Transgender Kenya Stories with Resonance

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth.

The most-cited estimates of the prevalence of transsexualism are based on counts of gender reassignments in European clinics many years ago. Observing that reassignments have been in a start-up transient , we extend those results by recalculating prevalence from the accumulating incidence data, taking into account birth, reassignment and death …

Transgender people face many challenges in a society that is unforgiving of any system of gender that is not binary. However, there are three primary sources of data in the United States for discerning the rates and types of violence that transgender people face throughout their lives — self-report surveys …

There are a lot of Kenyans and a huge section of the international community that believe that transgender and/or LGBT people are criminalized in Kenya. Most of these point at the Constitution and the few who know a little law will implicate the penal code of Kenya. This article is …

There exists a lot of myths, misconceptions and fallacies about transgender people. In this article, I have enumerated these myths and provided facts about transgender people. There is the perception that these myths and stereotypes exist among non-educated people. However, these misconceptions are prevalent even among the high-educated people and …

Terms related to sexual orientation and gender diversity have been defined in several APA documents. Due to the developing understanding of constructs, shifting usage of terms, and contextual focus of these documents, the definitions vary somewhat. This resource provides definitions and their sources. Please cite the source using references provided …

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