He had appearance of a girl while young, but with a beard and broken voice and other masculine traits now, he wants to be identified as male. [email protected]John Karanja Kariuki was born with ambiguous genitalia, but both the birth attendant and his parents believed he was a girl. When he was born on November 27, 1993, he was given the name Dorcas Wangui Kariuki. His parents proceeded to raise him as a girl and all his school documents contain the female name. Following the surgery, the then Wangui had to change his name to reflect the new identity.

Source: Standard Digital October 01, 2020 04:52 UTC