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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Censorship of LGBT Issues in Santa Cruz is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Cape Verde, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Santa Cruz is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
Missing non binary options on documents.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Santa Cruz is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
only male or female
LGBT discrimination in Santa Cruz is illegal in some contexts.
Current status
Since Oct 16, 2007
Illegal in some contexts
Only banned in employment and housing
Same-sex adoption in Santa Cruz is single only.
Current status
Single only
No laws in place for same sex couples.
Intersex infant surgery in Santa Cruz is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Serving openly in military in Santa Cruz is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous
Not one of the countries that has bans on lgbt serving.
Blood donations by MSMs in Santa Cruz is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous
No
Conversion therapy in Santa Cruz is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Not criminalized.
Equal age of consent in Santa Cruz is equal.
Current status
Since Mar 1, 2004
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