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    Homosexuality
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ✖ Unrecognized
    Censorship
    ✔ No censorship
    Changing Gender
    ✖ Illegal
    Gender-Affirming Care
    ✔ Legal
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    ✖ Not legally recognized
    Discrimination
    ✖ Illegal in some contexts
    Employment Discrimination
    ✖ Sexual orientation only
    Housing Discrimination
    ✖ No protections
    Adoption
    ✖ Single only
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    Unknown
    Military
    ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
    Donating Blood
    ✔ Legal
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
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History

Homosexual activity in Roche Caiman

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Homosexual activity in Roche Caiman is legal.

Current status
Since May 18, 2016
Legal
The parliament was expected to consider the measure within few months. The Attorney General Ronny Govinden ruled out a referendum on the issue. The bill was approved on 18 May 2016.
Sources:
Wikepidia
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Same-sex marriage in Roche Caiman

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Same-sex marriage in Roche Caiman is unrecognized.

Current status
Unrecognized
Gay marriage pending.
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Censorship of LGBT Issues in Roche Caiman

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Censorship of LGBT Issues in Roche Caiman is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Seychelles, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Roche Caiman

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Right to change legal gender in Roche Caiman is illegal.

Current status
Illegal
The law and practices do not allow for persons to change their gender identity marker on legal and identifying documents to bring them into alignment with their gender identity. The option to identify as nonbinary, intersex, or gender-nonconforming was not available.
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Gender-Affirming Care in Roche Caiman

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Gender-Affirming Care in Roche Caiman is legal.

Current status
Since 2001
Legal
In 2001, Seychelles adopted the ICD-10 classification, which contains codes for diagnosing transsexualism in adulthood and childhood, which authorize the initiation of medical transition.
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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Roche Caiman

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Roche Caiman is not legally recognized.

Current status
Not legally recognized
The option to identify as nonbinary, intersex, or gender-nonconforming is not available.
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LGBT discrimination in Roche Caiman

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LGBT discrimination in Roche Caiman is illegal in some contexts.

Current status
Illegal in some contexts
Sexual Orientation in employment.

The National Anti-Bullying Policy and Strategy for Primary, Secondary Schools and Professional Centres (2018) includes specific sections referred to homophobic bullying (Section 2.1.2(iii), Section 2.2, paragraph 4, and Section 4.3).
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2021051…//www.education.gov.sc/Downloads/Policies%20and%20Strategic%20Plans/Anti%20Bullying%20Policy%20and%20Strategy%2013-3-18.pdf
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LGBT employment discrimination in Roche Caiman

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LGBT employment discrimination in Roche Caiman is sexual orientation only.

Current status
Since 2006
Sexual orientation only
See articles 2, 46A (1) and 46B of the Employment Act 1995, amended by Act 4 of 2006
Sources:
old.ilga.org/Statehomophobi…
staging.ilo.
org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/40108/90799/F1128259675/SYC40108.pdf
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LGBT housing discrimination in Roche Caiman

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LGBT housing discrimination in Roche Caiman is no protections.

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2006
No protections
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Same-sex adoption in Roche Caiman

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Same-sex adoption in Roche Caiman is single only.

Current status
Single only
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Intersex infant surgery in Roche Caiman

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Intersex infant surgery in Roche Caiman is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Serving openly in military in Roche Caiman

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Serving openly in military in Roche Caiman is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.

Current status
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned

Trans people cannot serve in this country as of 2023 which is the unfortunate consensus on the African continent
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Blood donations by MSMs in Roche Caiman

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Blood donations by MSMs in Roche Caiman is legal.

Current status
Legal
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Conversion therapy in Roche Caiman

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Conversion therapy in Roche Caiman is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
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Equal age of consent in Roche Caiman

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Equal age of consent in Roche Caiman is equal.

Current status
Equal
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