Ali Sabieh is governed by federal Djibouti law. Learn more
    Homosexuality
    ⚢
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ⚭
    ✖ Unrecognized
    Censorship
    ✖ State-enforced
    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
    Unknown
    Military
    Unknown
    Donating Blood
    Ambiguous
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
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History

Homosexual activity in Ali Sabieh

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Homosexual activity in Ali Sabieh is legal.

Current status
Legal
Same-sex sexual activity is legal while publicly expression of sexual or gender identity is criminalized on moral ground laws.
Details
Sources:
old.ilga.org/Statehomophobi…
2009-2017.state.gov/documen…
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Same-sex marriage in Ali Sabieh

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Same-sex marriage in Ali Sabieh is unrecognized.

Current status
Unrecognized
No laws in place for same sex marriage.
Details
Sources:
database.ilga.org/djibouti-lgbti
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Ali Sabieh

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Ali Sabieh is state-enforced.

Current status
State-enforced
There are no restrictions on LGBT content, but the authorities of Djibouti prosecute the public display of same-sex sexual conduct under laws prohibiting attacks on “good morals".
Details
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2021120…//www.ecoi.net/de/dokument/1008973.html
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Right to change legal gender in Ali Sabieh

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Right to change legal gender in Ali Sabieh is illegal.

Current status
Illegal
Legal gender recognition, by which a government allows individuals to change their gender identity marker on legal and identifying documents to bring them into alignment with their gender identity, is not available.
Details
Sources:
state.gov/reports/2022-coun…

nationalgeographic.com/maga…
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Gender-affirming care in Ali Sabieh

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Gender-affirming care in Ali Sabieh is banned.

Current status
Banned
Gender-Affirming Care is banned in Djibouti
Details
Sources:
wikimili.com/en/LGBT_rights…
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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Ali Sabieh

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Ali Sabieh is not legally recognized.

Current status
Not legally recognized
Not available.
Details
Sources:
state.gov/reports/2022-coun…
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LGBT discrimination in Ali Sabieh

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LGBT discrimination in Ali Sabieh is no protections.

Current status
No protections
No discrimination protections under Djibouti.
Details
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2021120…//www.ecoi.net/de/dokument/1008973.html
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LGBT employment discrimination in Ali Sabieh

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LGBT employment discrimination in Ali Sabieh is no protections.

Current status
No protections
No protections.
Details
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2021120…//www.ecoi.net/de/dokument/1008973.html
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LGBT housing discrimination in Ali Sabieh

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LGBT housing discrimination in Ali Sabieh is no protections.

Current status
No protections
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Same-sex adoption in Ali Sabieh

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Same-sex adoption in Ali Sabieh is illegal.

Current status
Since Dec 23, 2017
Illegal
While there is no laws criminalizing same sex couples, we have considered it to be illegal becouse there was never a successful adoption by an LGBTQ personnel in Djibouti.
Details
Sources:
travel.state.gov/content/ad…
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Intersex infant surgery in Ali Sabieh

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Intersex infant surgery in Ali Sabieh is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Serving openly in military in Ali Sabieh

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Serving openly in military in Ali Sabieh is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Blood donations by MSMs in Ali Sabieh

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Blood donations by MSMs in Ali Sabieh is ambiguous.

Current status
Since Sep 26, 2011
Ambiguous
Usually legal according to the American Red Cross, but not legal for LGBTQ people in Djibouti.
Details
Sources:
redcross.org/news/article/A…
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Conversion therapy in Ali Sabieh

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Conversion therapy in Ali Sabieh is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
Not banned for lgbtq personnel in Djibouti.
Details
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2021120…//www.ecoi.net/de/dokument/1008973.html
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Equal age of consent in Ali Sabieh

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Equal age of consent in Ali Sabieh is equal.

Current status
Equal
Age of consent is 18.
Details
Sources:
old.ilga.org/Statehomophobi…
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