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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBut first his cruel anti-LGBTQ bill would have to become law in Ghana<\/p>\n
Angel Maxine (Photo courtesy of AfricanArguments.org)
\nThe debate over Ghana\u2019s harsh anti-LGBTQ+ bill grew personal last\u00a0week as one of the bill\u2019s leading supporters declared that, not only should the bill be passed and enacted, but also that two individual transgender Ghana citizens should then be arrested for violating it.
\nMember of parliament Sam George set his sights on:<\/p>\n
Angel Maxine, Ghana\u2019s first openly transgender musician; and
\nHeaducator, a Ghanaian social media influencer.<\/p>\n
The so-called Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill calls for three years in prison for anyone who identifies as (\u201cholds out as\u201d) LGBTQ.
\nTheoretically that would mean the imprisonment of more than 350,000 people, based on a 2011 survey\u00a0in which 1 percent of Ghana\u2019s population said they were gay or lesbian.
\nThe bill would expand on Ghana\u2019s current law that provides a three-year prison sentence for same-sex intimacy. The new bill would add a three-year prison term for people who:<\/p>\n
Participate in gender-reassignment surgery;
\nEnter into a same-sex marriage; or
\nAttend a same-sex wedding.<\/p>\n
Sam George, a leader of Ghana\u2019s anti-LGBTQ partisans in parliament (Photo courtesy of Ghana Web)
\nThe LGBTQ+ rights group Rightify Ghana reported:
\nTwo Ghanaian transgender women, Angel Maxine and Headucator, became the focus of heated exchanges during the public hearing on the Anti-LGBTQ Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025 before the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Ghana.
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Headucator (Photo courtesy of Instagram) But first his cruel anti-LGBTQ bill would have to become law in Ghana Angel Maxine (Photo courtesy of AfricanArguments.org) The debate over Ghana\u2019s harsh anti-LGBTQ+ bill grew personal last\u00a0week as one of the bill\u2019s leading supporters declared that, not only should the bill be passed and enacted, but also that two individual transgender Ghana citizens …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3659155457675267_172535249438148":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested.jpg",1124,632,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested-768x432.jpg",618,348,true],"large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested-1024x576.jpg",618,348,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested.jpg",1124,632,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested.jpg",1124,632,false],"tie-small":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested-110x75.jpg",110,75,true],"tie-medium":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested-310x165.jpg",310,165,true],"tie-large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested-310x205.jpg",310,205,true],"slider":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested-660x330.jpg",660,330,true],"big-slider":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ghana-Anti-LGBTQ-lawmaker-wants-two-trans-women-arrested-1050x525.jpg",1050,525,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDuring the proceedings, Sam George, MP for Ningo-Prampram and Minister for Communication, Digital Technology, and Innovations, cited the two individuals as examples and suggested they could face arrest and prosecution under the proposed law. His comments were widely interpreted as direct threats of enforcement against them if the bill is passed.
\nAccording to the MP, their public visibility, online content, and self-identification could fall within the scope of activities the bill seeks to criminalise, including alleged promotion of same-sex relationships and identification as LGBTQ+.
\nThis has since sparked national debate about the implications of the bill for freedom of expression and the safety of individuals perceived to be LGBTQ+.
\nThe incident underscores growing concerns among human rights observers that the bill could be used to target individuals in public life, particularly activists and content creators, as parliamentary deliberations continue on legislation that has become one of the most contentious issues in Ghana\u2019s current political landscape.<\/p>\n\n
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