- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- Ambiguous
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Chalatenango is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Chalatenango is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Chalatenango is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Chalatenango is ambiguous.
Gender-affirming care in Chalatenango is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Chalatenango is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Chalatenango is illegal in some contexts.
Protection against LGBT discrimination in:
Health: Ministerial Agreement No. 202 (2009), Law 307 (2016).
Public empleoyment: Decree No. 56 (2010).
Clinical practice for students: Law 227 (2019)
Education: Law 431 (2022).
Hate crime law includes sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT employment discrimination in Chalatenango is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Chalatenango is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Chalatenango is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Chalatenango is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Chalatenango is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Chalatenango is banned (indefinite deferral).
Annex No.2 shows the form that a person must fill out in order to donate blood. Of the 34 questions on the form, question 27 stands out (Have you or your partner engaged in risky sexual behavior?) because the annex shows a brief description, and in the description, it is stated that people with risky sexual behaviors are men who have sex with their own sex, men or women who have had sex with a bisexual partner, and according to the manual, those people are not eligible to donate blood.
Conversion therapy in Chalatenango is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Chalatenango is unknown.
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