- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- 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
- N/A
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Chiriquí is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Chiriquí is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Chiriquí is legal, but requires surgery.
In 2016, a transgender woman was able, through court permission, to change her legal name according to her gender identity, without the need to undergo surgery.
They need to undergo a visual inspection of their genitals by a doctor to get the change granted, which can be difficult and humiliating.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Chiriquí is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Chiriquí is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Chiriquí is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Chiriquí is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Chiriquí is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Chiriquí is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Chiriquí is n/a.
Blood donations by MSMs in Chiriquí is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Chiriquí is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Chiriquí is equal.