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| Region | Papua New Guinea |
| Issue | Bathroom access |
| Status | Partially restricted |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In Papua New Guinea, there is no explict restrictions but also no protections for trans people acess to the bathroom that in practice transgender individuals face severe de facto restrictions enforced through proxy mechanisms such as criminal code punishes male same-sex relations by up to 14 years’ imprisonment. Crucially, the report notes that this law is routinely weaponized 'as a pretext by officials to harass or extort money from' transgender individuals. In the context of public bathroom acess, this means that a transgender person’s mere presence in a gender-segregated facility like a public bathroom can be treated by law enforcement as a pretext for criminal suspicion. |
| Sources | https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/papua-new-guinea |
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| Status | Partially restricted |
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| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In Papua New Guinea, there is no explict restrictions but also no protections for trans people acess to the bathroom that in practice transgender individuals face severe de facto restrictions enforced through proxy mechanisms such as criminal code punishes male same-sex relations by up to 14 years’ imprisonment. Crucially, the report notes that this law is routinely weaponized 'as a pretext by officials to harass or extort money from' transgender individuals. In the context of public bathroom acess, this means that a transgender person’s mere presence in a gender-segregated facility like a public bathroom can be treated by law enforcement as a pretext for criminal suspicion. |
| Sources | https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/papua-new-guinea |