LGBT Rights in Tunisia

Homosexuality: ⚢
✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
Gay Marriage: ⚭
✖ Not legal
Censorship: ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
Changing Gender: ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
Non-binary gender recognition: Unknown
Discrimination: ✖ No protections
Employment Discrimination: ✖ No protections
Housing Discrimination: ✖ No protections
Adoption: ✖ Single only
Military: Ambiguous
Donating Blood: ✔ Legal
Conversion Therapy: ✖ Not banned
Age of Consent: N/A

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History

Homosexual activity in Tunisia

Homosexual activity in Tunisia is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).

Current status
Since 1913

Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)

Penal Code of 1913: Article 230: “The masculine homosexuality and feminine homosexuality that is not covered by any of the other previous articles, is punished with imprisonment for three years” (unofficial translation)

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Dec 22, 2015–Sep 6, 2018

Male illegal, female legal

Punishment of 2- 3 years in prison. not enforced. Decriminalization pending. Backed by Tunisian Prime Minister. Included in the Human peace accord. It is under the reform by the Tunisian Commission.

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1913–Jul 4, 2015

Male illegal, female uncertain

3 years imprisonment

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Same-sex marriage in Tunisia

Same-sex marriage in Tunisia is not legal.

Current status

Not legal

there's no specific law

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Censorship of LGBT Issues in Tunisia

Censorship of LGBT Issues in Tunisia is imprisonment as punishment.

Current status

Imprisonment as punishment

In Tunisia it is illegal to promote the topic of Homosexuality

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Right to change legal gender in Tunisia

Right to change legal gender in Tunisia is legal, but requires surgery.

Current status
Since Jul 9, 2018

Legal, but requires surgery

Tunisian court granted legal gender recognition to a transgender man who received gender-affirming care in Germany, overruling a lower court’s verdict.

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Jul 25, 1957–Jul 9, 2018

Illegal

Changing gender is illegal in Tunisia.

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Tunisia

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Tunisia is unknown.

Current status

Unknown