Man seeking to drop his female identity sues state, Knec

He had appearance of a girl while young, but with a beard and broken voice and other masculine traits now, he wants to be identified as male.

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John Karanja Kariuki was born with ambiguous genitalia, but both the birth attendant and his parents believed he was a girl. When he was born on November 27, 1993, he was given the name Dorcas Wangui Kariuki. His parents proceeded to raise him as a girl and all his school documents contain the female name. Everyone around the 27-year old man treated him as a girl until sometime in 2011 when he started manifesting male characteristics such as a broken voice and a bushy beard.