- 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 Ngöbe-Buglé is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Ngöbe-Buglé is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Ngöbe-Buglé 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 Ngöbe-Buglé is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Ngöbe-Buglé is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Ngöbe-Buglé is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Ngöbe-Buglé is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Ngöbe-Buglé is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Ngöbe-Buglé is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Ngöbe-Buglé is n/a.
Blood donations by MSMs in Ngöbe-Buglé is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Ngöbe-Buglé is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Ngöbe-Buglé is equal.