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Introduction: Trans Travels and Trans Trajectories

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In recent years we have seen a new phenomenon in Africa’s long history of migration: the journeying of people fleeing persecution, violence and discrimination on the grounds of their gender identity/expression. This chapter terms these people ‘gender refugees’—people who can make claims to refugee status, fleeing their countries of origin based on the persecution of their gender identity. ‘Gender refugees’ are different from sexual refugees in that their issues pertain to their gender identity and birth-assigned sex being perceived as incongruent. Drawing on life story interviews carried out between 2013 and 2015 with gender refugees, living in South Africa, along with documentary and archival work, this chapter explores how, when, and under what circumstances transgender-identified individuals from countries in Africa are made to journey, forced to seek refuge not just elsewhere but in South Africa specifically. This chapter presents some of the gender refugees that have journeyed to South Africa, considers how the term ‘transgender’ travels and provides a brief overview of transgender visibility on the African continent currently.

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    Chapter Two of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act no. 108 of 1996 at 7.1.

  3. 3.

    “Once it is accepted, as it must be, that persons within our territorial boundaries have the protection of our courts, there is no reason why ‘everyone’ in sections 12(2) and 35(2) should not be given its ordinary meaning. When the Constitution intends to confine rights to citizens it says so”. Source: Lawyers for Human Rights and Other v Minister of Home Affairs and other (CCT 18/03) [2004] ZACC 12; 2004 (4) SA 125 (CC); 2004 (7) BCLR 775 (CC) (9 March 2004) Section 27.

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    It is far easier to access hormonal care than surgical interventions. Asylum seekers pay a reduced fee at public hospitals to access hormonal care. The access points are limited to a handful of public hospitals across the country. These spaces are often overburdened and struggle to manage demand. Source: Theron, Liesl et al., ‘Rooted in the Past Reaching for the Future: Report of the 2nd Trans* Health and Research Conference’ (Cape Town, 1 December 2014).

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    A 2010 decision in the South African labour court regarding the unfair dismissal of a trans person further suggests a possible reading of gender to include gender identity/expression. Source: Ehlers v Bohler Uddeholm Africa (Pty) Ltd 2010 (JS296/09) [2010] ZALC 117; (2010) 31 ILJ 2383 (LC) (13 August 2010).

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    This has been stated on several occasions in Portfolio Committee meetings, in order to establish how South Africa comes to a definition of ‘refugee’ and accompanying rights in comparison to other countries. Source: Refugee Amendment Bill: Department of Home Affairs Briefing. (NCOP Social Services) (2008). Cape Town: Parliamentary Monitoring Group.

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    It must be noted that I read ‘the state’ here not as a monolithic singular entity but as comprised of multiple sites and actors. These perform many functions, which are suggestive of an underlying logic that reproduces, configures, and polices the arrangement between gender and sex in specific ways. See: Paisley Currah, ‘Homonationalism, State Rationalities, and Sex Contradictions’, Theory & Event 16, no. 1 (2013).

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    This formulation draws from Gayle Rubin who asserts that socio-political relations within a given society contain mechanisms that convert sex to gender. Within these, sex is often understood as natural and immutable. Source: Gayle Rubin, ‘The Traffic in Women: Notes on the “Political Economy” of Sex’, in Toward an Anthropology of Women, ed. Rayna R. Reiter (New York: Monthly Review, 1975), 157–210.

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    Although this work is not without critique.

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    In 1996, South Africa became one of the first countries in the world to protect people from discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, and sexual orientation. To what extent it was believed that ‘gender’ encompassed transgender in the imagining of the Constitution is questionable; regardless, transgender groups have slowly won rights utilising this non-discriminatory stance since 1996. This has been perhaps most visible in the advent of Act 49, 2001, The Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act, which allows for legal adjustment of one’s sex on identity documents without having to undergo surgery. In light of international norms and laws which often require invasive surgery before gender identity can be re-assigned, this law in and of itself is ahead of many of its Western counterparts. South Africa also allows for access to biomedical care and body-altering surgery in order to address the needs of those transgender people who wish to transition. Access is often difficult and costly but the state does provide a handful of surgeries yearly.

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    Pseudonyms along with only regional, instead of national, origins have been used to protect the identities of the participants who took part in this project.

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    All interviews have been transcribed in their original in an effort to respect the language use, narrative, and sentence structure of second-language speakers.

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    Though outdated and considered by many to be deeply offensive ‘sex change’ was the accepted terminology, particularly in South Africa, for the time period under discussion. For historical accuracy I use it here. As the book moves into the contemporary period I use ‘gender-affirming healthcare’.

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Camminga, B. (2019). Introduction: Trans Travels and Trans Trajectories. In: Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa. Global Queer Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92669-8_1

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