- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- 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
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Ma`an 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 Ma`an is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Ma`an is imprisonment as punishment.
Additionally, the 1960 Penal Code criminalises “men who disguise themselves as women” entering women’s spaces with imprisonment, criminalising the gender expression of trans women and cross dressers.
Right to change legal gender in Ma`an is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Ma`an is banned.
The law points out a difference between gender change and gender reassignment, which is used for intersex people based on endosexnormative norms of correction and is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Ma`an is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Ma`an is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Ma`an is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Ma`an is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Ma`an is illegal.
Serving openly in military in Ma`an is don't ask, don't tell.
Conversion therapy in Ma`an is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Ma`an is equal.