Give me a new ID; I’m neither a man nor a woman

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Give me a new ID; I'm neither a man nor a woman
Sunday Nation
By MUCHEMI WACHIRA and JAMES KARIUKI
Posted Saturday, June 5 2010 at 21:00


http://www.nation.co.ke/News/%20Im%20neither%20a%20man%20nor%20a%20woman%20/-/1056/932604/-/5bpgf7/-/


In school, he was male. But now she feels she is a woman, and this unusual gender transition facing the 26-year-old person is driving "him" mad.

Andrew Mbugua's voice, hair, and all other features are feminine, and her transitional condition has led to police harrassment and a stint in jail for alleged female impersonation although no charges were ever brought.

She has dropped Andrew in favour of Audrey, which she feels doesn't easily give away her gender.

And she has written to the Registrar of Persons seeking new identification documents that explain the new traumatic sexual transformation that began when Andrew/Audrey was pursuing a university education.
She is a transsexual; in this case a person identified at birth as a male who now feels she is a female. This makes it very difficult to determine the applicant's "real" gender.