- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Central Region is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
In June of 2024, Malawi's Constitutional Court upheld the laws that criminalize homosexuality after a challenge was made.
Same-sex marriage in Central Region is banned.
The law also criminalises heterosexual relationships between transgender and cisgender people of the opposite gender by determining gender as the sex assigned at birth.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Central Region is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Central Region is illegal.
Section 20(1) provides that where a change in particulars of a registered
person materially affect his registration, the district registrar shall record
the change and notify the Director of the circumstances and recommend
that the person be issued with a new identity card.
Section 21(1) provides that every registered person may, when he is
satisfied that his appearance has changed so as to make it likely that his
identity may be questioned, apply to the district registrar for the issue of
a new card with a more recent photograph.
Gender-affirming care in Central Region is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Central Region is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Central Region is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Central Region is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Central Region is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Central Region is unknown.
Intersex infant surgery in Central Region is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Central Region is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Central Region is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Central Region is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Central Region is n/a.