- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
Public Opinion
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Suggest Public Opinion DataHistory
Homosexual activity in Vava'u is male illegal, female legal.
Same-sex marriage in Vava'u is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Vava'u is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Vava'u is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Vava'u is not legally recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Vava'u is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Vava'u is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Vava'u 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 Vava'u is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Vava'u is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Vava'u is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Vava'u is not banned.