- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Foreign same-sex marriages recognized only
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Varies by Region
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Surveys in Peru have revealed a prevalence of resistance towards LGBTQ+ rights.
History
Same-sex marriage in Peru is foreign same-sex marriages recognized only.
Since Oct 31, 2006
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Peru is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Peru is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Since Oct 16, 2016
In July 2020, the Third Transitory Constitutional Court of the Superior Court of Lima ordered in its Judgment No. 12 (2020) that the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC) must develop a procedure to rectify the name, sex and image components of the ID documents of trans and intersex persons, through an administrative procedure without pathologising requirements. However, RENIEC appealed this judgment and the final resolution is still pending.
In 2021, five years after it was originally submitted, the Parliamentary Commission for Women and Family of the Peruvian Congress provided its opinion on the Gender Identity Bill (Bill No. 790-2016) (2016). As of January 2023, the bill is still pending.
Moroever, in September of 2021, local media reported that for the first time in Peruvian history, a civil court ruled in favour of a trans woman who requested to change her name and sex on her DNI without undergoing gender affirmation surgery. (ILGA)
Until Oct 15, 2016
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Peru is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Peru is illegal.
Since May 2017
LGBT employment discrimination in Peru is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Feb 1, 2016
LGBT housing discrimination in Peru is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Feb 1, 2016
Same-sex adoption in Peru is single only.
Serving openly in military in Peru is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Since Dec 10, 2009
Blood donations by MSMs in Peru is legal.
Equal age of consent in Peru is equal.
Since Jan 1, 1836
LGBT Rights by department
View the LGBT laws in each individual department of Peru.
- Piura
- Puno
- San Martín
- Tacna
- Tumbes
- Ucayali
- El Callao (constitutional province)
- Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima (municipality)