- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Al Wadi al Jadid is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
There were also reports of police officers assaulting LGBTQIA people and "forcibly soliciting bribes to avoid arrest, and forcing them to provide information concerning other LGBTQI+ individuals.".
Furthermore, there are several reports of police using dating apps like Grindr or Tinder to lure LGB people into arrest on charges of debauchery or prostitution.
Same-sex marriage in Al Wadi al Jadid is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Al Wadi al Jadid is imprisonment as punishment.
The Penal Code of 1937 contains Article 178 of Law No. 58 which punishes anyone who trades or distributes material that are deemed "in violation of public morals" with imprisonment. This has been consistently used against LGBTIQ+ people especially since 2013.
Right to change legal gender in Al Wadi al Jadid is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Al Wadi al Jadid is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Al Wadi al Jadid is not legally recognized.
Any gender beyond the binary cisgender model is officially treated as an illness.
LGBT discrimination in Al Wadi al Jadid is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Al Wadi al Jadid is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Al Wadi al Jadid is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Al Wadi al Jadid is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Al Wadi al Jadid is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Al Wadi al Jadid is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Al Wadi al Jadid is legal.
Conversion therapy in Al Wadi al Jadid is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Al Wadi al Jadid is n/a.