{"id":2258,"date":"2016-09-01T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:34:20","slug":"parliamentarian-push-for-third-gender-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/parliamentarian-push-for-third-gender-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2016 \u2014 Parliamentarian Pushes for Third Gender, Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">September 2016 \u2014 Parliamentarian Pushes for Third Gender, Kenya<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2016, Isaac Mwaura, a Kenyan Parliamentarian, wanted the Kenyan Parliament to pass the option of a third gender into Kenyan law in order to legally recognise intersex people. Mwaura also asked for public funding for gender-affirming surgeries and a public awareness campaign to end the stigmatisation of intersex people. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-37256913\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/91004505_mwauramp-1-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3127\" style=\"width:1200px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/91004505_mwauramp-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/91004505_mwauramp-1.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2016 \u2014 Parliamentarian Pushes for Third Gender, Kenya In September 2016, Isaac Mwaura, a Kenyan Parliamentarian, wanted the Kenyan Parliament to pass the option of a third gender into Kenyan law in order to legally recognise intersex people. Mwaura also asked for public funding for gender-affirming surgeries and a public awareness campaign to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,33,41],"tags":[657,53,658],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-intersex","category-legislation","tag-isaac-mwaura","tag-kenya","tag-third-gender"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}