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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica 22 Dec 2017

    For the first time ever, someone born a man has won the right to be recognised as a woman in Botswana. It follows a legal fight of many years.pic.twitter.com/krj4DYVpC9

    12:29 AM - 22 Dec 2017
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    • PRICE JOHN Mohudi (Thabo) lizz omollo Jesse Custer, Apparently Lebogang Witley Alanon Yaa AngryFármér🌱☕ 🇺🇬 Ade Onikoyi
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      2. The Wisdom Of Port Harcourt‏ @TWEETEST_BOI 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Can I be recognized as a dinosaur? Always felt like one

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      2. Monna wa Mosotho‏ @MakoaeSeabata 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        No human being is born "man". All people are born human, and are either male or female. Man and woman are social constructs. When will @BBCAfrica learn to report issues of sexuality properly?

        3 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
      3. Arthur Silva 🌀‏ @SilvArtz 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @MakoaeSeabata @BBCAfrica

        "Man and woman are social constructs" really?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Monna wa Mosotho‏ @MakoaeSeabata 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SilvArtz @BBCAfrica

        Yes... male and femal are biological orientations. Do u need a lecture on this ?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Arthur Silva 🌀‏ @SilvArtz 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @MakoaeSeabata @BBCAfrica

        A man must be a biological male and woman a biological female. Transgenderism is a mental illness called gender dysphoria. Gender fluidity is a weird concept

        3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      6. Monna wa Mosotho‏ @MakoaeSeabata 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SilvArtz @BBCAfrica

        You are wrong to think that being a man comes first, while it is being ,male that comea first, then society makes a man out of a male person. And nothing says a male "must" be a man, nor a female a woman, for such a social constructs.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Arthur Silva 🌀‏ @SilvArtz 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @MakoaeSeabata @BBCAfrica

        A male can claim to identify as a woman but will never be female or "woman". He will just remain a male suffering from an identity disorder. Skip the BS rhetoric, delusional opinions and untrue concepts spewed out by angry feminists in women and gender studies classes.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Monna wa Mosotho‏ @MakoaeSeabata 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SilvArtz @BBCAfrica

        You are drifting away. I will repeat this for emphasis only. We are born either male or female persons. We then get to be socialised as either men or women, boys or girls based on that bioloical orientation. So it is factually wrong for @BBCAfrica to coin the headline as such.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Arthur Silva 🌀‏ @SilvArtz 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @MakoaeSeabata @BBCAfrica

        Man, pick a dictionary. All dictionaries define for e.g 'woman' along the lines of 'an adult female human...' A male cannot be a woman, that's the point. Why are we even arguing this?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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      1. Monna wa Mosotho‏ @MakoaeSeabata 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Corrected version " For the first time ever, someone born a male, has won the right to be recognized as a female in Botswana..." How is this difficult for @BBCAfrica ?

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      1. Ezeocha Collins‏ @EzeochaCollins 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Remove me from your distribution list (😂) when sending this type of polluted tweet. What nonsense!!!

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      1. Mulaudzi Davies N‏ @NyirongoDavies9 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @dollarmac

        God have mercy

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      1. senyonino‏ @senyonino 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        I weep for Africa sometimes when they try to copy such "stupid " things.. When there is poverty, unemployment look at what u are thinking

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      1. Tapiwa R. Chidonza‏ @ChidonzaTapiwa 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Abnormal, unhuman, illogical, unscientific, inhuman, stupid, unnatural.utmost confusion, its like a radio crying to be a television. I pray that won't ever come to Zimbabwe.

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      1. Honest Madzivadondo‏ @dzivaz80 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Even the mentally ill hve rights! But the good part z they nvr fight to be recognized as normal! Thats why we fight for them to get access to treatment and counseling!

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      2. ALLEN CHUKWUHDI‏ @AllenCDawson 22 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        And, this is hailed as a victory! Africans should live according to African standards. They shouldn't endorse mental illness, they should treat it.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Isah‏ @ijgamba 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        There is a connection between evil and economic development. Botswana is said to be one of Africa's promising economies.

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      1. Tautona‏ @Rre_Sefara 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        My friend suffer from Albanism, can he be classified as white person in Botswana

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