Ifared no better at Church, where as a youth pastor I despe… - Nthabiseng Mokoena

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Ifared no better at Church, where as a youth pastor I desperately tried to find a sense of belonging. When I told the pastor I was intersexed and probably wouldn’t have children I learnt that in Christian belief they deny intersexed people are not created in the likeness of God. We are a variant of sexual development, as are homosexuals.

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Nthabiseng Mokoena is a prominent South African Intersex activist and an advisory board member for the first intersex human rights fund.

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