- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Ambiguous
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Timor-Leste is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Timor-Leste is unrecognized.
Article 1467 (Notion of marriage): Marriage is the contract concluded between two people of different sex who want to start a family through a full communion of life, in accordance with the provisions of this Code.
Article 1517 (Non-existent marriages): 1. It is legally non-existent: e) Marriage contracted by two people of the same sex.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Timor-Leste is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Timor-Leste is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Timor-Leste is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Timor-Leste is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Timor-Leste is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Timor-Leste is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Timor-Leste is ambiguous.
Same-sex adoption in Timor-Leste is single only.
1. Two people who have been married for more than four years and have not been legally separated from people and goods or in fact can adopt, if both are over twenty-five years old.
2. Those who are over thirty years of age can also adopt or, if the adopting is the child of the adopter's spouse, more than twenty five years.
3. Only those who are not over sixty years old on the date on which the minor was entrusted to them can adopt, and from the age of fifty the age difference between the adopter and the adopted person cannot exceed fifty years..
Intersex infant surgery in Timor-Leste is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Timor-Leste is ambiguous.
-Decree-Law No. 3/2021 that Approves the Regulation of the Military Service Law.
-Decree-Law No. 33/2020 on the Statute of Military Personnel of Timor-Leste Defence Forces.
Regarding the National Police of Timor-Leste, there are three legal provisions that explicitly protect LGB people from discrimination:
-Decree-Law No. 44 /2020 Disciplinary Regulation of the National Police of Timor-Leste.
-Decree-Law No. 69/2022 Professional Statute of personnel with police functions of the National Police of Timor-Leste.
-Decree-Law No. 35/2024 Statute of the Police Officers of the National Police of Timor-Leste.
Blood donations by MSMs in Timor-Leste is legal.
"Take care of people without discrimination based on nationality, ancestry, race, territory of origin, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, language, religion, political or ideological beliefs, education and economic situation or social status."
Conversion therapy in Timor-Leste is ambiguous.
Equal age of consent in Timor-Leste is equal.
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