Malawian 'Gay' Couple Isn't A 'Gay' Couple

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Malawian 'Gay' Couple Isn't A 'Gay' Couple
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
21 May, 2010


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/malawian.html


Today activists the world over protested the conviction of two gay men in Malawi. Even though activists from many different political persuasions joined hands in a protest in Cape Town today, local transgender activists are highlighting the fact that Tiwonge Chimbalanga clearly expresses a female identity.

According to Ian Swartz from OSISA (Open Society Institute of Southern Africa) Tiwonge Chimbalanga sees herself as a woman. "Tiwonge so clearly identifies as a woman and she has expressed her identity as such more often than not. I think if she knew the word Transgender she would come home to a world of understanding of herself" he said recently after visiting the couple in prison.


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