Rwanda has a progressive posture towards LGBTQ issues, but human rights NGOs want more legal recognition and protection for transgender and intersex people to ensure they don't suffer further discrimination and stigma.
Ghana's laws already criminalize gay sex by forbidding"unnatural carnal knowledge," but the West African country wants to go a step further in its efforts to outlaw the LGBTQ community.does not criminalize same-sex relationships, however members of the LGBTQ community criticize the government for not sufficiently protecting them from stigma and violence.
"Most of them are forced to leave school ... because of discrimination, isolation and all those kinds of bullying at school so with most of them, their level education is still a problem," she added.Human rights activists in the Central African country are now pushing for legal reforms that properly recognize transgender people -- those whose gender does not match the sex they were assigned at birth.
They are calling for the government to amend Rwanda's family and persons law that restricts the sex of a person to being male or female.The law, which dates back to 2006, has hindered the rights of, according to Andre Uwayezu, founder of the Wiceceka Community Support Organization, which advocates for LGBTQ rights.
"Intersex rights are violated where they get one organ removed on the orders of their parents. This is a problem that should be looked at broadly because this is a way a person was born," said Uwayezu.-- but Uwayezu said the country's progressive approach towards the issue provides hope.
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