Gender neutal bathrooms on campus
Channel: RUTV Journalism Rhodes University
Date: 2017-06-05

Phumelele Nkomozakhe, a transgender, talks about her experience  using a bathroom in public buildings on Rhodes University campus. She talks about her everyday struggle to use a bathroom that classifies her as either male or female when she identifies as a trans woman. Meshalini Govender, of the campus Gender Action project touches on how the ‘gender-neutral’ bathrooms on campus were named. The issue is contraversial as a promise was made by the former Dean of Students, Dr Vivianne de Klerk in 2013 to pursue the provision of gender neutral bathrooms.
Report by  Khwezi Bovula, Anelisa Sandi & Tswelopele Maputla
School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University