The new bill is set to provide a new measure that calls for a punishment of six months in jail or a fine of about $1,200 for cross-dressers. isn't this absurd! the citizen of a country can not dress in whichever way they deem fit any longer. na wa o
Dressed in rainbow-colored vests, members of the LGBTQ community marched in a risky demonstration in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, to protest the absurd bill introduced by lawmakers in Nigeria’s lower house of parliament in February seeking to ban cross-dressing in Nigeria.
Exactly two weeks after this bill was introducesed in the House, a mob attacked a transgender woman and was beaten and stripped in Lagos.
This is an outcome LGBTQ activists feared and the reason we say we’re fighting back. Kayode Ani is a chair at the Queer Union for Economic and Social Transformation or QUEST9ja.
What laws like this do is that they basically encourage people to take violence into their own hands, just as we had after the SSMPA was passed — individuals forming vigilantes and going into people’s homes because they suspect that they’re queer, beating them, murder them.”
The cross-dressing bill is an expanded version of Nigeria’s 2013 Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act that punishes gay sex with up to 14 years in prison.
The bill would only allow comedians to cross-dress for entertainment purposes, which will definately worsen the existing violence against nonbinary or transgender people.
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