Live Stream of the Proceedings of Wednesday, 21st February, 2024 (10th Sitting of the 1st Meeting of the 4th Session of the 8th Parliament), discussing the “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021.”
Excerpt:
LGBTTQQIAAP+ and Related Activities
Prohibition of LGBTTQQIAAP+ and related activities
6. (1) A person commits an offence if the person
(a) engages in a
(i) sexual intercourse between or among persons of the same sex;
(ii) sexual intercourse between a man and an animal or a woman and an animal; or
(iii) pansexual activity;
(b) marries or purports to marry a person who is of the same sex as that person;
© knowingly marries or purports to marry a person who has undergone gender or sex reassignment, except in the case of a person who has undergone a surgical procedure to correct a biological anomaly, including intersex;
(d) marries or purports to marry an animal;
(e) holds out as
(i) a lesbian,
(ii) a gay,
(iii) a transgender,
(iv) a transsexual,
(v) a queer,
(vi) a pansexual,
(vil) an ally,
(viii) a non-binary, or
(ix) any other sexual or gender identity that is contrary to the binary categories of male and female;
(f) provides or participates in the provision of
(i) asurgical procedure for sex or gender reassignment; or
(ii) any other procedure that is intended to create a sexual category other than the sexual category of a person assigned at birth except in the case of correcting a biological abnormality including intersex; or
(g) undergoes:
(i) a surgical procedure for sex or gender reassignment; or
(ii) any other procedure that is intended to create a sexual category other than the sexual category of the person assigned at birth except in the case of correcting a biological abnormality including intersex.
(2) A person who commits an offence under paragraph (a), (b), ©, (d), (e), (f), or (g) of subsection (1) commits a second degree felony and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than seven hundred and fifty penalty units and not more than five thousand penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than five years or both.
(3) For purposes of this section, “sexual intercourse” occurs where
(a) a person penetrates the anus or mouth of another person with the penis of that person or other contraption; or
(b) a person, by use of any object or contraption, penetrates or stimulates the vagina or anus of another person; or
© a person, by use of the penis of the person or any other object or contraption, penetrates the anus or other bodily opening of an animal
for sexual gratification.
Bill record link: https://ir.parliament.gh/handle/123456789/3045?show=full