Eldoret ‘Female’ Athlete claims He is a Trans Gender, Demands Special Cells

Shieys in Court on Thursday. The accused claims to be transgender. [Source: Nation Media Twitter]
Shieys Chepkosgei, the man who was charged with impersonating a female nurse at Moi Teaching and Referal Hospital in Eldoret  MTRH, has claimed to be a transgender.

The man whose actual names are Hillary Kiprotich has demanded for special cells saying that his state can’t allow him to be put together with male or female inmates. She made the claims when he appeared before an Eldoret court.

Eldoret Women Prison

Shieys was presented in Eldoret Court on Thursday where she was charged with impersonation. She had earlier told the court that she prefers to be associated with the female gender as compared to being a man.

Records of IAAF had shown that Shieys had participated in international athletic competitions as a female. She was forced out by nurses at MTRH after they found no one in the record with his name.

He was later arrested and during a routine checkup, at the remand, the police were surprised to find out he was a man. The family of Shieys claimed not to have seen him since he left high school and was surprised too when they heard he was a nurse.

His sister told a local media house that he preferred to dress as a girl even when she was young and they just decided to let him be.

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Shieys’ exposure has since exposed the athletics fraternity in bad limelight. The AK executive member Barnabas Korir has said the national federation will consider fresh sanctions for the athlete who is already serving a doping ban that runs until next year.

We were shocked to learn that somebody can do something like that. We will wait for the government to finish up on the matter then as a federation we will also decide on the action to be taken. An act like that contravenes the code of conduct of federation and the rules of fair play,” Korir revealed in a past interview.

He had all along been remanded at Eldoret West Police Station after Chief Magistrate Charles Obulutsa last week demanded that the suspect be kept there to pave the way for further medical examination to confirm the gender.

From the court documents, the 26-year-old suspect, who is an athlete from Nandi County holds a Kenyan passport and national identity card bearing the female name ‘Shieys Chepkosgei’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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