0 Thamar Klein 2009 Liminalis 2009 3 15-41 South Africa is one of the most progressive countries worldwide regarding the rights of intersexed and trans* people.1 Surprisingly the success for formal protection was not achieved through a local ‘mass’ movement of trans* and intersexed people against institutions - which one might consider to be necessary in any struggle of acceptance – but began within institutions through the Technical Committee responsible for drafting the Interim Constitution. This paper addresses the distinctive South African situation with its diversity of people to be addressed while having a closer look at the term movement. I point out that even though trans* and intersexed people are often discussed as a single group, the complex intersectionality of e.g. class, religion, sexual orientation, health, ethnicity, skin colour, income, and so on, places individuals at very different positions in life and lets them inhabit this ‘single’ category in very diverse ways. The objective of this article is to provide an overview on the activism and struggles that have taken place since the end of Apartheid to improve the situation of trans* and intersexed people.