- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (other penalty)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
Recent studies in Egypt indicate societal resistance to LGBTQ+ rights.
History
Homosexual activity in Egypt is illegal (other penalty).
Since 2000
Same-sex marriage in Egypt is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Egypt is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Egypt is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Egypt is not legally recognized.
Any gender beyond the binary cisgender model is officially treated as an illness.
LGBT discrimination in Egypt is no protections.
Since Sep 11, 1971
LGBT employment discrimination in Egypt is no protections.
Since Sep 11, 1971
LGBT housing discrimination in Egypt is no protections.
Since Sep 11, 1971
Same-sex adoption in Egypt is illegal.
Serving openly in military in Egypt is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Egypt is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Egypt is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Egypt is n/a.
LGBT Rights by Governorate
View the LGBT laws in each individual governorate of Egypt.
- Ad Daqahliyah
- Al Bahr al Ahmar
- Al Buhayrah
- Al Fayyum
- Al Gharbiyah
- Al Iskandariyah
- Al Ismā`īlīyah
- Al Jizah
- Al Minufiyah
- Al Minya
- Al Qahirah
- Al Qalyubiyah
- Al Wadi al Jadid
- al-Uqsur
- As Suways
- Ash Sharqiyah
- Aswan
- Asyut
- Bani Suwayf
- Būr Sa`īd
- Dumyat
- Janub Sina'
- Kafr ash Shaykh
- Matrūh
- Qina
- Shamal Sina'
- Suhaj
- As Sādis min Uktūbar (governorate)
- Ḩulwān (governorate)