4 February 2015 — High Court Rejects Petition by Trans Organisation Against Medical Board, Kenya

The Kenyan High Court dismissed Transgender Education & Advocacy (TEA)’s case, Misc. Civil Application 263 of 2014, filed on 10 July 2014, calling it premature, as the medical board had formed a task force to advise the Ministry of Health on the development of guidelines on the management of “transsexualism”*. TEA was ordered to pay the state’s legal fees.

The case was brought against the medical board as TEA’a Audrey Mbugua argued that the Board had failed to develop National Guidelines for the Management of Gender Identity Disorders**. Read more here.

* “Transsexualism” is a medical term, outdated in many countries.

** “Gender Identity Disorder” is no longer a term used in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), since 2013. The updated term is “gender dysphoria”.