Growing up intersex in Uganda

Growing up intersex in Uganda

“My name is Kisaakye. I’m from a family of six children. I lost my parents at a very young age. I did not understand who I was. My grandmother said that my stepmother must have bewitched me.

As any growing child I expected bodily changes such as growing breasts and menstruation; but these things didn’t happen to me. I kept telling myself that am still young and that I have not reached that age yet. So I waited and waited, and still nothing. At the end of primary school I realized that I am not like the other girls. I began to wonder whether I was a boy or a girl or in the middle.

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