- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- Ambiguous
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- N/A
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Southern is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in Southern is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Southern is imprisonment as punishment.
This provision was used as a legal basis to arrest and prosecute Paul Kasonkomona who, in 2013, appeared on a television show arguing that the rights of sexual minorities should be recognized so that the HIV epidemic could be dealt with effectively. He was arrested by the authorities after his statement and was acquitted two years later.
Furthermore, in 2019, the Minister of Religious Affairs ordered the cancellation of a television program for allegedly "promoting homosexuality".
Right to change legal gender in Southern is ambiguous.
Gender-affirming care in Southern is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Southern is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Southern is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Southern is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Southern is ambiguous.
Same-sex adoption in Southern is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Southern is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Southern is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Southern is n/a.
Conversion therapy in Southern is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Southern is n/a.
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