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Your baby isn’t quite a girl, or a boy

Ryan Muiruri at a past interview in September 2018. [File, Standard]

It was a quiet, slow realisation for Ryan’s mother. “The midwife made a passing comment to her that they could not tell if I was a boy or a girl,” Ryan Muiruri says of his birth some 30 years ago in Lari, Kiambu County. He now, out of choice, identifies as a male, and will be referred to as male in the story.  

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