Are Senegal’s intersex people collateral victims of LGBTphobia?
From Erasing 76 Crimes · Moïse Manoël-Florisse · 20 August 2026
Senegal’s birth certificates rigidly declare people male or female. Debates in Senegal over an attempted but rejected constitutional ban on same-sex marriage have revealed the unwitting and dangerous exclusion of intersex people from Senegalese law. The proposed amendment would have strictly enshrin...
Senegal’s birth certificates rigidly declare people male or female. Debates in Senegal over an attempted but rejected constitutional ban on same-sex marriage have revealed the unwitting and dangerous exclusion of intersex people from Senegalese law. The proposed amendment would have strictly enshrined the gender binary, even though it is known that about 1.7% of the general…