- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Basnāhira paḷāta is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Human Rights Watch and Equal Ground have found evidence of these laws continuing to be enforced by police as of 2020.
Sri Lanka is an independent nation, as such, India's 2018 Supreme Court decision to decriminalize same-sex relationships and make a similar law unenforceable does not apply.
Same-sex marriage in Basnāhira paḷāta is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Basnāhira paḷāta is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Basnāhira paḷāta is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-affirming care in Basnāhira paḷāta is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Basnāhira paḷāta is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Basnāhira paḷāta is illegal in some contexts.
"'special categories of personal data' means, the personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation, personal data relating to offences, criminal proceedings and convictions, or personal data relating to a child."
LGBT employment discrimination in Basnāhira paḷāta is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Basnāhira paḷāta is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Basnāhira paḷāta is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Basnāhira paḷāta is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Basnāhira paḷāta is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Basnāhira paḷāta is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Basnāhira paḷāta is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Basnāhira paḷāta is n/a.
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