She found fame as a Miss South Africa finalist – then hit the headlines again after revealing her genetic condition. We meet the star of an extraordinary documentary about life outside male-female categories
. The former beauty queen waves away my apology for having a croaky Covid voice. “That makes two of us! I have strep throat from all the travelling” she says. It’s her smile that sets her apart from the other impossibly beautiful finalists in footage from Miss South Africa in 2016; while they pout and pose, Khumalo stands there with a friendly beam.
Khumalo appears alongside Dimakatso Sebidi, a male-presenting intersex activist who is also from South Africa, in a powerful documentary, Who I Am Not, which is screening this week at BFI Flare, the London LGBTQIA+ film festival. I ask Khumalo why she went public. “I was quite scared of someone else telling my story,” she says. She was shocked too by how little visibility and awareness there was around intersex issues. “I was hearing conversations – not strangers or internet trolls but friends and family – and realising how misinformed people are.” One day, she had lunch with two friends who were chatting about not knowing what the “I” in LGBTQI stands for.
When Kumalo finally went to the doctor, he told her he couldn’t see a uterus or ovaries. She looked at the ultrasound feeling dumbfounded. “The biggest shock was: Oh my goodness, I don’t have a uterus. OK, so now I can’t carry kids of my own.” More tests revealed AIS.
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