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Kenya Has About 1,524 Intersex Citizens – KNBS

BY Soko Directory Team · November 5, 2019 05:11 am

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) released Kenya’s sixth National Census results which for the first time included intersex citizens, making Kenya the first African country to collect data on intersex people.

The results revealed that in all the 47 counties, there are citizens who were identified as intersex.

According to the census results, Kenya has about 1,524 intersex citizens, with Nairobi County leading the other counties by a wide margin.

In Nairobi County, a total of 245 people were counted as being intersex, with Kiambu and Nakuru counties recording 135 and 95 intersex citizens respectively.

Other counties recorded less than 50 citizens as intersex, with Tana River (2), Lamu (4), Taita Taveta (7), Isiolo (9), Tharaka-Nithi (7) and Samburu (7) recording the least numbers.

The inclusion of intersex people as the third gender in Kenya’s population census came as a huge victory for human rights activists, specifically the Intersex Persons Society of Kenya (IPSK) who pushed for the recognition of the intersex people.

According to IPSK, intersex people in Kenya face challenges of stigmatization and rejection as they are not able to give appropriate information regarding their gender.

Parents of intersex children marking the day of people born with two sex organs in 2016

 

Most intersex children in Kenya have been raised as male or female, depending on the parents’ decision, only to change and live as a different gender when they finally discover they are different.

The recognition of the intersex came about in 2009 when a parent moved to court after doctors put a question mark instead of gender on her child’s birth documents and demanded that her child be given an identity to be able to attend school and psychological support for parents raising such children.

Five years later, the High Court made a ruling that the child in question is given a birth certificate and that a task force is put in place to look at ways of better supporting intersex children.

Those intersex people who came out to be counted is such a milestone for the KNBS as the numbers will help the government with planning and detailing of all genders in terms of consideration in planning for health, education, employment, businesses, and insurance covers.

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