Lawyer and anti-LGBTQ+ advocate, Moses Foh-Amoaning, has refused to retract his claim that the University of Ghana (UG) is promoting LGBTQ+ ideology through recent amendments to its statutes.
This follows changes in the University’s statutes, where gender-specific pronouns such as “he” and “she” were replaced with the gender-neutral “they,” which the University says was done for the sake of simplicity.
Speaking on Campus Exclusive on Radio Univers, the lawyer stated that he stands by his comments, insisting that the amendments to the pronouns in the statutes amount to the promotion of LGBTQ+ ideology. He further said he is prepared to face the University in court should legal action be taken.
“Note of caution to everybody in the University management: I have been served with a copy of the letter saying I should retract, and that if I don’t, I’ll face legal action. Well, I’m waiting for that legal action,” he said. “Please preserve every single document on how you arrived at changing the statutes because if this becomes a legal action — and I’m waiting for it — then there will be discovery and we are going to go into details as to how this decision was arrived at.”
Referring to the statement released by the University on November 24, which indicated that the changes were also in line with developments in the English language, Mr Foh-Amoaning insisted that the introduction of gender-neutral pronouns endorses LGBTQ+.
“These pronouns are LGBTQ+ driven. Gender-neutral pronouns are transgender pronouns. They and them are plural pronouns used by transgender people who call themselves non-binary,” he stated.
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Story by Glorious Naa Deedei Quaye | univers.ug.edu.gh
Edited by Gabriel Tecco Mensah
