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Report reveals there are over 1,000 Kenyans who are intersex

Nominated Senator Isaac Mwaura who revealed that for the first time, a question on whether one is intersex or not was in the census questionnaire. [Standard]

There are 1,524 intersex persons in the country, the 2019 census data shows.

The data was released yesterday by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in the presence of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

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