- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- 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
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in Seychelles is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Seychelles is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Seychelles is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Seychelles is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Seychelles is illegal in some contexts.
The National Anti-Bullying Policy and Strategy for Primary, Secondary Schools and Professional Centres (2018) includes specific sections referred to homophobic bullying (Section 2.1.2(iii), Section 2.2, paragraph 4, and Section 4.3).
On 18 September 2024, the Seychelles National Assembly passed the Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2024. It bans hate-motivated offences by introducing the element of hate as an aggravating factor to any underlying offences. The hate crimes and hate speech provisions specifically include sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.
LGBT housing discrimination in Seychelles is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Seychelles is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Seychelles is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Seychelles is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Trans people cannot serve in this country as of 2023 which is the unfortunate consensus on the African continent
Blood donations by MSMs in Seychelles is legal.
Conversion therapy in Seychelles is not banned.
LGBT Rights by District
View the LGBT laws in each individual district of Seychelles.
- Anse aux Pins
- Anse Boileau
- Anse Royale
- Anse Étoile
- Au Cap
- Baie Lazare
- Baie Sainte Anne
- Beau Vallon
- Bel Air
- Bel Ombre
- Cascade
- English River
- Glacis
- Grand Anse Mahe
- Grand Anse Praslin
- La Digue
- Les Mamelles
- Mont Buxton
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- #49 Israel59
- #50 China59
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