- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- Ambiguous
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Same-sex marriage in Suriname is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Suriname is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Suriname is ambiguous.
In January 2017, the Eerste Kantongerecht (one of 3 Courts of First Instance in Suriname) granted a transgender woman the right to have her gender formally changed with the Central Bureau of Civil Affairs and ordered the registry to officially change her registration to reflect her amended status. The Association of Pentecostal Churches in Suriname (VVPES) and the Suriname Islamic Association (SIV), which had protested against and opposed the right to recognize a gender change, indicated they would "accept the verdict". In February 2017, the Central Bureau of Civil Affairs formally appealed the court ruling. In January 2022, the Suriname Court of Appeal ruled in favor and ordered the gender change on the birth certificate of the transgender woman who had undergone sex reassignment surgery in 2009.
Gender-affirming care in Suriname is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Suriname is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Suriname is illegal in some contexts.
The protections (only for sexual orientation) are: Education/Housing/Goods and services/Health/Employiment/Prohibition of Incitement
LGBT employment discrimination in Suriname is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Articles 176b, 176c and 500a of the Criminal Code bans discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment.
LGBT housing discrimination in Suriname is sexual orientation only.
Same-sex adoption in Suriname is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Suriname is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Suriname is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Suriname is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Suriname is not banned.
LGBT Rights by District
View the LGBT laws in each individual district of Suriname.