Browsing: Intersex People

Intersex is a term that is used for a variety of conditions where a human or animal is born with either external or internal sexual anatomy which are quite different from that of a typical male or female.

Olumide is a young, handsome, caring, and soft spoken man that every lady wants to meet. He pays more attention to his looks more than any other thing and there is nothing wrong with that. Olumide had posters of handsome men all pasted in his room as one of the corps member in our hostel during the mandatory youth service.

Intersex individuals are not homosexuals; transgender maybe, but not homosexual. Wearing feminine clothing does not make one a homosexual. The homosexual orientation is one that has very little to do with physical appearance. It has more to do with emotionally connecting or sexually/romantically connecting with people of the same sex, a psychologist pointed out.

A conservative society like Nigeria has a lot to do in dealing with stigmatization and discrimination of different kinds of…