- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in Ocotepeque is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Ocotepeque is no censorship.
However, trans people face a risk of arrest under vaguely worded sections of the Law on Police and Social Affairs of 2001, enforcing police to "prevent and eliminate disturbances to tranquility, public morality, and proper conduct". Police crackdowns against "vagabonds", which are very vaguely defined, also target trans people at a disproportionate rate.
Right to change legal gender in Ocotepeque is illegal.
The appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court of Justice in November 2022, although the State of Honduras is required to create a procedure for legal recognition of gender identity under a 2020 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
Gender-affirming care in Ocotepeque is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Ocotepeque is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Ocotepeque is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Ocotepeque is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Ocotepeque is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Ocotepeque is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Ocotepeque is legal.
Conversion therapy in Ocotepeque is not banned.