- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ No protections
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Tonga is male illegal, female legal.
Same-sex marriage in Tonga is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Tonga is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Tonga is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Tonga is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Tonga is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Tonga is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Tonga is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Tonga is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Tonga is illegal.
In 2013, the Supreme Court refused to grant custody of a child to a gay man. The Supreme Court stated that because Tonga’s criminal law still prohibits carnal knowledge between consenting adults of the same sex, “[n]o court would entrust a very young child into the care of person whose lifestyle carries with it a very real risk of prosecution.”
Intersex infant surgery in Tonga is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Tonga is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Tonga is not banned.
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