- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- N/A
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Mayotte is legal.
Current status
Legal
Homosexuality was never criminalised in Mayotte. French laws are applied to Mayotte.
Same-sex marriage in Mayotte is legal.
Current status
Since May 18, 2013
Legal
France passed comprehensive same-sex marriage legislation in 2013; entitling gay and lesbian people to equal marriage rights in Metropolitan France and all its overseas departments. France was the ninth European country and the thirteenth country in the world to legalise gay marriage.
Civil unions (limited rights)
Under French law, both same sex and different sex couples can get a PACS, a civil union with limited rights. PACS are still available today. This did not take effect in Mayotte until 2006.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Mayotte is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Mayotte, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Mayotte is legal, no restrictions.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2017
Legal, no restrictions
Under French law, trans people can change their legal gender without surgery or medical diagnosis since 2017. This law also applies to Mayotte.
Legal, but requires surgery
In 1992, France began providing legal gender recognition provided that surgery be performed after two court cases. This also applied to Mayotte.
Gender-affirming care in Mayotte is legal.
Current status
Legal
Under French law, Mayotte allows gender transition care for adults and minors. Minors can access puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and in some cases, mastectomies but genital surgeries are reserved for adults.
LGBT discrimination in Mayotte is illegal.
Current status
Since Mar 27, 2014
Illegal
In 2014, all forms of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity became illegal in Mayotte when discrimination in housing on the basis of gender identity became prohibited.
Illegal in some contexts
In 2001, the first protections against discrimination were provided to LGBTIQ+ people in Mayotte when Law 1066 was passed prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in goods and services.
Since then, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation were criminalised in the below:
-Law 73: Housing (2002)
-Ordinance 44: Employment (2005)
-Law 496: All Other Areas (2008)
Gender identity would later be protected under Law 954 passed in 2012 in all areas except for housing.
Since then, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation were criminalised in the below:
-Law 73: Housing (2002)
-Ordinance 44: Employment (2005)
-Law 496: All Other Areas (2008)
Gender identity would later be protected under Law 954 passed in 2012 in all areas except for housing.
LGBT employment discrimination in Mayotte is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Aug 6, 2012
LGBT housing discrimination in Mayotte is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Mar 27, 2014
Sexual orientation and gender identity
In 2014, gender identity became a protected characteristic from discrimination in housing in Mayotte under federal French law when France's housing law was amended to prohibit discrimination against tenants on grounds established by Article 225.1 of the Penal Code which lists gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in Mayotte is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Surgery on intersex infants is legal in Mayotte.
Serving openly in military in Mayotte is n/a.
Current status
N/A
Mayotte's defense is under the jurisdiction of France.
Blood donations by MSMs in Mayotte is legal.
Current status
Since Mar 16, 2022
Legal
Since 2022, blood donations by men who have sex with men has been legal with no deferral period in Mayotte.
Banned (less than 6-month deferral)
In 2020, the deferral period for blood donations from MSMs was reduced to four months in Mayotte.
Banned (1-year deferral)
In 2016, the complete ban on blood donations from MSMs was replaced with a 1-year deferral period in Mayotte.
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