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| Region | Sri Lanka |
| Issue | Bathroom access |
| Status | Partially restricted |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In Sri Lanka, although there no specific statutory laws, "bathroom bills," or explicit bans regulating public restroom use based on birth sex or gender identity, but there no protection for trans people as authorities and security personnel have historically used Section 399 of the Sri Lankan Penal Code (which criminalizes "cheating by personation") to target transgender individuals for their gender expression. This creates legal vulnerability in sex-segregated spaces to the point that law enforcement in Sri Lanka frequently treats transgender people to the extreme with arbitrary arrests, primarily leveraging vague, colonial-era laws such as the archaic Vagrants Ordinance of 1841 to arbitrarily detain trans individuals under subjective charges like "loitering," "idling," or "gross indecency". |
| Sources | https://www.ibanet.org/sri-lanka-proposed-decriminalisation-lgbtqi-rights |
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deleted by danlev. Source does not mention anything about bathrooms or facilities and does not back up the "frequently"
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| Status | Partially restricted |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In Sri Lanka, although there no specific statutory laws, "bathroom bills," or explicit bans regulating public restroom use based on birth sex or gender identity, but there no protection for trans people as authorities and security personnel have historically used Section 399 of the Sri Lankan Penal Code (which criminalizes "cheating by personation") to target transgender individuals for their gender expression. This creates legal vulnerability in sex-segregated spaces to the point that law enforcement in Sri Lanka frequently treats transgender people to the extreme with arbitrary arrests, primarily leveraging vague, colonial-era laws such as the archaic Vagrants Ordinance of 1841 to arbitrarily detain trans individuals under subjective charges like "loitering," "idling," or "gross indecency". |
| Sources | https://www.ibanet.org/sri-lanka-proposed-decriminalisation-lgbtqi-rights |