Homosexuality
    ⚢
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ⚭
    ✖ Unrecognized
    Censorship
    ✔ No censorship
    Changing Gender
    ✔ Legal, no restrictions
    Gender-Affirming Care
    Unknown
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    Unknown
    Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Employment Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Housing Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Adoption
    ✔ Legal
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    ✖ Not banned
    Military
    ✔ Legal
    Donating Blood
    ✔ Legal
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✖ Unequal
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Homosexual activity in Southern Highlands

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Homosexual activity in Southern Highlands is legal.

Current status
Legal
Regionally.
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Same-sex marriage in Southern Highlands

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Same-sex marriage in Southern Highlands is unrecognized.

Current status
Unrecognized
Regionally.
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Southern Highlands

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Southern Highlands is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Southern Highlands, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Southern Highlands

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Right to change legal gender in Southern Highlands is legal, no restrictions.

Current status
Legal, no restrictions
Nationwide.
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Gender-affirming care in Southern Highlands

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Gender-affirming care in Southern Highlands is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Southern Highlands

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Southern Highlands is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

LGBT discrimination in Southern Highlands

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LGBT discrimination in Southern Highlands is no protections.

Current status
No protections
None exist.
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LGBT employment discrimination in Southern Highlands

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LGBT employment discrimination in Southern Highlands is no protections.

Current status
No protections
None exist.
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LGBT housing discrimination in Southern Highlands

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LGBT housing discrimination in Southern Highlands is no protections.

Current status
No protections
None exist.
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Same-sex adoption in Southern Highlands

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Same-sex adoption in Southern Highlands is legal.

Current status
Legal
Nationwide.
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Intersex infant surgery in Southern Highlands

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Intersex infant surgery in Southern Highlands is not banned.

Current status
Not banned under federal Papua New Guinea law
There is no ban on surgeries performed on intersex infants in Papua New Guinea.
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Serving openly in military in Southern Highlands

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Serving openly in military in Southern Highlands is legal.

Current status
Legal
Nationwide.
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Blood donations by MSMs in Southern Highlands

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Blood donations by MSMs in Southern Highlands is legal.

Current status
Legal
Nationwide.
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Conversion therapy in Southern Highlands

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Conversion therapy in Southern Highlands is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
Not criminalized.
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Equal age of consent in Southern Highlands

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Equal age of consent in Southern Highlands is unequal.

Current status
Unequal
in all of Papua new guinea.
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