Traditionally, African communities believes intersex people are born either unclean, bad omen or possessed with evil spirits, religious believes intersex people were born out of evil spirits and they would be cleansed without changing their identity.
26-year-old Boniface Nyakundi from Kisii County narrates numerous times he was tormented by his family, relatives and neighbors. Nyakundi was born as an intersex person with both male and female organs in Kericho county. "Using washrooms was the most difficult part of my school life, am dressed in a boy's uniform and am here using the ladies, pupils used to follow me to the washroom and try to peep in order to see my sexual organs," says Nyakundi.
One woman from the crowd defended him and asked the villagers to leave him, she became her best friend and guardian, she told Nyakundi one of her grandkids was also born with both male and female organs and so he should not fear as he was not alone. In 2009 a woman moved to court to question the gender of her child who was born an intersex and the doctors indicated a question mark next to the gender option in the birth certificate and her prayers were to compel to give her child identity to allow the child attend school.