A group of Ugandan scientists have made clear they believe being gay, bisexual or transgender is completely normal.

This is in direct contradiction to President Yoweri Museveni, who signed the defunct Jail The Gays into law on the basis he believed homosexuality to be unnatural. It was later repealed by the Constituional Court.

When he signed the law, he cited a group of ‘scientists’ who did a study that found ‘homosexuality is not a disease but merely an abnormal behavior which may be learned through experiences in life.’

This study was found to be completely corrupted and the results were changed to suit their needs at the time.

And now, the Ugandan National Academy of Sciences have endorsed a report making clear that homosexuality is a ‘natural phenomena’.

One of the observations states: ‘Homosexuality is not a disease but merely an abnormal behavior which may be learned through experiences in life.’

The report, Diversity in Human Sexuality: Implications for Policy in Africa and published by Assaf, found there can be ‘no justifications to "eliminate" lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons from society.’.

‘Sociobehavioural research shows that people do not feel that they have a choice in their sexuality,’ it found.

‘Sexuality is not linked to the way parents bring up their children and sexual orientation cannot be “acquired” through the people with whom you associate.’

Dr Glenda Gray, head of the Medical Research Council, has said they wanted a ‘rational approach to the very irrational response [by African governments] to gender and sexual diversity’.

And Dr Sylvia Tamale, a prominent academic and founder of the Law, Gender and Sexuality Research Project in Uganda says this is very important as this is one of the first pro-gay studies done in Africa by people who are not white.

But while it is still likely to be dismissed by lawmakers, she told the Mail and Guardian that it will hopefully show the public that ‘homosexuality is not unAfrican’.