- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (death penalty as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- Ambiguous
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Moroto is illegal (death penalty as punishment).
The definition of "aggravated homosexuality" includes three main categories.
1. Consensual sex between adults wherein the party is a second-time offender.
2. Rape, against an adult or a child.
3. Homosexual activities performed by those with HIV, or that involve a disabled or elderly person.
"Attempted homosexuality" is also punishable by law, meeting up to 10 years in prison, while "attempted aggravated homosexuality" can be met with up to 14 years.
Earlier referred to internationally as the "Kill the Gays" bill when first proposed on October 13, 2009, life imprisonment was substituted for the death penalty following international pressure.
Prior to this bill, homosexuality was illegal under Section 145 of the penal code, punishable by up to life imprisonment.
Same-sex marriage in Moroto is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Moroto is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Moroto is ambiguous.
However, in 2015, the Registration of the Persons Act was passed. Article 38 states that if an intersex child is registered as either male or female and then has an operation to change from "a female to a male or from a male to a female" then it is possible for the child's legal sex to be changed.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Moroto is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Moroto is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Moroto is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Moroto is no protections.
Since 2023, with the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, any landlord who rents to an LGBTQ individual and does not evict them will also face 20 years in prison if the individual they are renting to engages in or "encourages" homosexuality.
Same-sex adoption in Moroto is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Moroto is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Moroto is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Moroto is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Moroto is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Moroto is n/a.