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Struggles of a mother with an intersex child

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Intersex are individuals who "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies". [iStockphoto]

Moments after giving birth in her rural home, Ivy Kawira*, a mother of one, faced a difficult choice: Deciding whether her baby would be a boy or a girl.

The child was born with ambiguous genitalia, displaying characteristics that are neither male nor female.

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