Homosexuality
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ✖ Unrecognized
    Censorship
    ✔ No censorship
    Changing Gender
    ✔ Legal, no restrictions
    Gender-Affirming Care
    Unknown
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    Unknown
    Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Employment Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Housing Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Adoption
    ✖ Single only
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    ✖ Not banned
    Military
    ✔ Legal
    Donating Blood
    ✔ Legal
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✖ Unequal
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History

Homosexual activity in Eastern Highlands

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Homosexual activity in Eastern Highlands is legal.

Current status
Legal
Not criminalized regionally. although vilante kill people.
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Same-sex marriage in Eastern Highlands

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Same-sex marriage in Eastern Highlands is unrecognized.

Current status
Unrecognized
In all of Papua new guinea.
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Eastern Highlands

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Eastern Highlands is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Eastern Highlands, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Eastern Highlands

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Right to change legal gender in Eastern Highlands is legal, no restrictions.

Current status
Legal, no restrictions
Nationwide.
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Gender-affirming care in Eastern Highlands

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Gender-affirming care in Eastern Highlands is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Eastern Highlands

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Eastern Highlands is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

LGBT discrimination in Eastern Highlands

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LGBT discrimination in Eastern Highlands is no protections.

Current status
No protections
None exist. Only in Indonesia.
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LGBT employment discrimination in Eastern Highlands

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LGBT employment discrimination in Eastern Highlands is no protections.

Current status
No protections
None exist.
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LGBT housing discrimination in Eastern Highlands

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LGBT housing discrimination in Eastern Highlands is no protections.

Current status
No protections
None exist.
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Same-sex adoption in Eastern Highlands

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Same-sex adoption in Eastern Highlands is single only.

Current status
Single only
No other laws in place.
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Intersex infant surgery in Eastern Highlands

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Intersex infant surgery in Eastern Highlands is not banned.

Current status
Not banned under federal Papua New Guinea law
There is no ban on surgeries performed on intersex infants in Papua New Guinea.
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Serving openly in military in Eastern Highlands

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Serving openly in military in Eastern Highlands is legal.

Current status
Legal
As part of Indonesia.
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Blood donations by MSMs in Eastern Highlands

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Blood donations by MSMs in Eastern Highlands is legal.

Current status
Legal
Nationwide.
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Conversion therapy in Eastern Highlands

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Conversion therapy in Eastern Highlands is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
Not criminalized.
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Equal age of consent in Eastern Highlands

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Equal age of consent in Eastern Highlands is unequal.

Current status
Unequal
In all of Indonesia.
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