Homosexuality
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ✖ Unrecognized
    Censorship
    ✖ State-enforced
    Changing Gender
    ✖ Illegal
    Gender-Affirming Care
    ✖ Banned
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    ✖ Not legally recognized
    Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Employment Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Housing Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Adoption
    ✖ Illegal
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    Unknown
    Military
    Unknown
    Donating Blood
    Ambiguous
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
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History

Homosexual activity in Djibouti

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Homosexual activity in Djibouti is legal.

Current status
Legal
Same-sex sexual activity is legal while publicly expression of sexual or gender identity is criminalized on moral ground laws.

Same-sex marriage in Djibouti

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Same-sex marriage in Djibouti is unrecognized.

Current status
Unrecognized
No laws in place for same sex marriage.
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Djibouti

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Djibouti is state-enforced.

Current status
State-enforced
There are no restrictions on LGBT content, but the authorities of Djibouti prosecute the public display of same-sex sexual conduct under laws prohibiting attacks on “good morals".
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2021120…//www.ecoi.net/de/dokument/1008973.html
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Right to change legal gender in Djibouti

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Right to change legal gender in Djibouti is illegal.

Current status
Illegal
Legal gender recognition, by which a government allows individuals to change their gender identity marker on legal and identifying documents to bring them into alignment with their gender identity, is not available.

Gender-affirming care in Djibouti

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Gender-affirming care in Djibouti is banned.

Current status
Banned
Gender-Affirming Care is banned in Djibouti
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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Djibouti

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Djibouti is not legally recognized.

Current status
Not legally recognized
Not available.
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LGBT discrimination in Djibouti

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LGBT discrimination in Djibouti is no protections.

Current status
No protections
No discrimination protections under Djibouti.
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2021120…//www.ecoi.net/de/dokument/1008973.html
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LGBT employment discrimination in Djibouti

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LGBT employment discrimination in Djibouti is no protections.

Current status
No protections
No protections.
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2021120…//www.ecoi.net/de/dokument/1008973.html
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LGBT housing discrimination in Djibouti

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LGBT housing discrimination in Djibouti is no protections.

Current status
No protections
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Same-sex adoption in Djibouti

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Same-sex adoption in Djibouti is illegal.

Current status
Since Dec 23, 2017
Illegal
While there is no laws criminalizing same sex couples, we have considered it to be illegal becouse there was never a successful adoption by an LGBTQ personnel in Djibouti.
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Intersex infant surgery in Djibouti

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Intersex infant surgery in Djibouti is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Serving openly in military in Djibouti

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Serving openly in military in Djibouti is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Blood donations by MSMs in Djibouti

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Blood donations by MSMs in Djibouti is ambiguous.

Current status
Since Sep 26, 2011
Ambiguous
Usually legal according to the American Red Cross, but not legal for LGBTQ people in Djibouti.
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Conversion therapy in Djibouti

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Conversion therapy in Djibouti is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
Not banned for lgbtq personnel in Djibouti.
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2021120…//www.ecoi.net/de/dokument/1008973.html
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Equal age of consent in Djibouti

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Equal age of consent in Djibouti is equal.

Current status
Equal
Age of consent is 18.
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LGBT Rights by Region

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