Her operation was scheduled for March 2009. Audrey was already active within the transgender movement in Kenya and was working closely with transgender Kenya initiative that had been formed to address the needs of those silently dealing with GID.
“Somebody suggested that we should do a documentary on my operation and we needed permission to film in KNH. Zawadi Nyong’o, a consultant in the social justice movement, suggested she could get permission from her father, Prof Anyang Nyong’o who was Health minister to film in Kenyatta hospital.”
Says Audrey: “Apparently, the minister called the director of KNH and told him he was aware that a gender change operation was scheduled for the following day and advised him against allowing the operation to proceed. I arrived the following morning ready for my operation and my urologist informed me the operation had been cancelled.”
