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    "id": 936292,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/936292/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13188,
        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "‘Every child has the right— (a) to a name and nationality from birth;’ This definition means that the different physical and biological changes that will go on in the life of an intersex person at puberty level will not be acknowledged. That will make the child to be more frustrated. The proposed amendment that intersex means a person who is considered born with a biological sex characteristic that cannot be exclusively categorized in the common binary of female or male due to their inherent and mixed anatomical hormonal, gonadal, ovaries and testis or chromosomes ‘x’ and ‘y’ patterns which could be apparent at birth, childhood and puberty takes in this consideration. This will help protect the rights of a child born as Jane when they become John at puberty. That is because there will be a section proposed in this amendment Bill which will now allow one to state that they are either male, female or intersex during registration. Therefore, it will help the child to be autonomous. Intersex persons should be provided psychosocial support because they go through difficult moments together with their parents. Factoring in the changes that intersex people go through in the registration will help the child and the society to understand the various changes that those people go through. Our Constitution states that people need to be treated with dignity. If we do not make the amendments, then it means that the child will go through bullying because sensitization has not been done. Therefore, there is need for the amendments and we should sensitize the society and the medical fraternity."
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