Tshepo Ricki Kgositau-Kanzaa, is trans-rights activist from Botswana who lives in South Africa.
In 2017, she was the first trans women to have her preferred gender identity legally recognised in Botswana.
Kgositau identified as a woman from a young age.[1] In 2011, she requested to have her gender identity correctly noted as female on her Omang (English: National Identify Card) by the Civil and National Registration Office, but they were unable to make the change.[2]
In 2017, the Botswana High Court ordered the government to recognise her gender identify as a woman, making her the first trans women to have her preferred gender identity legally recognised in Botswana.[1]
Kgositau lives in South Africa.[2]
Kgositau is a director at Gender Dynamix trans-rights organisation.[3] She is a trans rights advocate.[1]
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