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    "id": 1150804,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " In contributing to this, I am actually persuading him because in principle we are moving the same amendment. We are all concerned about taking care of intersex children but I just wanted to indicate that one of the things that came out very clearly from the intersex community is that there are a number of them who think using the word “intersex genital mutilation” is actually very negative because they said it actually equates it to FGM and circumcision which is cultural and this is not cultural. This is actually done to try and correct their gender. One of the other things that we were also advised by the doctors that we met was that now we also have… I know it is a new thing that we are still grappling with as a country but we were advised that we have specialists, geneticists that may at an early age be able to tell and therefore actually perform surgery early so that you may not necessarily wait for somebody to be an adult to choose their sex. I just wanted the Chair to see. If mine makes more sense, then he can drop his and we adopt mine. Otherwise in principle, we are actually saying the same thing."
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