Kenya: Social Injustice And Transsexual People

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Kenya: Social Injustice And Transsexual People

http://allafrica.com/stories/200902200662.html
2/20/09

Outlining the essential differences between sex and gender, Audrey Mbugua discusses the damaging general incomprehension of transsexualism within Kenyan society. Drawing upon personal experience of prejudice in the field of work and life at large, Mbugua states that transsexual people deserve the same respect and treatment as any other member of society, and urges those uneducated about transsexuals to think before opening their mouths.