Sex change bill to cabinet soon

2003-03-04 16:25

Cape Town - A bill allowing people who have undergone sex change surgery to have the description of their sex altered in the National Population Register is to be sent to Cabinet next month for consideration.

The Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Bill stems from recommendations made to government in 1995 by the South African Law Commission.

According to a home affairs programme, tabled at parliament on Tuesday, the department intends submitting the bill to Cabinet in April.

"The bill aims to provide legal mechanisms in terms of which any person who has undergone a sex-change operation could apply to the director-general of... home affairs for the alteration of his or her sex description in the National Population Register.

"Sex change is a reality, which should be accorded legal recognition," the programme states.

- SAPA

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Corry says... jeezuz, enough already we get it. Most of the bonehead racist bigots are pissed that they can no longer treat blacks as animals and be the "master race". Get over it.
Those same dutchmen say to the blacks to stop blaming apartheid, it's been over for 15 years yet in the next article they still moan about what the English did in concentration camps in the boer war a million years ago. What's good for the goose must surely be good for the gander.
Yes, there are problems, yes they are going to take a long time to be rectified. Yes the current government is corrupt and a bumch of crooks (no less than the NP governement mind you, ask the Smit's daughter about that one).
Zuma is an perverted philanthropist bereft of morals interested only in oiling his dipstick in anything resembling a woman.
But seriously, what results do you expect from 40 years of "why teach them maths when all they need to learn is how to use a hammer and shovel".
No one said it was going to be easy or smooth. It never was and anyone thinking otherwise needs a serious reality check.

And before anyone gets all huffy about my bonehead and dutchman remarks -

Ek is 'n blanke Afrikaner, ek is DIE waarteen die meeste huidiglik ge-diskrimineer word. Al wat dit beteken is dat ek nie op my gat sit en fopsoliet okkol kan doen en verwag dinge moet gebeur nie. Dit is moeilik ja, maar ek maak dit en ek is 'n beter mens aan beide myself en ook my mede mens. Maar ek het besluit om my kinders NIE Afrikaans groot te maak nie want daarmee doen ek hulle die grootste onguns, al wat Afrikaners leer om nog meer te haat as die verlede. Nee dankie, ek soek geensins enige deel daarvan nie. Julle hoort julself te skaam. Maar ek weet julle sal nie. Julle gebruik ook die bybel om julle denkwyse te regverdig, "waterdaers sal hulle verewig wees"!
Ek leer hulle om NIE rassisties te wees nie en om hul mede mens te aanvaar. As my kinders dalk met 'n nie-blanke 'n verhouding opskep is dit nie my prerogatief om my of my voorsate se denkwyse op hulle te forseer nie. "I may not like it" maar dit is hulle wereld, hulle toekoms en dit is krimineel om hulle soos die "ou" tye te probeer grootmaak.
Dit laat my dink aan 'n Engelse gesegte "The night is at its darkest just before the dawn"
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