LGBT Rights Sri Lanka: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- “I WANTED TO M SUICI FOR BEG GAY AND BEG DISCRIMATED AGAST”
- SRI LANKA: ENSURG EQUALY AND NON-DISCRIMATN FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUALS AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
- EXPLORE OUR FAVOURE 10 PLAC GAY SRI LANKA
“I WANTED TO M SUICI FOR BEG GAY AND BEG DISCRIMATED AGAST”
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Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)Censorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Public OpnAcrdg to recent survey data available, societal ristance to LGBTQ+ rights Sri Lanka is Lanka Surveys of Sri Lankans said LGBT persons face discrimatn by the police bee they are LGBT said LGBT persons face discrimatn fdg rental hog and/or school bee they are LGBT said LGBT persons face vlence and abe on social media bee they are LGBT of Sri Lankans said LGBT go agast their relign of Sri Lankans said would be shameful to have a LGBT child of Sri Lankans said rentg their hoe to a LGBT person would be a problem of Sri Lankans would support legislatn to ensure the rights of LGBT people of Sri Lankans say they personally know someone who is transgenr know someone who is lbian or gayHistoryHomosexual activy Sri Lanka?
Current statSce Jan 1, 1885Illegal (imprisonment as punishment) Homosexualy is crimalized Sri Lanka unr Sectn 365 of the 1883 Penal Co hered om Brish lonial le.
The Sri Lankan ernment received seven specific remendatns, which clud the crimalisatn of homosexualy – which is currently punished by a maximum of 10 years jail. However, spe the new promis, LGBTQ cizens will still ntue to face many obstacl as Health Mister Rajha Senaratne said that the ernment was still “agast homosexualy. The most famo of the discrimatory laws is the now dormant (and varly reported as crimalised) Sectn 365 that crimaliz homosexual sex, but other laws agast genr impersonatn and pimpg n also be nsired to discrimate agast LGBT people.
SRI LANKA: ENSURG EQUALY AND NON-DISCRIMATN FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUALS AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
Both the nservative ernment of Srisena and the socialist ernment of Rajapaska have stated that discrimatn agast sexual mori is unnstutnal and that Sectn 365 nnot be legally applied to nsensual homosexual sex, but ntradictn to this the socialist llatn refed to allow the nservative ernment’s attempted letn of Sectn 365 om legal texts. A number of non-ernmental anisatns, lawmakers and relig anisatns have e out favour of sexual mori, and openly homosexual gay and transgenr lawmakers n be found the parliament and the ernment. Sri Lankan societi generally tak a mostly unobtsive and tradnalist view of homosexualy and certa tradns exist for the promotn of transgenrs (albe third genr appears to have ped the island spe havg roots historilly wh Sri Lankan culture) and nsequently the laws have mostly been applied loosely (if ever) and discrimatn by police (and the like) is often associated wh rptn and/or attus towards sexual promiscuy which are applied to heterosexuals as well.
6% (753, 973) of the adults aged 18-years and olr livg Colombo, Matara, Nuwara Eliya and Kandy 2017 are eher lbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgenr.
EXPLORE OUR FAVOURE 10 PLAC GAY SRI LANKA
Acrdg to a study nducted by the EQUAL GROUND wh rpons om 470 dividuals who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual and transgenr, the majory of the LGBT persons face stigma and discrimatn ernment servic cludg tn and healthre.
The tweet has opened up a much-need nversatn on sexual orientatn, genr inty and exprsn (SOGIE) Sri Lanka, particularly regardg the Government’s obligatn to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people are not discrimated agast law or practice. 3 In the untry guidance se LH and IP (gay men: risk) Sri Lanka CG [2015] UKUT 00073 (IAC), promulgated on 18 Febary 2015 (heard on 6–8 Augt 2014) the Upper Tribunal found that, although all LGBTI persons form a PSG, wh regard specifilly to those who are a civil partnership or married, that they ‘…do not nsir that dividuals whose civil partner stat or stat as married homosexuals is not reflected their legal stat their untry of orig form a separate particular social group’ (para 25). Official figur on the prosecutns of gay men and those the LGBTI muny generally Sri Lanka have not been specifilly reported on sce 2018, but has been claimed that between October 2019 and October 2020 6 gay men were prosecuted (see Implementatn and enforcement of the law).