- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (death penalty as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✖ Other punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Non-binary gender recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✖ Unequal
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History
Homosexual activity in Kandahār is illegal (death penalty as punishment).
Current status
Illegal (death penalty as punishment)
Under the Taliban Rule.
Same-sex marriage in Kandahār is not legal.
Current status
Not legal
Under Shariah Laws of the Taliban.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Kandahār is other punishment.
Current status
Other punishment
Censorship is enforced under the Taliban.
Right to change legal gender in Kandahār is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
The Punishment for crossdressing is Death by shooting under the Taliban. Extrajudicial killings also occurs.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kandahār is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT discrimination in Kandahār is no protections.
Current status
No protections
Homosexuality is illegal in Kandahar, so no protections exist if you are an LGBT person.
LGBT employment discrimination in Kandahār is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous
under international law.
LGBT housing discrimination in Kandahār is no protections.
Current status
No protections
None exist.
Same-sex adoption in Kandahār is single only.
Current status
Single only
no laws in place for same sex couples.
Serving openly in military in Kandahār is legal.
Current status
Legal
Under international law.
Blood donations by MSMs in Kandahār is legal.
Current status
Legal
Under international law.
Conversion therapy in Kandahār is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Not criminalized.
Equal age of consent in Kandahār is unequal.
Current status
Unequal
As homosexuality is punishable By death in Kandahar , So the age of consent is unequal.
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