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