- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Šuto Orizari is legal.
Article 101, paragraph (2): for unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex, the perpetrator will be punished by imprisonment for up to one year.
Article 186: for unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex, the perpetrator shall be punished with imprisonment for up to two years.
The 1959 amendment reduced the prison sentence by one year.
Paragraph 285: for unnatural fornication between persons, the perpetrator shall be punished with strict imprisonment, unless the act turns into a more serious crime.
Paragraph 206: Unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex to be punished by imprisonment from six months to four years and loss of civil honor.
Same-sex marriage in Šuto Orizari is unrecognized.
Article 40: "Legal relations in marriage, family and cohabitation are regulated by law."
Family Law from 1992, article 6: "Marriage is a legally regulated union of life between a husband and wife in which the interests of the spouses, the family and society are realized."
Censorship of LGBT issues in Šuto Orizari is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Šuto Orizari is legal, but requires surgery.
This means that at the moment, there is no way to change one's legal gender in North Macedonia, even after surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Šuto Orizari is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Šuto Orizari is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Šuto Orizari is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Šuto Orizari is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Šuto Orizari is single only.
Also, no restrictions for LGBT singles.
Adoptive parents who live in a married or cohabiting union have priority over single people when adopting a child.
Intersex infant surgery in Šuto Orizari is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Šuto Orizari is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Šuto Orizari is legal.
Conversion therapy in Šuto Orizari is not banned.