- 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 Salah ad Din is ambiguous.
Since Jul 19, 1969
Since 1969
Same-sex marriage in Salah ad Din is unrecognized.
Since Jan 1, 2003
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Salah ad Din 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 Salah ad Din is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Since Oct 29, 2018
Until Oct 29, 2018
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Salah ad Din is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Salah ad Din is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Salah ad Din 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 Salah ad Din 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 Salah ad Din is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Salah ad Din is banned (1-year deferral).
Conversion therapy in Salah ad Din is not banned.