- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- Unknown
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Gaza is male illegal, female legal.
Current status
Since 1936
Male illegal, female legal
The criminalisation of homosexual activity in Gaza dates back to the British mandate. Section 152(2) of the British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance 1936, which is still enforced in Gaza, criminalises ‘carnal knowledge against the order of nature’ with imprisonment of up to ten years. imprisonment.
Same-sex marriage in Gaza is unrecognized.
Current status
Unrecognized under federal Palestine law
In the areas administrated by the Palestinian Authority and the Gaza Strip, same-sex marriage is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Gaza is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Right to change legal gender in Gaza is illegal.
Current status
Illegal under federal Palestine law
There are no legal means to change one’s gender in Palestine. The Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank do not permit for it and in practice, trans Palestinians in the Israeli occupied territories have no access, unlike trans Israelis, as a result of movement restrictions and general disregard for Palestinian human rights.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Gaza is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized under federal Palestine law
There are no laws legally recognizing non-binary genders.
LGBT discrimination in Gaza is no protections.
Current status
No protections under federal Palestine law
There are no protections from discrimination provided to LGBTIQ+ people in Palestine.
LGBT employment discrimination in Gaza is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in Gaza is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Serving openly in military in Gaza is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Conversion therapy in Gaza is not banned.
Current status
Not banned under federal Palestine law
Conversion Theraphy is partially banned in the Occupied West Bank for Israeli Citizens but in the Gaza Strip and the areas of West Bank under the Palestinian Authorities there is no ban towards conversion theraphy for LGBT people.
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