What is the background?
In 2009, a woman in Kenya went to court after doctors wrote a question mark instead of a gender on her child's birth papers. He wanted three things: identity documents for her child to be able to attend school, a law preventing surgery on intersex children unless it is medically necessary, and proper information and psychological support for parents. In a landmark ruling in 2014, the High Court ordered the government to issue a birth certificate to the five-year-old child. In addition, it ordered the attorney general to create a task force that would look at ways of providing better support for intersex children. That task force handed its recommendations to the Attorney General in April. They include delaying surgery until children can choose for themselves and a robust survey on numbers. It also recommended that an I-marker, an intersex identifier, be used in public documentation.DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.
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