Meet Uganda’s first transgender citizen - Cleopatra Kambugu is the first Ugandan whose transition has been recognised by the state
Part of her transition involved getting authorities to recognise her identity in her official documents, without which it is difficult for trans people to get public services. Kambugu demanded to speak to the top officials in the citizenship and passport office and, to her surprise, she found them more understanding than she had expected.
“The government knows about us,” she said. “All that hard work of changing people’s minds, it feels like people are starting to understand.” Although she is celebrating now, she says there are more battles to be fought. “When you present yourself as a trans person in public, you get policed. Are you women enough? It helps that I do pass, and I’ve had surgery. What if you don’t pass?” This article first appeared in
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