GENDER DIVERSITY COALITION – Call for Action after UCT VC’s Harmful Seminar on LGBTQA+ Community
The Gender Diversity Coalition notes the letter from the University of Cape Town dated 6 September in response to the seminar held on 5 September 2021 with Dr Kgomotso Mathabe, a practising urologist and a member of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital’s Gender Clinic.
We are appalled that the Vice-Chancellor of UCT would curate a seminar titled, “What does science say about LGBTQA+”.
The public outrage on all social media platforms responds to the innate violence and harms this seminar has caused on Trans and Intersex persons and their families who feel the daily violence of medical and pathologized diagnosis that have no positive outcome on their lives.