- Homosexuality
- ⚢Ambiguous
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
Recent studies in Egypt indicate societal resistance to LGBTQ+ rights.
History
Homosexual activity in Egypt is ambiguous.
Same-sex marriage in Egypt is banned.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Egypt is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Egypt is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Egypt is not legally recognized.
Any gender beyond the binary cisgender model is officially treated as an illness.
LGBT discrimination in Egypt is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Egypt is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Egypt is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Egypt is illegal.
Serving openly in military in Egypt is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Egypt is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Egypt is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Egypt is n/a.
LGBT Rights by Governorate
View the LGBT laws in each individual governorate of Egypt.
- Ad Daqahliyah
- Al Bahr al Ahmar
- Al Buhayrah
- Al Fayyum
- Al Gharbiyah
- Al Iskandariyah
- Al Ismā`īlīyah
- Al Jizah
- Al Minufiyah
- Al Minya
- Al Qahirah
- Al Qalyubiyah
- Al Wadi al Jadid
- al-Uqsur
- As Suways
- As Sādis min Uktūbar
- Ash Sharqiyah
- Aswan
- Asyut
- Bani Suwayf