Anti-LGBTQI+ bill set to be read in Parliament today
The Bill is aiming to criminalize homosexuality and its related activities in Ghana has been duly gazetted and will be laid for first reading today, Monday, August 2.
Appropriately titled, “The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021”, it prescribes severe sanctions against various activities of the LGBT+ community.
When passed into law, it will punish a person who willfully commits a “grossly indecent act” with summary conviction, to a term of imprisonment of not less than six months and not more than one year.
According to the bill, a “grossly indecent act” is a misdemeanour and it means: “A public show of amorous relations between or among persons of the same sex; “A public show of amorous relations between to among persons where one or more of the persons have undergone gender sex reassignment, or “Intentional cross-dressing to portray that person is of a gender different from the gender assigned at birth with intent to engage in an act prohibited under the act.
One of the sponsors of the bill, Samuel Nartey George who is a lawmaker for Ningo Prampram said he is hopeful the bill will be passed by December this year.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
