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 ...

The words equality and equity often get used interchangeably, but they have quite different meanings. Equality is an objective term — it means just what it implies and there is little room for debate.

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 ...