President Akufo Addo and US Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday 27th March , 2023 addressed the media in Ghana with regards to gay rights in America and the impending Anti Gay Bill yet to be passed by Ghana Parliament.
Hosted at the Jubilee House in Accra Ghana, Nana Addo divulged that there’s no legislation in Ghana that criminalises same sex marriage in Ghana. He however added that the proposed anti gay bill isn’t an official bill by the country’s legislature, but a private member bill .
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Kamala Harris on the other hand sticked to her guns on protecting the rights of all LGBTQ + individuals in her country, America.
The US vice president and husband are currently on a nine day tour in Africa to solidify America’s relationship with some of the African countries . She will be spending three days in Ghana , and afterwards visit Zambia and Tanzania to strengthen their ties.
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The Ghanaian anti-LGBT bill (or formally Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill) is a proposed law in Ghana that would introduce wide-ranging restrictions on GAY rights.
Homosexuality in Ghana was first criminalised under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, when Ghana was under British rule. The Act was implemented in all British colonies. Following independence, Section 104 of the Ghanaian Criminal Code of 1960 criminalised “unnatural carnal knowledge.”
The bill is 36 pages long and describes its objective as “to provide for proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian family values; proscribe LGBTQ+ and related activities; proscribe propaganda of, advocacy for or promotion of LGBTTQQIAAP+ and related activities; provide for the protection of and support for children, persons who are victims or accused of LGBTTQQIAAP+ and related activities and other persons; and related matters.”
Among the provisions of the bill are:
- 3 to 5 years of imprisonment for engaging in same-sex intercourse;
- 5 to 10 years of imprisonment for anyone who produces, procures, or distributes material deemed to be promoting LGBT+ activities;
- A requirement for citizens and institutions to “promote and protect proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian family values”;
- 6 months to 1 year imprisonment for a “public show of amorous relations” between people of the same sex;
- 6 months to 1 year imprisonment for a “public show of amorous relations ” with someone who has undergone gender reassignment or who cross-dresses;
- A ban on providing trans healthcare;
- Forced disbanding of all LGBT+ associations in Ghana, along with 6 to 10 years of imprisonment for anyone taking part in such an association;
- A ban on sponsoring LGBT+ GAY groups;
- A clause that holds owners of digital platforms or physical premises in which LGBT+ groups organise equally guilty of promoting LGBT+ activities;
- Prohibition of same-sex marriage;
- Prohibition of marriage to people who have undergone gender reassignment;
- 6 to 10 years of imprisonment for anyone who teaches children about LGBT+ activities or teaches that there are more genders than the gender binary;
- A ban on adoption and fostering for LGBT+ potential parents;
- 6 months to 3 years imprisonment for anyone who harasses someone accused of being LGBT+;
- A clause allowing the government to identify questioning and intersex people and intervene, such as through therapy or through medical treatment to align an intersex person with the gender binary;
- A clause allowing the government to extradite people convicted under the bill
