“Gender-neutral pronouns are transgender pronouns” – Foh Amoaning tells UG

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Moses Foh Amoaning, a private legal practitioner, has tackled the University of Ghana, following their statement regarding his claims, that the University has changed its statutes to make homosexual activities acceptable in the university.

According to Foh Amoaning, gender-neutral pronouns are transgender pronouns, adding that UG is moving away from the normal biological sex to ideology with the statutes change.

The private legal practitioner firmly maintained his position that the amendment of the University of Ghana statutes to accept gender-neutral terms like “they” and “their” is a shift towards the acceptance of LGBTQ+ activities in the university community.

Speaking in an interview on Radio Univers, Moses Foh Amoaning detailed, “There are a lot of people who are close to the Vice-Chancellor. So we prompted them, I’m not going to mention names… we said, ‘Please, can you talk to madam? We don’t understand what is happening. Can you approach her so she can explain?’

“Her answer was, ‘Oh well, this is an academic thing. It’s nothing.’ Then we said, really, this is a public university, you’re changing its statutes to reflect a culture which is LGBTQ+ driven.

I will demonstrate that DEI and inclusivity, and these pronouns, are LGBTQ+ driven. The issue can boil down to what did Professor Windari say? And I’ve quoted what he said. He said, ‘We’re changing the pronouns to get gender-neutral pronouns,’” he said.

He explained, “What is the meaning of that? Then you’re moving away from the normal biological sex to ideology. That is what it is. If the Vice-Chancellor doesn’t know, that is exactly what it is, because gender-neutral pronouns are transgender pronouns. They use ‘they, them and their’”.

He took issue with the biblical references made in the statement, saying, “I saw in their response, they were quoting the Bible. That is even perfidious. If you go to England right now, they are now ordaining homosexuals into the clergy,” he said.

He added, “Before I started challenging standard human rights opinion, everybody thought LGBT rights were human rights. I said, ‘Say who’. When you do international law research, you will see that LGBT people are never part of the international human rights framework.

His comments follow, the University of Ghana has refuted claims he Moses Foh Amoaning made over claims that the School has amended its statutes to promote LGBTQ+ activities.

According to the University of Ghana, Moses Foh Amoaning’s claims are false, misleading, and defamatory.

UG management, in a statement, revealed that the University’s recent review of its Statutes (2024) was conducted strictly in accordance with the governance procedures.

The statement read, “ The University wishes to state emphatically and without ambiguity that the allegations made by Mr Foh-Amoaning are entirely false, misleading and defamatory.

Clarification on changes in the University’s Statutes

The University’s recent review of its Statutes (2024) was conducted strictly in accordance with the governance procedures prescribed by national laws and University regulations, and we wish to state as follows:

• The University of Ghana operates strictly within the legal and regulatory framework of the Republic of Ghana

The revised Statutes of the University do not depart from national law; nos 1o the statutes introduce any provision that endorses, promotes, or “admits” LGBT+ activities as alleged.

• The changes in the Statutes merely involved replacing gender specific pronouns such as “he”, “him”, “she” or “her” with gender- neutral terms such as “they” and “their”, and additional linguistic adjustments made to represent both male and female in order to eliminate the need to continuously state he or she/him or her etc.it the Statutes.

The revisions are consistent with developments in the English language over the past two decades, where the singular “they/their/them” has become widely accepted in reputable academic, legal and religious texts. For instance, the 2011 New International Version (NIV) of the Bible uses “they/them” to refer to a singular antecedent, as in James 4:17: “If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them”, the statement clarifies.

The University further revealed it had responded to the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values inquiries and condemned Mr Foh-Amoaning n “unwarranted” and “disrespectful” attempt to personalise an institutional governance matter through an attack on the vice-chancellor.

They further demanded an immediate retraction of the statements made by Mr Foh-Amoaning, as well as a public apology to the vice-chancellor and the university community; failure will lead to appropriate legal action under Ghanaian law.

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