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Gender is fluid. Gender is dramatic. Society is to a tide what gender is to an ocean. Society and gender draw determination from each other. To legislate gender is likely to lead to censoring social roles which may nip genres, innovation, agency, determination, autonomy and productivity in the bud. Dress, prayer, song, recreation, drama, dance, prose, interaction, political dispensation, service delivery, scripture, religiosity, normativity, feminism, masculinity, education, knowledge and skills transfer, parenting, trade, speech, liberty, happiness, socialisation, ritual, rites of passage, gender reveal events, nurturing and lifestyle will be affected in a post Anti-Gay Act 2023 Uganda. Anti-Gay is a regime that fuels negative gender stereotyping, upholds misandryist and misogynistic tendencies including sardonic, innuendo-laced and suggestive remarks sexually objectifying bodies. A male whose voice never breaks and a female who grows beards will be stigmatised. Uganda is to be ...

A girl child given bodycare education and provided opportunities to hone self-care skills, participates fully in quality life promoting activities.     This in turn is what makes a mature woman demand services and be engaged in causing better life for self and planned for children in case she is to have them. We bring you two issues that caught our eyes during this on-going ICPD 25+ Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. SRHR and Women with Disabilities: Bringing Two Movements Together Women with disabilities have been systematically denied the right to free and informed consent, bodily autonomy and self-determination in making choices about SRH, leading to forced sterilization, abortion and contraception. This underscored why there is an urgent need to ensure SRHR advocacy addresses the rights and needs of women with disabilities. Stakeholders need to lay the groundwork for critical advocacy to address these intersectional rights issues. This session is convened by CRE...

Dear Parliamentarian; Re: The Love Where One Leaves The Beauty of A Woman And Settles For A Fellow Man/ The Love Where One Leaves The Beauty of A Woman And Settles For A Fellow Woman In this letter to you, I attempt to highlight or trace: What compels us to denounce homosexuality The people behind denunciation of homosexuality The rationale behind the denunciation Where outlawing homosexuality gets it wrong The ideology of homosexuality The biology of homosexuality The theology of homosexuality Homosexuality is not the pressing matter Ugandan Parliament makes it to be And please, stop using the term "homosexuals" or "homosexuality." That is oxymoronic. It is also equivalent to tying someone up and expect them to carry water at the same time. Or eating your cake and expecting to have it at the same time. The people you are dealing with are called:  neurodivergent gender diverse persons. This letter is about the love where ...