheritance tax bills should one of them die.

It also caused problems with life insurance and pensions rights.

Consequently they decided to remarry, despite not being in a sexual relationship.

The couple from Little Downham, near Ely in Cambridgeshire, first married in 1977 and never had children.

Martin Packer told his wife in 1998 that he wanted to change his sex, and he subsequently underwent treatments including electrolysis to remove body hair and hormone replacement therapy, before going under the knife.

Now calling herself Emma Martin, the 60-year-old IT consultant explained: "We are, and always have been, soulmates and best friends ever since 1977 when we got married.

"But, to get my gender recognition certificate, we had to get our marriage annulled.

"When that happened we would have been liable for inheritance tax but it also messed up life insurance and pension rights.

"The simplest thing would have been if we could have had a transfer from a marriage to a civil partnership but that wasn’t possible and it was such a farce to get all the paperwork sorted out.

"From the outside it looks like we are in a relationship and Linda doesn’t really like that because we are not," she told the Daily Mail.

Under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, marriages in which one spouse has a sex change are not permitted to continue.

As a result Miss Martin faced a choice - either remain legally a man and stay married to Linda, or become a woman, have the union annulled and remarry her.

The financial security the couple now enjoy under their civil partnership contrasts with the position of elderly sisters Joyce and Sybil Burden, aged 90 and 82, who have lived together all their lives.

Under current legislation the surviving sister will face a £50,000 inheritance tax bill when the other dies, forcing her to sell their Marlborough home.

Earlier this week they lost an appeal at the European Court of Human Rights ruling to be granted the same tax and inheritance rights as married couples and civil partners.

In a statement after the ruling they said they were "struggling to understand" why they "should find themselves in such a position in the UK in the 21st century".

Eunuch sets self on fire

The Times of India
Friday, May 2, 2008

Times News Network

On Thursday, a 21 year-old eunuch, Tuhiya, tried to immolate herself in her house in Khajoori Khas in north-east Delhi. According to the police, she has received 80% burns and is admitted at GTB hospital.According to a statement given to the police, Tuhiya said that she had had a relationship with a 23-old driver. Earlier the two often met up. However, about two months back, he stopped coming to her house and finally stopped communicating with her. A couple of days back, he informed her that he had married someone. Shocked by the revelation, she set herself on fire. The police have lodged a case and are investigating the matter.

toireporter@timesgroup.com