Mahlatse Nkuna is on a mission to raise about R519,900 for her sex reassignment surgery
Apart from not having health insurance to cover the surgery, Nkuna said some of the challenges that she's faced during her transition thus far included changing her legal gender marker.“I started with my name. Mahlatse is my unisex birth name, but I had a masculine middle name which I removed.
They must be South African and have undergone “clinical treatment”, which may include or be constituted by counselling and need not involve “invasive medical treatment”. “In most spaces I’m assumed to be cisgender female, and I navigate the world as a woman — no questions asked. I value this, not because I’m ashamed of being transgender, but because I can walk down the street safely and use the women’s bathroom without any trouble.
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