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Title: Caught between a male personality and female body
Post by: Shana A on October 23, 2011, 08:47:10 AM
Post by: Shana A on October 23, 2011, 08:47:10 AM
Caught between a male personality and female body
By Yazid Yolisigira
Posted Sunday, October 23 2011 at 00:00
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Makutu village, about 30kms from Iganga town is quite popular because of one person, Nabirye,whose first name I later learn is Fauza. When you ask what is special about Nabirye, laughter follows as the person delves into explaining her double-gender - male and female. It is obviously very complicated to explain that the said Nabirye, could easily pass for a woman or man because she has two sexual organs. The dictionary word for people like her is hermaphrodite.
In Busoga culture, the name Nabirye is often given to a woman who has given birth to twins. The parents of the 20-year-old, say that they named their child Nabirye because of her two sexual organs, an explanation other elders on the village concur with.
By Yazid Yolisigira
Posted Sunday, October 23 2011 at 00:00
http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1259862/-/bpg4vk/-/ (http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1259862/-/bpg4vk/-/)
Makutu village, about 30kms from Iganga town is quite popular because of one person, Nabirye,whose first name I later learn is Fauza. When you ask what is special about Nabirye, laughter follows as the person delves into explaining her double-gender - male and female. It is obviously very complicated to explain that the said Nabirye, could easily pass for a woman or man because she has two sexual organs. The dictionary word for people like her is hermaphrodite.
In Busoga culture, the name Nabirye is often given to a woman who has given birth to twins. The parents of the 20-year-old, say that they named their child Nabirye because of her two sexual organs, an explanation other elders on the village concur with.