Poet and Twitter activist, Ntsiki Mazwai is well known for her polarising tweets on the blue app. A fact which she has reiterated is driven by her passion to drive conversation on the app and force discourse amongst her followers.
However, this time it seems that she might have triggered the wrong group of people. This is as she went in on one of the LGBTQI+ community. Specifically, transgendered people in South Africa.
Ntsiki Mazwai vs. the trans community
It started on Monday, 16 January 2023, when Mazwai started by stating that there needs to be a conversation around trans women. She then went on to suggest that she is still perplexed as to why exactly trans women are offered space in women only spaces as they are after all biologically men.
Safe to say, this resulted in backlash as a collective of trans organisations released a statement on the matter stating in part that:
“Despite the societal perceptions and attitudes that force transgender women [to] the margins of society, transgender women are women and we have always been a part of African cultures and history, and therefore will never be erased.”
At the time, Mazwai had suggested that she will respond with her own formal statement.
Lemme also respond to this with a statement ❤️thanks for sharing. I will respond today 🙏🏿 https://t.co/N2YqkD4oXZ
However, it seems that the backlash in the comment section was more than she expected. As such, it seems that instead, Mazwai opted to backtrack from releasing a statement by suggesting that she is opening up the “extremely uncomfortable” conversation that must be had.
But one thing about Mamiya, is that when she is steadfast on a matter, she will remain resolute as she continued to address the backlash by being assertive. Primarily over the fact that cis-het women have been allegedly sidelined in preference of transwomen.
Beauty pageants.... sports.....it's not only Caitlin Jenner....
She is just an example.
And in the past this didn't happen as it's HUMAN doctors who do this....
More so as one tweep commented by writing to Mazwai that:
“This statement is clear. You don’t see transwomen as women. As a black woman, this othering you’ve delegated to transwomen is akin to the same othering yt women have had towards black women. The fact you can’t recognize that speaks volumes on your character and “feminism.”
As such, Mazwai confirmed that she does not see trans women as women. But instead Mazwai asserted that she sees transwomen as “men that have transitioned.
However, this is not the first time that Ntsiki has offended members of the LGBTQI+ community. Back in 2022 when the video of Somizi and Thembi Seete’s “fight” on Idols SA sparked conversation, Mazwai’s comments offended as it was reported then:
Ntsiki Mazwai chimed in on the debate and relayed her thouhts about Somizi bein rehired in the first place. She questioned why Somizi got hired back on Idols when he is apparently a sex offender. "Somizi is a convicted sex offender.... He paid a fine. He was even arrogant in court. He is a sex offender. He is on the list that the president said would be made public."
Ntsiki even said Somizi has always been jealous of alpha females, and his attack on Thembi is not new.
