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| Region | Burkina Faso |
| Issue | Serving openly in military |
| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | Sep 25, 2025 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | Since Burkina Faso’s 2025 Code of Persons and Family criminalizes “homosexual acts or similar practices” with 2–5 years’ imprisonment, open LGB military service is best classified as de facto barred or legally unsafe, even without a separate military-specific LGB ban. Transgender people are also best classified as de facto barred from open service, because Burkina Faso has no clear legal gender-recognition or gender-marker change procedure and no confirmed policy allowing service in an affirmed gender. |
| Sources | https://www.fonction-publique.gov.bf/fileadmin/user_upload/storage/23_juillet_2021-03-loi_104_portant_statut_personnel_paramilitaire_DOUANE.pdf https://www.defense.gov.bf/fileadmin/user_upload/stockage/images/documents/Arrete_portant_modalites_de_recrutement_exceptionnel_de_1000_militaires_de_rang_dans_les_FAN.pdf https://www.humandignitytrust.org/country-profile/burkina-faso/ https://lawsandpolicies.unaids.org/jointanalysis?a=BFA&id=transgenders&lan=en |
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| Old Value | New Value (Current) | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | (REMOVED) | Illegal |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | Illegal |
| Start Date | (unknown) | Sep 25, 2025 |
| Description | Legal provisions relating to military recruitment do not exclude LGBT people from serving. Nevertheless, there are no inclusion measures for LGBT people. | Since Burkina Faso’s 2025 Code of Persons and Family criminalizes “homosexual acts or similar practices” with 2–5 years’ imprisonment, open LGB military service is best classified as de facto barred or legally unsafe, even without a separate military-specific LGB ban. Transgender people are also best classified as de facto barred from open service, because Burkina Faso has no clear legal gender-recognition or gender-marker change procedure and no confirmed policy allowing service in an affirmed gender. |
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| Sources | https://www.fonction-publique.gov.bf/fileadmin/user_upload/storage/23_juillet_2021-03-loi_104_portant_statut_personnel_paramilitaire_DOUANE.pdf https://www.defense.gov.bf/fileadmin/user_upload/stockage/images/documents/Arrete_portant_modalites_de_recrutement_exceptionnel_de_1000_militaires_de_rang_dans_les_FAN.pdf | https://www.fonction-publique.gov.bf/fileadmin/user_upload/storage/23_juillet_2021-03-loi_104_portant_statut_personnel_paramilitaire_DOUANE.pdf https://www.defense.gov.bf/fileadmin/user_upload/stockage/images/documents/Arrete_portant_modalites_de_recrutement_exceptionnel_de_1000_militaires_de_rang_dans_les_FAN.pdf https://www.humandignitytrust.org/country-profile/burkina-faso/ https://lawsandpolicies.unaids.org/jointanalysis?a=BFA&id=transgenders&lan=en |
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| Old Value | New Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned | Ambiguous |
| Description | No african country including this one allows trans service | Legal provisions relating to military recruitment do not exclude LGBT people from serving. Nevertheless, there are no inclusion measures for LGBT people. |
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| Sources | https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210629-countries-that-allow-transgender-people-easy-status-change | https://www.fonction-publique.gov.bf/fileadmin/user_upload/storage/23_juillet_2021-03-loi_104_portant_statut_personnel_paramilitaire_DOUANE.pdf https://www.defense.gov.bf/fileadmin/user_upload/stockage/images/documents/Arrete_portant_modalites_de_recrutement_exceptionnel_de_1000_militaires_de_rang_dans_les_FAN.pdf |
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edited by Canadianstudent03. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210629-countries-that-allow-transgender-people-easy-status-change
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0 | Old Value | New Value | |
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| Value | Legal | Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned |
| Description | No african country including this one allows trans service | |
| Sources | https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210629-countries-that-allow-transgender-people-easy-status-change |