Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 521 to 530 of 1711.

• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Today as we speak, James Karanja has an identity card. Ruth Wangui, who I found in a radio station when he was speaking about his story after we had done the campaigns is running the organization together with another young man. We now call him Kwamboka which is a challenge. You can imagine when you have to doubt your essence of being, your own identity; who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going to? It is very easy, the binary distinction of; “I am male and you are female.” It goes like that. view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Recently, when we had the public hearing about this Bill, Kwamboka was at the small Chamber, but he could not access the toilets because our Serjeant-at-Arms were The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: asking: “Which one are you going to?” These are the challenges of intersex people. We have a case of another person called Ndung‟u, brought up as Ndung‟u, but then when he got to Form Three, he started menstruating. What do you do about that kind of a thing? We have another young child who has both a male genitalia and ovaries. Maingi is already eight years old, then it becomes cancerous. These are people who are born that way; they are not individuals who are male and want to be female and vice versa, they are God‟s creation. view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: We have just come from having the Kenya Census 2019. The results were read by the Director-General, Dr. Zachary Mwangi. It was extremely difficult to ensure we had that sex marker in the census. It took a lot of convincing for that to be realized. However, I am very glad that with this first attempt, 1,524 individuals were positively identified as intersex. What is further greater than this is that every county has intersex people who were identified positively. Nairobi is leading with 235 people, Kiambu had 145 and Samburu had two with the least. So, it is not a ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: We have set the pace. The only country that has tried to do so is Australia. They had extrapolated that they would get about 420,000 people, but only 40 registered. We have the biggest data of intersex people in this country. This is a product of the parliamentary process and that shows the value of representation in this House. Some of these gains may be passed unattended. This is the same August House, through a Petition that we presented, that also made the currency that we are using to be more user-friendly to visually impaired people. As a result of ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: We have an opportunity, as the Senate, the August House, „Upper House‟ and the House of reason, to confer to the 1,500 Kenyans, the right to be identified positively as intersex persons. I remember when we first brought the Petition in the National Assembly and there was a very established doctor who sat in the Public Gallery. He is an intersex person, but he could not declare although he was there to witness this occasion. I would want to imagine that there are so many, including senior people in Government and other places who are intersex, but they have never ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: Today, we celebrate the figures that we have, but recently on 26th October, 2019 when we had the international Intersex Persons Remembrance Day at Pumwani and we asked people to stand and positively identify as intersex people, they were very few who could stand. Their fear was that if they were to do so, others would follow them to undress them so they can confirm that they are intersex. It is that serious. The intersex The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: people have been arrested and confused for what they are not; they have been said to be personifying themselves. They have even been given wrong titles. Let me give you an example. One day I received a call from Ryan Muiruri. He had been detained for four hours at a bank in Limuru because they thought he was using the wrong kind of ID. I had to call Achieng, the police lady, who was convinced to release Ryan. Ryan the other day had to almost undress at the immigration so that he could get a passport to travel. There is ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: transgender people are those who are born male but think that they are female. That is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about the biological aspects of reproduction, the actual anatomy that actually represents themselves in a binary way so that you do not quite necessarily fit so. Madam Temporary Speaker, I can really speak a lot but I would want to say that it is timely. I think sometimes we in the third world want to think that it is only the first world that can set pace for us. However, there are a lot ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in Senate: should continue to be what it is; as House of revision. Why am I saying so? Even just two days ago, we had a Petition that I sponsored about scrapping fees for youth so that we do not tax unemployment. The Governor of Central Bank has actually committed to do away with Credit Reference Bureaus (CRB) fees. Also, today in the morning, we were able to have the Committee on Health speak to the issue of connective tissue disorder. Those are some of the things that we are supposed to be bringing to the Senate and to Parliament so that ... view