- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Foreign same-sex marriages recognized only
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- 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 with restrictions
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in Amazonas is foreign same-sex marriages recognized only.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Amazonas is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Amazonas is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
In July 2020, the Third Transitory Constitutional Court of the Superior Court of Lima ordered in its Judgment No. 12 (2020) that the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC) must develop a procedure to rectify the name, sex and image components of the ID documents of trans and intersex persons, through an administrative procedure without pathologising requirements. However, RENIEC appealed this judgment and the final resolution is still pending.
In 2021, five years after it was originally submitted, the Parliamentary Commission for Women and Family of the Peruvian Congress provided its opinion on the Gender Identity Bill (Bill No. 790-2016) (2016). As of January 2023, the bill is still pending.
Moroever, in September of 2021, local media reported that for the first time in Peruvian history, a civil court ruled in favour of a trans woman who requested to change her name and sex on her DNI without undergoing gender affirmation surgery. (ILGA)
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Amazonas is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Amazonas is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Amazonas is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Amazonas is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Amazonas is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Amazonas is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Amazonas is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Amazonas is legal with restrictions.
Conversion therapy in Amazonas is banned.
Equal age of consent in Amazonas is equal.