Shunned at birth: The invisible pain of intersex children fighting for acceptance

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When David Baraka* was born, the world greeted him not with warmth or celebration, but with rejection and fear. His mere existence was seen as a curse, his life deemed unworthy of love or hope.

At just three weeks old, his mother, overwhelmed by societal stigma, shoved him into a dusty sack filled with iron nails, leaving him at a desolate construction site in Marereni village, Kilifi. In that moment, David's future was uncertain-he would either suffocate in the sack or, by some miracle, be discovered by a kind soul.