- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in South Africa is legal.
Same-sex marriage in South Africa is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in South Africa is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in South Africa is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in South Africa is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in South Africa is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in South Africa is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in South Africa is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in South Africa is not banned.
Serving openly in military in South Africa is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in South Africa is legal.
Conversion therapy in South Africa is not banned.
Equal age of consent in South Africa is equal.
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of South Africa.