- Homosexuality
- ⚢Ambiguous
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- 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 (1-year deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✖ Unequal
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Homosexual activity in Maysan is ambiguous.
Since Jul 19, 1969
Since 1969
Same-sex marriage in Maysan is unrecognized.
Since Jan 1, 2003
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Maysan is imprisonment as punishment.
In August 2023, Iraq banned all media from using term "homosexuality", saying they must use "sexual deviance." The term "gender" was also banned.
Right to change legal gender in Maysan is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Since Oct 29, 2018
Until Oct 29, 2018
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Maysan is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Maysan is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Maysan is no protections.
According to the United States' Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012, "[Iraq] law prohibits discrimination based on race, disability, or social status, but it does not address the problem of sexual orientation or gender identity. Societal discrimination in employment, occupation, and housing based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and unconventional appearance was common."
LGBT housing discrimination in Maysan is no protections.
According to the United States' Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012, "[Iraq] law prohibits discrimination based on race, disability, or social status, but it does not address the problem of sexual orientation or gender identity. Societal discrimination in employment, occupation, and housing based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and unconventional appearance was common."
Same-sex adoption in Maysan is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Maysan is banned (1-year deferral).
Conversion therapy in Maysan is not banned.