The gay community is up in arms with the state weekly newspaper The Sunday Mail over its recent reportage on a Zimbabwean man who changed sexuality. 
In a statement to ZimEye.com, Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe said the coverage of Tatenda Zenzo Karigambe also known as Tatelicious who the paper referred to as a “liar” and “thief”

after quoting anonymous psychologists and sources, incites violence against the gay community.  
According to the Sunday Mail of 28 June unnamed Tatenda’s Budiriro high density neighbours said “she” was gay as opposed to being transgender. 
Tatenda was reported by the media recently as having had under gone sex change operation at a cost of about $80,000. 
“GALZ does not condone acts of providing false and misleading representations or deceptive manipulation of the media that might give rise to misleading conclusions about issues,” GALZ said. 
“Such actions might have the potential to motivate violence on a vulnerable community. 
“We call upon service providers such as psychologists to treat all people with respect and without judgment”. 
Transgender people GALZ said suffer from discrimination when they approach health care centres seeking for treatment. 
“They are often mistakenly labeled as gay/lesbian. Being Transgender is not about sexual preference, it is about gender.
“Service providers seem to know about gays and lesbians; however they have little or no knowledge of transgender people. They often conflate, transgender lives and experiences with those of gay and lesbian people”.