- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is unrecognized.
The FBH constitution does not mention marriage.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not legally recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is illegal.
Only married partners and non-marital partners who have lived in the community for at least 5 years can fully adopt (Article 102). Incomplete adoption is allowed only to married partners without restrictions, and with the existence of particularly justified reasons, this type of adoption can also be enabled for non-marital partners who have lived in the community for at least 5 years and for single people (Article 104).
Intersex infant surgery in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is legal.
Conversion therapy in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is equal.