- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Foreign same-sex marriages recognized only
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- 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
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Ohangwena is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Ohangwena is foreign same-sex marriages recognized only.
On December 30th, 2024, the Marriage Act (2024) was assented to. The bill includes a ban on same-sex marriage. It has not come into effect though, because the Minister of Justice has not set a date on which it will come into force.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Ohangwena is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Ohangwena is legal, but requires surgery.
It was reported in 2015 that applications for change of sex are done on a case-by-case basis and are not problematic, as long as a person can provide medical reports of their sex change, which includes undergoing sex reassignment surgery. Once the application is granted, a transgender person can apply for a new identity document and passport.
Gender-affirming care in Ohangwena is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Ohangwena is not legally recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Ohangwena is no protections.
Section 139 of the Labour Act of 2004 repealed the Labour Act of 1992 which in Section 107 prohibited sexual orientation discrimination. The Labour Act 2007, does not include sexual orientation.
Same-sex adoption in Ohangwena is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Ohangwena is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Ohangwena is ambiguous.
Blood donations by MSMs in Ohangwena is legal.
Conversion therapy in Ohangwena is not banned.