It is widely expected that the bill will win enough votes to become law in Ghana, a deeply religious society where homophobic persecution is widespread. It enjoys cross-party support, with Ghana's parliamentary speaker, Alban Bagbin openly backing the proposed law. The bill, entitled "The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021" was submitted to Ghana's parliament in June. The law would also make it a crime to be LGBTQ - it would be punishable by five years in prison for any person to identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, transsexual, queer, pansexual or non-binary (someone who doesn't identify as male or female). If the bill is passed, people of the same sex who engage in sexual activity could be fined or jailed for between three to five years. Now the West African country wants to go a step further in its efforts to outlaw the LGBTQ community. Ghana's laws already criminalize gay sex by forbidding "unnatural carnal knowledge".
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