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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭Unknown
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- Unknown
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Barbuda is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Antigua and Barbuda, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Barbuda is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Barbuda is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
No way to change legal gender, including non-binary.
LGBT discrimination in Barbuda is illegal.
Current status
Since Jul 5, 2022
Illegal
As a result of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court's ruling that decriminalized sodomy, references to sex in the constitution were interpreted to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories against discrimination.
"In giving a liberal and purposive interpretation to section 14(3) of the Constitution the reference to “sex” ought not to merely reference a physical gender. Such an approach would be too linear and restrictive. The reference to “sex” would necessarily encompass concepts such as gender identity, sexual character, and sexual orientation. It would be self-defeating to the constitutional provision if the notion of sex were to be separated from matters of sexual orientation and sexual identification since the concept of sex as a physical gender carries with it a perception of how people identify and are oriented even in those instances when the identification and orientation are stereotypical or traditional in nature."
"In giving a liberal and purposive interpretation to section 14(3) of the Constitution the reference to “sex” ought not to merely reference a physical gender. Such an approach would be too linear and restrictive. The reference to “sex” would necessarily encompass concepts such as gender identity, sexual character, and sexual orientation. It would be self-defeating to the constitutional provision if the notion of sex were to be separated from matters of sexual orientation and sexual identification since the concept of sex as a physical gender carries with it a perception of how people identify and are oriented even in those instances when the identification and orientation are stereotypical or traditional in nature."
LGBT employment discrimination in Barbuda is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in Barbuda is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Intersex infant surgery in Barbuda is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Serving openly in military in Barbuda is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Blood donations by MSMs in Barbuda is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Equal age of consent in Barbuda is equal.