- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
Public Opinion
Research in attittudes towards LGBTQ+ issues in Guatemala have identified a strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting underlying homophobic sentiments.
Have you lived in or visited Guatemala?
Share your experience of being LGBTQ+ in Guatemala.
Take SurveyHistory
Censorship of LGBT issues in Guatemala is no censorship.
An attempt to ban education about trans people in school and promote further stigma was passed in 2022 but was vetoed by the President. However, there were accusations that the veto only occurred to distract the Guatemalan public from corruption cases.
Right to change legal gender in Guatemala is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Guatemala is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Guatemala is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Guatemala is illegal in some contexts.
The Code of Ethics and Integrity of the National Registry of Persons (2021) prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.
LGBT employment discrimination in Guatemala is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Guatemala is no protections.
Intersex infant surgery in Guatemala is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Guatemala is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Guatemala is legal.
Conversion therapy in Guatemala is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Guatemala is unknown.
LGBT Rights by Department
View the LGBT laws in each individual department of Guatemala.
Equality Rank
Top Contributors
- DaisyGeekyTrans 7 contributions
- Nathan 7 contributions
- Unknownmiles 4 contributions
- vviet93 3 contributions
- NadaCAT 1 contribution
- Buzdolabimotoru 1 contribution
- Notdog1996 1 contribution
- qcksws 1 contribution
- danlev 1 contribution
Share Region
