Noah's Case

“This story was provided via Human Rights and Equalities. Names and some details have been changed for anonymity.”

Noah was initially diagnosed as having a learning impairment and was given a statement of special educational needs/converted in 2015 into an EHCP whilst he was still in school.

He was subsequently diagnosed as having Klinefelter Syndrome sometimes called Klinefelter's, KS or XXY) . This is a condition where boys and men are born with an extra X chromosome.

Klinefelter syndrome is considered an intersex variation or termed by the NHS as a disorder of sex development ( DSD) as its chromosomal make up ( XXY) and associated sex characteristics do not fit typical binary notions of male bodies.

Noah in being the recipient of a Klinefelter Syndrome diagnosis, experienced his parents being called into their Church to speak with their Vicar who explained to them that they had clearly inherited a judgement of inherited sin and that Noah was the product of ancestral sin and that this had shown itself in Noah  being born as they said:  ‘ an intersex person, neither male or female and therefore an aberration.’

The Vicar asked the parents to bring Noah in to see the Vicar and his colleagues .

His parents never told Noah why he was going to the Vicarage and when he turned up he was shocked to hear from the Vicar and those present - a Deacon and another helper - that they wanted to see him to chat through with him his recent diagnosis.

 They told him that he was an ‘hermaphrodite’ and ‘ un-natural ‘  and that the reason for him being this way was due to ‘ ancestral sin’ , one said ‘ an ancestral curse’  and another mentioned ‘ Intergenerational curse’.

 Noah described how he became frightened at hearing these things as he explains he had it explained to him by medics sharing the diagnosis with him that having  Klinefelter was a fluke  that arises in the womb and told it was not a genetic condition that could be passed on.

 Noah’s parents who had been with him were asked to leave the room and Noah was told to stand on a carpet and the people from the church stood around him ‘ laying hands on him’.

Noah said they started shouting about sins and the iniquities of his ancestors. They called for confession and repentance from him and, then they started grabbing him harder until it hurt him, shouting at him out to reject and sever the  ties to curses, dark forces, demons occult practices and evil deeds done by his ancestors , that they said he was the sin carrier for.

They called upon Jesus and his blood and called for blessings on Noah and his family.

Noah describes the process as being terrifying and describes himself  shaking with fear which those conducting the exorcism on him took to be the ancestral demons coming out of him .

After the above , they were insistent that his parents take him for a second opinion for a further genetic test to prove that the ancestral curse had been lifted and when it was reported it had not,  they were insistent that Noah go through the process again and the next times were  with more people.

Their efforts, they said, were to cure Noah of having Klinefelter Syndrome .

Noah’s sisters contacted me (Chrissy Meleady at Human Rights and Equalities) to ask for help for Noah through my work in the Klinefelter field. Despite Noah being a vulnerable adult, regard to this fact was not given and services took it, that he voluntarily entered into these exorcisms - described as being deliverance prayer sessions-, and had not objected.

Noah under familial and church pressure describes how he felt he could not object but was coerced into these sessions and in the first one duped into it.

He describes how he became too frightened to leave the house thinking everyone was judging him for having Klinefelter and considering that he was possessed by an ancestral curse that manifested itself in demons living within him.

Noah is living  away from home with his sisters and under their protection and we secured for him counselling and private tuition so he can go after his dream. He is now in his first year of university studying animation .

For a long while he turned away from his religion as a result of his experiences but is now only retuning to church , as a result of us finding for him. an inclusive church that embraces him and his condition. This has been a major positive step for him as his religion was vitally important to him but he felt he no longer belonged and was looked  upon and treated as ‘ an aberration ‘ for being born with Klinefelter Syndrome’