- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- 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 Olancho is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Olancho 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 Olancho 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 Olancho is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Olancho is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Olancho is sexual orientation and gender identity.
The same protection remains in effect under Article 31(8) of the new Penal Code (Legislative Decree 130-2017), in force since June 25, 2020.
LGBT discrimination in Olancho is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Olancho is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Olancho is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Olancho is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Olancho is legal.
Conversion therapy in Olancho is not banned.