- 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
Public Opinion
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Suggest Public Opinion DataHistory
Homosexual activity in Maseru is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Maseru is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Maseru is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Maseru is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
May possibly change gender under the National Identity Cards Act 9 of 2011.
Gender-affirming care in Maseru 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 Maseru is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Maseru 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 Maseru is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Maseru is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Maseru is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Maseru is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Maseru is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Maseru is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Maseru is not banned.