Kenya: A Third Gender for the Country?

Imagine you have male and female sexual organs and have to go to desperate lengths to keep this secret at your all-girls boarding school. Intersex Kenyans hope an end to the discrimination and hate is on the horizon.

"I grew up as Mary Waithera, I went to school as Mary Waithera," says James Karanja.

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