- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (death penalty as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭Unknown
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- Unknown
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Ambiguous
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Bay is illegal (death penalty as punishment).
Current status
Since Jun 12, 2012
Illegal (death penalty as punishment) under federal Somalia law
The Provisional Constitution of Somalia (2012) upheld the preeminence of Sharia law. As such, the possibility of Sharia courts imposing the death penalty for individuals convicted of engaging in homosexual sex is possible.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Bay is imprisonment as punishment.
Current status
Since Apr 3, 1964
Imprisonment as punishment under federal Somalia law
Article 402 of the Penal Code (1964) of Somalia prohibits the commission of any “obscene act” while Article 403 prohibits the sale, distribution, and exhibition of any “obscene object”. Article 404 deems acts and objectives as “obscene” where they, in the general opinion, are “offensive to modesty”. Article 409, which criminalises same-sex intimacy, is part of the same chapter on “offences against modesty” in the legislation.
Right to change legal gender in Bay is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Bay is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized under federal Somalia law
There is no legal gender recognition provided to intersex or nonbinary people in Somalia.
LGBT employment discrimination in Bay is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in Bay is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Same-sex adoption in Bay is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous under federal Somalia law
Somali law states that the adoption procedure requires that the adopter proves to the district court of the
adoptee's domicile that they have the irrevocable intention to make an adoption and that they possess
the necessary means to carry out their obligations. It is unclear if the adopter must necessarily be heterosexual.
adoptee's domicile that they have the irrevocable intention to make an adoption and that they possess
the necessary means to carry out their obligations. It is unclear if the adopter must necessarily be heterosexual.
Serving openly in military in Bay is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Conversion therapy in Bay is not banned.
Current status
Not banned under federal Somalia law
Conversion therapy is legal and widespread in Somalia
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