- 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
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Ash Shamaliyah is illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).
However, Sudan still punishes homosexual sex between men with 5 years imprisonment for the first offence, 7 years for the second, and life imprisonment for the third. For homosexual sex between women, the punishment is a maximum of 1 year imprisonment.
Same-sex marriage in Ash Shamaliyah is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Ash Shamaliyah is state-enforced.
Additionally, the 1899 Sudanese Penal Code criminalised “any male person who dresses or is attired in the fashion of a woman in a public place”, effectively criminalising the gender expression of cross dressing men and transgender women.
Right to change legal gender in Ash Shamaliyah is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Ash Shamaliyah is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Ash Shamaliyah is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Ash Shamaliyah is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Ash Shamaliyah is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Ash Shamaliyah is unknown.
Intersex infant surgery in Ash Shamaliyah is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Ash Shamaliyah is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Ash Shamaliyah is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Ash Shamaliyah is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Ash Shamaliyah is n/a.