- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- Unknown
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- 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
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Central African Republic is legal.
However, the penal code does criminalize “public expression of love" between people of the same sex, yet does not do the same for sex between people of the opposite sex.
The punishment is six months to two years in prison or a fine of between 150,000 and 600,000 CFA francs ($300 and $1,200). When one of the participants is a child, the adult may be sentenced to two to five years' imprisonment or a fine of 100,000 to 800,000 CFA francs ($200 and $1,600).
Censorship of LGBT issues in Central African Republic is unknown.
Right to change legal gender in Central African Republic is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Central African Republic is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Central African Republic is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Central African Republic is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Central African Republic is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Central African Republic is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Central African Republic is unknown.
Intersex infant surgery in Central African Republic is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Central African Republic is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Central African Republic is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Central African Republic is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Central African Republic is unknown.
LGBT Rights by Prefecture
View the LGBT laws in each individual prefecture of Central African Republic.
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