"The [Houthis] are ramping up their abuses at home while the world is busy watching their attacks in the Red Sea," said Niku Jafarnia, a Yemen researcher for Human Rights Watch.
Blessings were allowed last month in a document called Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust), which has caused widespread debate in the Catholic Church.
Israel's conservative stance on sexuality is reflected in its lower ranking on the Global Permissiveness Index.
The law also bans post-surgery transgender people from adopting children and annuls the marriages of post-surgery transgender people.
The suspect threatened to carry out a ramming attack against gay men and used derogatory terms to refer to transgender people.