- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Public opinion in Jordan has shown a widespread rejection of LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting a critical situation for LGBTQ+ individuals.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 5 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Jordan.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Homosexual activity in Jordan is legal.
In 2014, for example, Jordan authorities arrested 10 gay men and women who were holding a reception at a party hall. A security official said it was to "prevent a disturbance of the peace" but did not elaborate.
Public opinion data shows that homosexuality is widely seen as unacceptable.
Same-sex marriage in Jordan is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Jordan is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Jordan is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Jordan is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Jordan is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Jordan is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Jordan is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Jordan is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Jordan is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Jordan is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Jordan is legal.
Conversion therapy in Jordan is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Jordan is equal.