Audrey Mbugua

We have an insidious form of cancer in Kenyan society. I would like us to examine an incident that took place a month ago and encompassed human rights violations against a pre-op male-to-female transsexual person in Kenya. I will call her Barricade.

A transsexual person is someone who experiences deep and long-lasting discomfort with his or her anatomical (genital) sex and wishes to change their physical characteristics, including genitals (through hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery), to the opposite of those usually associated wit