The minority said it will implore parliamentary procedures to enact the Anti-LGBTQI+ bill if president Akufo Addo chooses not to give his assent.
President Akufo Addo has previously expressed concerns about the financial implication of some private member’s bill despite concerns about the fate of the Anti-LGBTQI+ bill.
A bill which will criminalise the activities of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI), as well as individuals and organisations that advocate or promote the act in the country, has been laid in Parliament.
Known as the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021, it was read for the first time and the Second Deputy Speaker, Mr Andrew Asiamah Amoako, referred it to the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs for consideration and report.
The 36-page Private Member’s Bill is to provide for proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian family values, proscribe LGBTQ+ and related activities, propaganda of, advocacy for or promotion of LGBTTQQIAAP+ and related activities.
It will prohibit a person from providing or participating in any form of surgical services to enable gender reassignment or create a sexual category other than the category of a person assigned at birth, except where the surgical procedure is to correct a biological anomaly, including intersex.
The minority leader Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson suggest that, there are alternative methods to ensure the bill becomes law.
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