- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- 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
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Mafeteng is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Mafeteng is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Mafeteng is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Mafeteng is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
May possibly change gender under the National Identity Cards Act 9 of 2011.
Gender-affirming care in Mafeteng is restricted.
However, neither sex reassignment surgery nor hormone replacement is available in Lesotho leaving people to go to South Africa for healthcare.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Mafeteng is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Mafeteng 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 Mafeteng is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Mafeteng is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Mafeteng is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Mafeteng is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Mafeteng is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Mafeteng is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Mafeteng is not banned.