- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is state-enforced.
The 1962 Penal Code criminalises "obscenity" in public under Article 483 which has been used to persecute LGBTIQ+ people.
Article 3 of the Decree Regulating the Right of Association prohibits associations from engaging in activities that, inter alia, “breach the laws or public morals” or “offend Islam”.
Further amendments were made by Decree No. 2-04-969 in 2005, which include prohibitive provisions, such as capacities at start-up.
LGBT organisations are refused to register by the authorities.
Right to change legal gender in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra is n/a.