- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but restricted for minors
- 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
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Sao Tome and Principe is legal.
security measures on people who habitually practice
acts against nature. The security measures may include:
a bond of good behavior, being put on probation for a
certain period, or even internment in a workhouse or
agricultural colony (from 6 months to 3 years).
Same-sex marriage in Sao Tome and Principe is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Sao Tome and Principe is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Sao Tome and Principe is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Sao Tome and Principe is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Sao Tome and Principe is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT housing discrimination in Sao Tome and Principe is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Sao Tome and Principe is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Sao Tome and Principe is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Sao Tome and Principe is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Sao Tome and Principe is legal.
Conversion therapy in Sao Tome and Principe is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Sao Tome and Principe is equal.
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