Kenyans and the man-woman thing
http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/kenyans-and-man-woman-thing.html (http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/kenyans-and-man-woman-thing.html)
9/8/09
We tend to dismiss the issue of difference by casting it in moral or cultural arguments. I know that many intersex babies in Kenya have operations the moment they are born, here the decisions being made by the parents. As one would imagine, the majority of these babies end up being male. Problems crop up later when the adults want to reverse those decisions by their parents. It is also common knowledge that intersex grown ups who seek operations after making their own decisions invariably find surgeons who ask them to seek the permission of their parents, their adulthood notwithstanding! It is not that as Kenyans we do not know this problem. We do. We seem to refuse to treat it with the humanity it deserves.