Media Reports

Richard Muasya in Kenya: Lifelong intersex exclusion leads to the inevitable, exclusion from the means to live, then jail, rape, violence and yet more exclusion

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OII-Kenya affiliate lawyer John Chigiti represents a number of intersex Kenyans in matters of the law in that country, despite statements made during the recent trial of Kenyan intersex person Richard Muasya that there are no intersex people in Kenya and therefore no need to include them in the legislation of that nation. Mr Muasya’s…
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A New York story of an XXY woman

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WE are mindful of a range of beliefs about the XXY karyotype – about being male, being female and being intersex – often warring with each other out there in the wider community, so we were very interested to come across the story of Juno, formerly Alejandro, recently. A number of members of OII across…
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Intersex people in Germany interviewed by Radio Deutsche Welle

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INTERSEX people in Germany including IVIM/OII-Germany spokesperson Ins A. Kromminga were recently interviewed by Deutsche Welle for their Living in Germany English language radio program. Ins and Ulrike Kloeppel amongst others provided insights into intersex and how intersex people live in Germany. External links: Deutsche Welle – Living in Germany with an intersex child Deutsche…
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Global Times: Hermaphrodite’s sad tale

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A 20-year-old university student from Pengshui county, Chongqing Municipality is facing a hard choice: to become a man or a woman after doctors at Southwest Hospital found that she is a hermaphrodite. Zeng Jing, who was raised as a girl, came to the hospital with her mother for examinations where Doctor Lu Gensheng found Zeng…
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