- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Research in attittudes towards LGBTQ+ issues in Lesotho have identified a strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting underlying homophobic sentiments.
History
Homosexual activity in Lesotho is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Lesotho is unrecognized.
Since Oct 4, 1966
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Lesotho is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Lesotho is legal, but requires surgery.
According to amendment of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs must amend the national register to provide for persons who have undergone “sex change operations” to change their “sex” identity marker on legal and identifying documents.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Lesotho is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in Lesotho is no protections.
Since Mar 9, 2012
LGBT housing discrimination in Lesotho is ambiguous.
Since Mar 9, 2012
Same-sex adoption in Lesotho is illegal.
Since Oct 4, 1966
Serving openly in military in Lesotho is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Lesotho is legal.
Conversion therapy in Lesotho is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Lesotho is equal.
Since Jan 1, 2012
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