Where the app is offered, and why

T4TSpace is made by and for trans and non-binary people, and on this we are not neutral. A law that punishes people for being trans, or for who they love, is an unjust law. We will not help enforce it, not even by accident, by putting a dating app for trans people on phones that the police may search.

So on Google Play, we have set the T4TSpace Android app to be offered in 112 countries only. It is not offered in 64 countries, nor in a group of 49 countries and territories that Google Play only lets us choose all together. All of them are listed below, grouped by reason.

Why the app, and not the website

An installed app is easy to find. Its icon is on the home screen and its name is in the list of apps, for anyone who holds the phone. In a 2023 report on Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia, Human Rights Watch documented security forces forcing people to unlock their phones, then looking for photos, chats and same-sex dating apps, sometimes the mere presence of such an app, and using what they found against the people arrested. The same report documents fake profiles created by security forces on dating apps to entrap people.

Not offering the app in those countries means we are not the ones putting it on those phones. Taking an app off a store does not remove it from the phones that already have it, which is why this choice was made before the Android app's first public release.

Google Play goes by the country of your Google account, not by where you are. If your account belongs to a country where the app is offered and you travel to one of the countries below, the app stays on your phone. Think about uninstalling it before you leave: that does not delete your account.

The website stays open, and it is not risk-free

We have not blocked the website anywhere. Blocking it would also cut off what it offers people who may have nowhere else to find it: the glossary, the answers, the stories, and the knowledge that others like them exist. But reading this site is not invisible either, and we would rather say so plainly.

Your browser keeps a history of the pages you visit. Whoever runs the network you use (an internet provider, an employer, a school, whoever set up the Wi-Fi at home, and in some countries the state) can often see that you visited t4tspace.com, even when they cannot see which pages. A VPN hides that from the network, but in some countries using a VPN is itself restricted or illegal. You know your situation and your country's laws better than we do.

A few precautions

None of these makes you safe. They reduce what your phone or computer keeps, and what others can see.

Use a private window (called Incognito in some browsers). When you close it, the browser forgets the pages you opened and your sign-in. It does not hide your visit from the network.

If you did not use one, clear your history and the site data for t4tspace.com before anyone else uses or checks your device.

Do not let your browser save your password, and sign out when you are done: in the app, under Account and data, then Sign out.

If your phone might be looked at, do not add the site to your home screen: that puts an icon on it, just like an installed app.

In the app, a notification never contains a name, a photo or what someone wrote. It still shows up on a locked screen, so you can make every notification say only “New activity” (Account and data, then Discretion), or switch notifications off in the app, under Account and data, then Notifications, or in your phone's settings. More on discretion.

Keep me out of the grid (Quiet mode), also under Account and data, takes you out of the grid of people nearby. The people you have liked can still see you.

In several of these countries, police have used fake profiles to set up meetings. Every account here is checked by a person before it can see anyone, but that check cannot prove anyone's intentions. Take your time, and if you meet, meet in a public place and tell someone you trust where you are going.

What we cannot promise

Nothing on this page makes it safe to use T4TSpace in a country whose laws target you. We decide what we put on phones; we do not control networks, devices or laws. If the risk is too high for you right now, not using T4TSpace is a reasonable choice.

If you need to get to safety

Rainbow Railroad (rainbowrailroad.org) supports LGBTQI+ people who face violence or persecution because of who they are or who they love. It describes its help as emergency relocation, crisis response, cash assistance and other support, and requests go through a form on its website. The precautions above apply to that site too.

The list, and how it was made

This list was researched on 17 September 2026, from the Human Dignity Trust's country profiles, ILGA World's maps (June 2026), reports by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Outright International, and Google Play's list of countries. We review it as laws change: a country can leave the list, and another can join it. If you think a country is on it by mistake, or missing, write to hello@t4tspace.com.

Where the law punishes same-sex relations or trans people (52 countries)

Algeria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

No such law, but prosecution or police entrapment (2 countries)

Russia: the “LGBT movement” has been designated “extremist”, and people have been sent to prison under that label.

Jordan: security forces have used dating apps and social media to entrap LGBT people, according to Human Rights Watch.

High and rising risk (10 countries)

No law against same-sex relations, but in recent years at least one of these: a law against “LGBT propaganda” or against transition, police raids or arrests, phones searched, dating apps removed on government orders, or a bill to criminalise under way.

Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Türkiye.

Google Play's “Rest of the world” group (49 countries and territories)

Google Play does not let us choose these one by one: the group is either in or out as a whole. It includes 13 countries that punish same-sex relations or trans people: Afghanistan, Brunei, Burundi, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Guyana, Kiribati, Malawi, Mauritania, Palestinian territories, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Sudan and Tuvalu.

So we left the whole group out. That means the app is also not offered in the other 36, such as Andorra, Barbados, Montenegro or Kosovo, where we found no such reason. We would rather be too careful with them than put the app on phones in those 13.