Ricki Kgositau
Tshepo Ricki Kgositau-Kanzaa, is trans-rights activist from Botswana who lives in South Africa. In 2017, she was the first trans women to have her preferred gender identity legally recognised in Botswana. Personal life 
Kgositau identified as a woman from a young age. In 2011, she requested to have her gender identity correctly noted as female on her Omang (English: National Identify Card) by the Civil and National Registration Office, but they were unable to make the change. In 2017, the Botswana High Court ordered the government to recognise her gender identify as a woman, making her the first trans women to have her preferred gender identity legally recognised in Botswana. Kgositau lives in South Africa. Career and advocacy 
Kgositau is a director at Gender Dynamix trans-rights organisation. She is a trans rights advocate. Selected publications 

 Liesl Theron and Tshepo Ricki Kgositau, The Emergency of a Grassroots African Trans Archive, Transgender Studies Quarterly 2(4): 578-583, 2015

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Botswana women activists
Botswana emigrants to South Africa
Botswana transgender people
Botswana women
Transgender rights activists
Transgender women