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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Díli is legal.
Current status
Since 1975
Legal
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Díli is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In East Timor, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Díli is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
No right to change legal gender
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Díli is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
No legal recognition.
LGBT discrimination in Díli is illegal in some contexts.
Current status
Since Mar 18, 2009
Illegal in some contexts
Within the penal code, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (and discrimination in general) is treated as an aggravating circumstances.
LGBT employment discrimination in Díli is no protections.
Current status
No protections
Under hate crime law. as well as under employment discrimination law.
LGBT housing discrimination in Díli is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous
Under Hate crime law.
Same-sex adoption in Díli is single only.
Current status
Single only
It is legal to adopt. However no laws for same sex couples.
Serving openly in military in Díli is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous
No data
Blood donations by MSMs in Díli is banned (indefinite deferral).
Current status
Banned (indefinite deferral)
Illegal
Conversion therapy in Díli is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Unknown.
Equal age of consent in Díli is equal.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 1975
Equal
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