- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Butha-Buthe is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Butha-Buthe is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Butha-Buthe is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Butha-Buthe is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
May possibly change gender under the National Identity Cards Act 9 of 2011.
Gender-affirming care in Butha-Buthe is restricted.
However, neither sex reassignment surgery nor hormone replacement is available in Lesotho leaving people to go to South Africa for healthcare.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Butha-Buthe is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Butha-Buthe is illegal in some contexts.
The Labor Code (2024) bans discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation. It bans violence, harassment and sexual harassment based on gender identity.
LGBT employment discrimination in Butha-Buthe is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Butha-Buthe is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Butha-Buthe is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Butha-Buthe is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Butha-Buthe is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Butha-Buthe is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Butha-Buthe is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Butha-Buthe is unknown.