Report: At the bottom for LGBT rights -- American Samoa & CNMI
Washington, D.C. — Lambda Legal and the Movement Advancement Project on Tuesday released a new report that documents the status of LGBT rights in five U.S. territories.
The report ranks Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands on a variety of issues that include relationship recognition, nondiscrimination laws and whether transgender people can change the gender on their identity documents. The report also ranks the territories on health care and criminal justice policies.
Same-sex couples can legally marry in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Puerto Rico has the highest ranking of the five territories with a 21.75 out of a possible 40.5 points.
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