- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Same-sex marriage in North-East is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in North-East is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in North-East is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in North-East is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in North-East is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in North-East is illegal in some contexts.
The Employment Act (2010) prohibits employers from terminating contracts of employment on the basis of "sexual orientation".
There are no laws that protect gender identity from discrimination
LGBT employment discrimination in North-East is sexual orientation only.
LGBT housing discrimination in North-East is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in North-East is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in North-East is not banned.
Serving openly in military in North-East is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in North-East is ambiguous.
In 2014, the Ministry of Health denied banning gays and lesbians from donating blood. However, the same year the National Blood Transfusion Services (NBTS) confirmed the ban.
Equal age of consent in North-East is unknown.