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23 Dec 2013

Botswana: Laws stop service providers from helping LGBTIs

Africa and the Middle East

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“Many people, services providers, have difficulties helping LGBTI people because of what the laws say,” says Caine Youngman, LGBTI coordinator at LeGaBiBo, an LGBTI organisation in Botswana.

The laws are harsh, but the precise penalties are not enforced. Mr Youngman explains that the very presence of the laws means that gays are constantly harassed by officials in hospitals, community service centres, and police bureaus.

Youngman describes a friend who was constantly harassed while he was transitioning from being female to a man:

“When he was travelling from one airport to another, he would be moved from one office to another, sometimes even missing his connecting flights.”

In Botswana, they have travelling documents or other identity documents. When a transgender person is questioned by an authority figure, there are issues when you portray yourself as a man, but your passport says you are female.

“One [of my friends] has given up on travelling,” Mr Youngman told World Wide Wave.

Mr Youngman also told us that the police are receptive to training. “Since 2007, almost every year, we’ve had trainings with the police on how to be with the LGBTI community.”

Find out more on W3JOY’s Botswana webpage.

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