- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- 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
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Same-sex marriage in Thimphu is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Thimphu is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Thimphu is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-affirming care in Thimphu is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Thimphu is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Thimphu is illegal in some contexts.
Section 8.2(i) of the Bhutan Filming Regulation 2025, reads: "The tone and content of programming shall not in any way incite discrimination, hatred or violence against any individual or identifiable group based on race, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital or family status, or political affiliation."
LGBT employment discrimination in Thimphu is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Thimphu is no protections.
Intersex infant surgery in Thimphu is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Thimphu is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Thimphu is legal.