- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is male illegal, female legal.
Same-sex marriage in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is illegal.
People cannot legally change their gender in Guyana.
Gender-affirming care in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is illegal.
4050.
a. Definition. Homosexuality is the unnatural tendency of a man or woman to have
sexual inclinations towards a member of his or her own sex. Buggery i.e. sodomy, is an
offence at common law, the punishment for which is fixed by the Offences Against the
Person Act, section 76.
b. Involvement. Involvement in homosexual and buggery practices will normally
result in discharge from the Force either by disciplinary or administrative procedure. The
same applies to other forms of sexual deviancy such as sadism, transvestism and carnal
abuse of minors.
c. Discouragement. All Ranks must discourage such practices and are in no
way to condone homosexual or other deviant acts which come to their notice and should
report them to their superiors as a matter of priority. In particular, officers, warrant
officers and NCOs are to be especially alert for attempts to involve young members of
the Force.
d. Alteration of sexual organs/parts of the body.
(1) Members of the GDF are not to subject themselves to hormonal or surgical
alterations to obtain the character of the opposite sex. These include
augmentation/ enlargement of the male/female sexual organs and other body
parts.
(2) Members of the GDF are forbidden to engage in transvestite behaviours.
Such behaviours refer primarily to cross dressing.
e. Reports. Commanding Officers are to report details of all cases of actual or
suspected homosexuality or other deviant behaviour to the Headquarters, which will
advise whether disciplinary or administrative action is appropriate.
f. Discharge. Where an application for discharge is to be made, the Rank is to be reminded of his right to have audience with the competent military authority in respect of his application.
g. Recruits. All recruits are to be warned of the Force‟s policy on homosexuality
and buggery before the final decision is made about joining, and warnings are to be
included in lectures at training establishments.
Blood donations by MSMs in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is legal.
Conversion therapy in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is n/a.