- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- Ambiguous
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Research in attittudes towards LGBTQ+ issues in Lesotho have identified a strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting underlying homophobic sentiments.
History
Homosexual activity in Lesotho is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Lesotho is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Lesotho is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Lesotho is ambiguous.
According to amendment of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs must amend the national register to provide for persons who have undergone “sex change operations” to change their “sex” identity marker on legal and identifying documents.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Lesotho is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Lesotho is illegal in some contexts.
The Labor Code (2024) bans discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation. It bans violence, harassment and sexual harassment based on gender identity.
LGBT employment discrimination in Lesotho is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Lesotho is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Lesotho is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Lesotho is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Lesotho is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Lesotho is legal.
Conversion therapy in Lesotho is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Lesotho is equal.
LGBT Rights by District
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