- 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
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Maldives is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in Maldives is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Maldives is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Maldives is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Maldives is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Maldives is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Maldives is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Maldives is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Maldives is unknown.
Intersex infant surgery in Maldives is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Maldives is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Maldives is ambiguous.
Section 2.8 of the National Guideline on Clinical Use of Blood (2022) states that "Prospective donors are assessed for suitability to donate blood depending on their general health, wellbeing, medical history, lifestyle behaviours and any risks pertaining to transfusion transmitted infections."
Conversion therapy in Maldives is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Maldives is n/a.
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