
Helen Zille’s transphobia
In echoing the anti-trans panic sweeping the Global North, South African political heavyweight Helen Zille joins a reactionary tradition of racialized sex policing.
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Shelley Pryde is a South African currently pursuing a PhD in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She researches queer nightlife, performance, and activism in Cape Town in relation to transnational politics, neoliberal governance, and apartheid and colonial history.
In echoing the anti-trans panic sweeping the Global North, South African political heavyweight Helen Zille joins a reactionary tradition of racialized sex policing.