- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
Public Opinion
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Petén is no censorship.
An attempt to ban education about trans people in school and promote further stigma was passed in 2022 but was vetoed by the President. However, there were accusations that the veto only occurred to distract the Guatemalan public from corruption cases.
Right to change legal gender in Petén is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Petén is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Petén is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Petén is illegal in some contexts.
The Code of Ethics and Integrity of the National Registry of Persons (2021) prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.
LGBT employment discrimination in Petén is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Petén is no protections.
Intersex infant surgery in Petén is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Petén is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Petén is legal.
Conversion therapy in Petén is not banned.