- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (death penalty as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
Public opinion in Afghanistan has shown a widespread rejection of LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting a critical situation for LGBTQ+ individuals, based on limited public opinion data in Afghanistan.
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Suggest Public Opinion DataPerception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 5 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Afghanistan.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Homosexual activity in Afghanistan is illegal (death penalty as punishment).
Censorship of LGBT issues in Afghanistan is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Afghanistan is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Afghanistan is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Afghanistan is unknown.
LGBT discrimination in Afghanistan is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Afghanistan is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Afghanistan is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Afghanistan is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Afghanistan is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Afghanistan is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Afghanistan is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Afghanistan is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Afghanistan is n/a.
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of Afghanistan.
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