Kenya: Hardships Faced by Transsexual People

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 Kenya:  Hardships Faced by Transsexual People

Audrey Mbugua

12 November 2009

http://allafrica.com/stories/200911121080.html

Transsexualism is a highly misunderstood subject in Kenya. Some conflate it with inter-sexuality and hermaphroditism. Inter-sexuality consists of an array of conditions in which an individual is born with ambiguous genitalia or with atypical karyotype. Hermaphroditism on the other hand denotes the existence of both testicular and ovarian tissues in an individual. Inter-sexuality and hermaphroditism are an array of atypical sex development and differentiation, while transsexualism is the cacophony between one's self-identity as male or female and one's anatomical sex.