Ghana’s Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 is not against the personhood and disposition of members of what is called the LGBTQIA+ community, a former Ambassador of Ghana to Canada, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has said.

“It’s the promotion they are talking [against, rather],” he asserted.

He sat with Class Media Group (CMG) Chief Executive and host of the brand-new Master of the Game show, Kwesi Kyei Darkwah (KKD).

Describing people of the LGBTQIA+ fold, the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice said, “These are natural people who have the natural defects.”

He indicated he had the same defect, in his case having a body that suggests femininity.

“Like me – my mother always told me, ‘You, when you wear no-collar [shirts], you look like a female, your body, and all that’,” Mr Ayikoi Otoo explained.

He said these features are visible from very early in an individual’s life.

Ghana is not hostile to queer people, he argued.

“We’ve tolerated them, calling them ‘Kojo the Girl’ [for instance],” he noted.

However, “should we promote it, and tell a girl that, ‘You’re born naturally a girl but if you feel like a boy do transgender things and call yourself a boy?’,” he quizzed.

“Is this proper, helping and promoting them?”

He suggested the gender theory prevalent among queer people planted foreign and concerning thoughts in the minds of innocent people.

The diplomat cited teachers who “force” left-handed pupils to change by slapping their hands, intimating it was an example of an effective corrective measure.

KKD, a left-handed personality, said when he was punished by his teacher, his father confronted them. He suggested such approaches to people who were different from the majority of members in society betrayed a feeble mind.

“We are saying [we are against] the promotion. That’s what I understand,” he responded.

“We know them. A lot of the men – Kojo the Girl – go into hairstyling. We know them. Let them live. Let them exist. I don’t think that law is aimed towards them. They are saying the promotion, teaching people about gender [theories] and the rest is what we don’t want.”