- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Al Batinah is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Article 223, "Homosexual and Lesbian Intercourses" states: "Any one who commits erotic acts with a person of the same sex shall be sentenced to imprisonment from six months to three years. The suspects of homosexual or lesbian intercourse shall be prosecuted without a prior complaint, if the act results in a public scandal. The suspects of lesbian intercourse among ascendants, descendants or sisters shall only be prosecuted upon a complaint from a relative or a relative by marriage forth-degree removed."
Same-sex marriage in Al Batinah is banned.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Al Batinah is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Al Batinah is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Al Batinah is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Al Batinah is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Al Batinah is no protections.
Serving openly in military in Al Batinah is ambiguous.
Blood donations by MSMs in Al Batinah is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Al Batinah is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Al Batinah is n/a.