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    Homosexuality
    ✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
    Gay Marriage
    ✖ Banned
    Censorship
    ✖ State-enforced
    Changing Gender
    ✖ Illegal
    Gender-Affirming Care
    Unknown
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    ✖ Not legally recognized
    Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Employment Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Housing Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Adoption
    ✖ Illegal
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    Unknown
    Military
    ✖ Illegal
    Donating Blood
    ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    N/A
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History

Homosexual activity in L'Oriental

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Homosexual activity in L'Oriental is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).

Current status
Since Nov 26, 1962
Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
Article 489 of the Penal Code punishes same sex behaviour by imprisonment of between 6 months and 3 years, and a fine of 200 to 1000 dirhams.
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2009030…//www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf
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Until Jan 1, 1956
Ambiguous
Homosexuality was ambiguous in Morocco before 1956
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Same-sex marriage in L'Oriental

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Same-sex marriage in L'Oriental is banned.

Current status
Banned
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Censorship of LGBT Issues in L'Oriental

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Censorship of LGBT Issues in L'Oriental is state-enforced.

Current status
Since 2005
State-enforced
Morocco has several censorship measures in place including LGBT media censorship. Article 3 of the Decree Regulating the Right of Association prohibits associations from engaging in activities that, inter alia, “breach the laws or public morals” or “offend Islam”.
Further amendments were made by Decree No. 2?04?969 (2005), which include prohibitive provisions, such as capacities at start-up.
LGBT organisations are refused to register by the authorities.
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Right to change legal gender in L'Oriental

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Right to change legal gender in L'Oriental is illegal.

Current status
Illegal
There is no legal framework to change one's gender marker.
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Gender-Affirming Care in L'Oriental

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Gender-Affirming Care in L'Oriental is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in L'Oriental

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in L'Oriental is not legally recognized.

Current status
Not legally recognized
Non-binary identities are not recognized.
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LGBT discrimination in L'Oriental

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LGBT discrimination in L'Oriental is no protections.

Current status
No protections
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Jan 1, 2010–Aug 5, 2018
No protections
Morocco just launched a gay magazine in 2010. The first gay Moroccan came out.
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LGBT employment discrimination in L'Oriental

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LGBT employment discrimination in L'Oriental is no protections.

Current status
No protections
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LGBT housing discrimination in L'Oriental

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LGBT housing discrimination in L'Oriental is no protections.

Current status
No protections
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Same-sex adoption in L'Oriental

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Same-sex adoption in L'Oriental is illegal.

Current status
Illegal
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Intersex infant surgery in L'Oriental

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Intersex infant surgery in L'Oriental is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Serving openly in military in L'Oriental

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Serving openly in military in L'Oriental is illegal.

Current status
Illegal
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Blood donations by MSMs in L'Oriental

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Blood donations by MSMs in L'Oriental is banned (indefinite deferral).

Current status
Banned (indefinite deferral)
Due to homosexuality being illegal.
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Conversion therapy in L'Oriental

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Conversion therapy in L'Oriental is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
Conversion therapy is not banned.
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Equal age of consent in L'Oriental

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Equal age of consent in L'Oriental is n/a.

Current status
N/A
Homosexuality is illegal.
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