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– –<\/span> Maxine who was born a man but switched genders while growing up is officially Ghana\u2019s first transgender musician and one of the most vocal LGTQ+ proponents.<\/p>\n Angel Maxine told the BBC that she has accepted herself and embraced her biological difference hence there\u2019s nothing anybody could do about it.<\/p>\n She revealed that she started displaying effeminate traits as early as birth when medical personnel were puzzled about her gender, although she had a penis.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> \u201cEven right at the hospital, they couldn\u2019t tell my gender. They will be like, is this a male or this is female? They have to unwrap me and take me all around for them to see that oh, this one has a penis oo!\u201d<\/p>\n She threw more light on her background while growing up.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> \u201cI always felt like I was living somebody else\u2019s life. Kojo Besia\u2026 Obaaberima\u2026 It got to some point I owned it. So when you call me Kojo Besia, Obaa Berima, I\u2019m like, \u2018hello, hi\u2019. I just owned it. I am popularly known as Angel Maxine, and I\u2019m Ghana\u2019s first openly transgender musician,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n She also talked about the fact LGBTQ+ is not foreign contrary to the belief some conservative people hold.<\/p>\n \u201cAngel didn\u2019t go and pick anybody\u2019s lifestyle or anybody\u2019s culture. I was effeminate from birth. Even though I had backlashes from family and other people, I was like, I was really tired, and this is me. So I started doing my music openly, wearing my short pants, my Santiago boots and all that.<\/p>\n And that was where I really saw myself like, \u2018Hey, this is me. This is the beautiful picture I\u2019ve always been seeing, and this is what I want to show outside.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> – – Angel Maxine has exclusively told the BBC that despite the constant prejudice and ostracisation they face in Ghana, they will sustain their existence. Maxine who was born a man but switched genders while growing up is officially Ghana\u2019s first transgender musician and one of the most vocal LGTQ+ proponents. Angel Maxine told the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2133,866,18328,85,250,19865,19866,1045,746,521,19867],"class_list":["post-1143306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-angel","tag-bbc","tag-existence","tag-ghana","tag-ghanas","tag-immemorial","tag-maxine","tag-musician","tag-speaks","tag-time","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nAngel Maxine has exclusively told the BBC that despite the constant prejudice and ostracisation they face in Ghana, they will sustain their existence.<\/h2>\n
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