- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ Protected in some contexts
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Paro is legal.
Article 214 stated that the offence of unnatural sex was a petty misdemeanor, which provided a maximum prison sentence of less than one year and a minimum term of one month.
Same-sex marriage in Paro is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Paro is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Paro is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-affirming care in Paro is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Paro is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Paro is protected in some contexts.
LGBT discrimination in Paro is illegal in some contexts.
Section 8.2(i) of the Bhutan Filming Regulation 2025, reads: "The tone and content of programming shall not in any way incite discrimination, hatred or violence against any individual or identifiable group based on race, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital or family status, or political affiliation."
LGBT employment discrimination in Paro is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Paro is no protections.
Serving openly in military in Paro is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Paro is legal.