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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in Norte is unrecognized.
Current status
Since Apr 23, 1993
Unrecognized
The civil code defines marriage as a union of people with opposite sex
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Norte is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Guinea-Bissau, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Norte is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
There is no procedure in place to allow legal gender recognition for official documents.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Norte is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
There is no legal recognition.
LGBT discrimination in Norte is no protections.
Current status
No protections
No protections. But 90 percent of people living here said that homosexuality is not an issue.
LGBT employment discrimination in Norte is no protections.
Current status
No protections
LGBT housing discrimination in Norte is no protections.
Current status
No protections
No protections from discrimination.
Same-sex adoption in Norte is single only.
Current status
Single only
according from a French website. no restrictions known. Missing laws for same sex couples.
Serving openly in military in Norte is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Current status
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
Not a single African country including this one allows trans military service
Conversion therapy in Norte is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
According to the ILGA World, there's no ban on conversion therapy in Guinea-Bissau.
Equal age of consent in Norte is equal.
Current status
Equal
Equalised age of consent at 16.