Michael Bantjes and Miki Mappin

Miki Mappin: Miki Mappin, 58, came to Canada from South Africa in 1959 as a three-year-old boy and became a Canadian citizen in 1974. , according to CBC. Shortly after that, she began the process of converting her male-oriented identification. She went through Saskatchewan official process for a change of name, so Michael Bantjes was converted to Miki Mappin on such ID as her driver licence and health insurance card. Miki Mappin figures it would be difficult for her to travel and present her current passport, which shows her as a man. A Saskatoon woman hoping to travel overseas has encountered a bureaucratic nightmare related to travel documents: She is transgender and no longer identifies as a man, so updating her passport is a major hassle. In 2011, Mappin started to publicly express her chosen female gender. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.