LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands
| LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands | |
|---|---|
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| Same-sex sexual activity legal? | Legal since 2000 |
| Gender identity/expression | – |
| Military service | UK responsible for defence |
| Discrimination protections | No |
| Family rights | |
| Recognition of relationships |
No |
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Restrictions:
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Constitutional ban |
| Adoption | No |
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the Cayman Islands may still face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity is legal in the Cayman Islands, but same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex married couples. The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory. Although the local Legislature and courts are independent from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Her Majesty's Government deals with all international relations on behalf of the Territory. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office oversees the governance of the Cayman Islands.
Same-sex sexual acts were expressly decriminalised under Britain's Caribbean Territories (Criminal Law) Order, 2000.
Britain’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights report on its Overseas Territories on Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, the Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, and the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1999 stated that “The United Kingdom Government is concerned that all Overseas Territories should adopt – as most of them, indeed, already do – substantially the same position as obtains in the United Kingdom itself in respect of capital punishment, judicial corporal punishment and the treatment as criminal offences of homosexual acts between consenting adults in private”.
The age of consent is higher for homosexuals than it is for heterosexuals.
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