Articles: Transgender in Kenya
http://www.blacklooks.org/about/articles/articles_transgender_in_kenya1/27/09
Introduction. Human rights have been defined as 'basic moral guarantees that people in all countries and cultures allegedly have simply because they are people. Calling these guarantees "rights" suggests that they attach to particular individuals who can invoke them, that they are of high priority, and that compliance with them is mandatory rather than discretionary (->-bleeped-<-an 2006).
To remain silent in the face of oppression of transgender people (people who desire to have, or have achieved, a different physical sex from that which they were assigned at birth) is to condone the worst forms of terror against human beings.
In this paper, I will try to explain the social, legal, health and religious mechanisms which create anti-transgender motivated oppression and which can be used to formulate policies that creating understanding and tolerance of transgender individuals, punish those who perpetrate violence and discrimination on transgender people. Much of it will touch on ignorance of ->-bleeped-<- some basics concepts such as the difference between religious fundamentalism, sexism, social conservatism and the lack of legal integration of transgendered people.
