- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Sierra Leone is male illegal, female legal.
Same-sex marriage in Sierra Leone is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Sierra Leone is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Sierra Leone is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Sierra Leone is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Sierra Leone is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Sierra Leone is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Sierra Leone is ambiguous.
LGBT housing discrimination in Sierra Leone is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Sierra Leone is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Sierra Leone is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Sierra Leone is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Sierra Leone is legal.
Conversion therapy in Sierra Leone is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Sierra Leone is equal.
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of Sierra Leone.
- Eastern
- Northern
- Southern
- Western Area (Region)