After an arrest for entering a women's bathroom in Bulawayo in 2014, she filed a civil lawsuit for damages which she won in 2019.
[4] In January 2014, Nathanson was arrested in a nightclub in Bulawayo on the charge of criminal nuisance, after using a women's toilet.
Six police officers wearing riot gear took her into custody, where she spent three days and two nights, being subjected to physical examinations to confirm her gender.
[5][6] When the case came to court, the judge asked the prosecution to explain what the nuisance had been and it was established no crime had been committed, so the charge was dropped.
[5] "We are happy that justice, fairness and compassion has prevailed" said Tashwill Esterhuizen, a lawyer at the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC).