- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭Unknown
- Censorship
- Unknown
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Rafah 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.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Rafah is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Right to change legal gender in Rafah 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 Rafah is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized under federal Palestine law
There are no laws legally recognizing non-binary genders.
LGBT employment discrimination in Rafah is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in Rafah is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Serving openly in military in Rafah is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
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