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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Cooper Inveen

One trans woman’s fight against a bill that would criminalise Ghana’s LGBT+ community

Francis Kokoroko/Reuters

In a dimly-lit room with racks of women’s clothing, Ghanaian artist and LGBT+ activist Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi flipped through photo self-portraits illustrating her transition to womanhood.

Transitioning is not illegal in Ghana, but it will become so if a new law is passed, intended to tighten already strict anti-LGBT+ regulations which render same-sex relations illegal.

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