- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Tongatapu is male illegal, female legal.
Same-sex marriage in Tongatapu is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Tongatapu is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Tongatapu is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Tongatapu is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Tongatapu is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Tongatapu is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Tongatapu is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Tongatapu is ambiguous.
Same-sex adoption in Tongatapu is illegal.
In 2013, the Supreme Court refused to grant custody of a child to a gay man. The Supreme Court stated that because Tonga’s criminal law still prohibits carnal knowledge between consenting adults of the same sex, “[n]o court would entrust a very young child into the care of person whose lifestyle carries with it a very real risk of prosecution.”
Intersex infant surgery in Tongatapu is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Tongatapu is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Tongatapu is legal.
Conversion therapy in Tongatapu is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Tongatapu is equal.