- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Al ‘Aqabah is legal.
In 2014, for example, Jordan authorities arrested 10 gay men and women who were holding a reception at a party hall. A security official said it was to "prevent a disturbance of the peace" but did not elaborate.
Public opinion data shows that homosexuality is widely seen as unacceptable.
Same-sex marriage in Al ‘Aqabah is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Al ‘Aqabah is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Al ‘Aqabah is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Al ‘Aqabah is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Al ‘Aqabah is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Al ‘Aqabah is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Al ‘Aqabah is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Al ‘Aqabah is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Al ‘Aqabah is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Al ‘Aqabah is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Al ‘Aqabah is legal.
Conversion therapy in Al ‘Aqabah is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Al ‘Aqabah is equal.