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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Atlántida is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Honduras, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Atlántida is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
Transgender people have not been legally recognized. In 2019, five LGBTI rights defenders filed an unconstitutional appeal against the National Registry of Persons Act on the grounds that there is no procedure for them to request or effect a name change in accordance with their perceived identity.
The appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court of Justice in November 2022, although the State of Honduras is required to create a procedure for legal recognition of gender identity under a 2020 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
The appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court of Justice in November 2022, although the State of Honduras is required to create a procedure for legal recognition of gender identity under a 2020 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
Gender-affirming care in Atlántida is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Atlántida is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
No non-binary options on documents.
LGBT discrimination in Atlántida is illegal.
Current status
Since Feb 22, 2013
Illegal
Article 321 of the penal code was amended to protect LGBT individual from discrimination. Implementation of this law however has not yet been found.
Same-sex adoption in Atlántida is illegal.
Current status
Since Sep 2018
Illegal
The last paragraph of Article 22 of the Special Adoption Law establishes that "It is prohibited to give girls or boys or adults for adoption to marriages or de facto unions formed by persons of the same sex."
Intersex infant surgery in Atlántida is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Serving openly in military in Atlántida is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Current status
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
No known restrictions for anyone regardless of sexual orientation
Equal age of consent in Atlántida is equal.
Current status
Equal
In Honduras, according to Article 249 of the Penal Code (2020), the age of consent is 14 years of age.
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