No more silence; Afghan intersex shares painful story of neglect & harassment  

“My gender has put me at risk of continuous harassment; people make me their subject of mockery. To avoid being harassed, I have been taking medicines to shrink the size of breasts,” says the 64-year-old Saboor, who is an intersex.

Life for an intersex is not easy in the conservative Afghan society. The plight of transgender and intersex community is beyond imagination in Afghanistan where public perception about intersex community is dauntingly negative. Many conservative Afghan families and even ruling regimes and customs in rural areas see intersex and transgender folks as sexual perversion.