- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (up to life in prison as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Songwe is illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in Songwe is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Songwe is state-enforced.
The 1981 Penal Code criminalises selling, distributing or exhibiting "materials that are tending to corrupt morals" in Article 175 which is often used to censor LGBTIQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Songwe is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Songwe is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Songwe is illegal in some contexts.
Section 11(2)(d) of The Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television Broadcasting Content) Regulations 2018 reads: "A licensee shall not broadcast any matter which incites or perpetuates hatred or vilify any person or section of the community on account of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual preference, age, disability, religion or culture of that person or section of the community."
LGBT employment discrimination in Songwe is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Songwe is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Songwe is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Songwe is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Songwe is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Songwe is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Songwe is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Songwe is n/a.