“LGBTQ culture should be taught in schools to children”- Former GES Director

As the conventional debate in Ghana tends to control the issue of LGBTI (Lesbian, Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Life), the former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Charles Aheto-Tsegah, called for the inclusion of the topic in the school curriculum.

While arguing for his stance, which we know is not going to go well with the extremely conservative Ghanaians, Mr. Tesgah said kids are learning about other social vices to help them stop making errors in the future and not to practice them.

“In the education system, we don’t teach children to mimic practices that they are thought, especially those that are not in the interest of the public, but it is important for our children to have [the] knowledge,” Mr Tsegah told TV3 on Thursday.

 

He added, “All of us are bent on saying for lack of knowledge our people perish. It is important that the children know that there is a certain group of individuals who say they’re LGBT+ and this is what they do and how they came about.”

 

“When taught in the school, doesn’t mean children will practice LGBT+. The comprehensive sexuality education came up…designed to address lack of knowledge that children had on this emerging social issue so that they would be informed to make a good decision,” the former Director-General of GES added.