Homosexuality
    ⚢
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ⚭
    ✖ Banned
    Censorship
    ✔ No censorship
    Changing Gender
    ✖ Illegal
    Gender-Affirming Care
    ✔ Legal
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    ✖ Not legally recognized
    Discrimination
    ✔ Illegal
    Employment Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Housing Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Adoption
    ✖ Single only
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    Unknown
    Military
    ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
    Donating Blood
    ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
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Research in attittudes towards LGBTQ+ issues in Honduras have identified a strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting underlying homophobic sentiments.

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Support for same-sex marriage

(CID Gallup, 2018)
17%
Support
75%
Oppose
10%
Neutral

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History

Homosexual activity in Honduras

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Homosexual activity in Honduras is legal.

Current status
Since Mar 12, 1985
Legal
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Same-sex marriage in Honduras

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Same-sex marriage in Honduras is banned.

Current status
Since May 4, 2005
Banned
The 2005 constitution explicitly prohibits the marriage or union between two people of the same sex
Details
Sources:
honduras.com/honduras-const…
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Honduras

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Honduras is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Honduras, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Honduras

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Right to change legal gender in Honduras is illegal.

Current status
Illegal
Transgender people have not been legally recognized. In 2019, five LGBTI rights defenders filed an unconstitutional appeal against the National Registry of Persons Act on the grounds that there is no procedure for them to request or effect a name change in accordance with their perceived identity.

The appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court of Justice in November 2022, although the State of Honduras is required to create a procedure for legal recognition of gender identity under a 2020 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
Details
Sources:
nationalgeographic.com/maga…
latribuna.hn/2022/05/18/rnp…
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Gender-affirming care in Honduras

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Gender-affirming care in Honduras is legal.

Current status
Since 2008
Legal
In 2008, Honduras adopted the ICD-10 classification, which contains codes for diagnosing transsexualism in adulthood and childhood, which authorize the initiation of medical transition.
Details
Sources:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/…
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Legal, but restricted for minors
In 1979, Honduras adopted the ICD-9 classification, which included codes allowing for the diagnosis of transsexualism in adults.
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Sources:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/…
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Until 1979
Banned
Medical transition is not possible
Details
Sources:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/…
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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Honduras

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

Current status
Not legally recognized
No non-binary options on documents.
Details
Sources:
nationalgeographic.com/maga…
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LGBT discrimination in Honduras

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LGBT discrimination in Honduras is illegal.

Current status
Since Feb 22, 2013
Illegal
Article 321 of the penal code was amended to protect LGBT individual from discrimination. Implementation of this law however has not yet been found.
Details
Sources:
refworld.org/docid/52ce9e6e4.html
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LGBT employment discrimination in Honduras

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LGBT employment discrimination in Honduras is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Feb 22, 2013
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under hundras criminal code.
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LGBT housing discrimination in Honduras

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LGBT housing discrimination in Honduras is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Feb 22, 2017
Sexual orientation and gender identity
under the Honduras Criminal Code.
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Same-sex adoption in Honduras

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Same-sex adoption in Honduras is single only.

Current status
Since Dec 19, 2017
Single only
No laws in place for same sex couples.
Details
Sources:
rainbowkids.com/internation…
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Intersex infant surgery in Honduras

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Intersex infant surgery in Honduras is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Serving openly in military in Honduras

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Serving openly in military in Honduras is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.

Current status
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
No known restrictions for anyone regardless of sexual orientation
Details
Sources:
france24.com/en/live-news/2…
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Blood donations by MSMs in Honduras

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Blood donations by MSMs in Honduras is banned (indefinite deferral).

Current status
Banned (indefinite deferral)
Hondurans and foreigners are not allowed to donate blood, LGBTQ+ people too.
Details
Sources:
elheraldo.hn/honduras/traba…
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Conversion therapy in Honduras

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Conversion therapy in Honduras is not banned.

Current status
Since Apr 20, 2016
Not banned
Conversion therapy ban pending.
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Equal age of consent in Honduras

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Equal age of consent in Honduras is equal.

Current status
Equal
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