In a major LGBTI rights victory, the Seshego Equality Court has sided with a transgender Limpopo woman who was the victim of abuse when she was at school.

On Friday, the court ruled in favour of Nare Mphela, who was represented by the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), and against a former high school principal and the Limpopo Department of Education.

Between 2013 and 2014, Mphela was the victim of ongoing discrimination by the school and the principal, because of her gender identity. The harassment was so severe that she says this led to her failing matric at the end of 2014.

Mphela complained that the principal’s humiliating actions, including the use of hurtful and harmful speech, violated her constitutional right to equality. The Limpopo Department of Education was also accused of taking little or no action to intervene in the abuse, despite requests for it to do so. Read more via Mamba Online