- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent studies in Bhutan have revealed a prevalence of resistance towards LGBTQ+ rights, based on the limited information available in Bhutan.
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Same-sex marriage in Bhutan is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Bhutan is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Bhutan is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-affirming care in Bhutan is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Bhutan is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Bhutan is illegal in some contexts.
Section 8.2(i) of the Bhutan Filming Regulation 2025, reads: "The tone and content of programming shall not in any way incite discrimination, hatred or violence against any individual or identifiable group based on race, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital or family status, or political affiliation."
LGBT employment discrimination in Bhutan is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Bhutan is no protections.
Intersex infant surgery in Bhutan is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Bhutan is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Bhutan is legal.
LGBT Rights by District
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