- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in North-West is legal.
In 1964, Botswana later criminalized homosexual sex under article 164 and 167 of its penal code. The maximum punishment for violating these laws was seven years of imprisonment.
Until 1998, these laws only criminalised male homosexuality.
Same-sex marriage in North-West is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in North-West is no censorship.
However, there have been cases where transgender people were detained under nuisance-related charges and laws against vagrancy and idle and disorderly persons.
Right to change legal gender in North-West is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in North-West is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in North-West is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in North-West is illegal in some contexts.
The Employment Act (2010) prohibits employers from terminating contracts of employment on the basis of "sexual orientation".
There are no laws that protect gender identity from discrimination
LGBT employment discrimination in North-West is sexual orientation only.
LGBT housing discrimination in North-West is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in North-West is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in North-West is not banned.
Serving openly in military in North-West is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in North-West is banned (indefinite deferral).
In 2014, the Ministry of Health denied banning gays and lesbians from donating blood. However, the same year the National Blood Transfusion Services (NBTS) confirmed the ban.
Conversion therapy in North-West is not banned.
Equal age of consent in North-West is unknown.