- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (death penalty as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- Ambiguous
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but banned for minors
- 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 Northern 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 Northern is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Northern is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Northern is ambiguous.
Gender-affirming care in Northern is legal, but banned for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Northern is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Northern is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Northern is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Northern is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Northern is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Northern is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Northern is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Northern is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Northern is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Northern is n/a.