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    "id": 1028639,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this debate. From the outset, I would like to say that I support this Sessional Paper. However, I would like to caution my colleagues. The gender discussion cannot be a woman discussion. When we talk about gender we do not talk about women. It is both men and women. Recently, Kenya became the first African country to carry out a census of another gender that we were calling intersex and it showed that we have 1,524 intersex people. These are people who are neither male nor female. This Sessional Paper is trying to say that we need equality in terms of gender, but how do we get to achieve this equality? It is when we are sure there is a fair playfield for people of whichever gender that we pick on. Various speakers have demonstrated that we have great leaders. Some of them happen to be women and men. Therefore, there should be no time where someone should be discriminated against for a particular position because they belong to a particular gender. Maybe this even calls for a discussion in our families and our meetings. Why is it that every time we even have a small meeting we tell women to take minutes? It is probably because we still The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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