- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unregistered cohabitation
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Gender identity only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Gender identity only
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- Varies by Region
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Tamil Nadu is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Tamil Nadu is unregistered cohabitation.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Tamil Nadu is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Tamil Nadu is legal, but requires surgery.
Under section 6 of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, a trans person may apply to be issued a certificate of identity that certifies that they are transgender (denoted as "Transgender"). Upon receiving this certificate, the applicants have the right to be recorded as transgender in all official documents.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Tamil Nadu is recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Tamil Nadu is gender identity only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Tamil Nadu is gender identity only.
Same-sex adoption in Tamil Nadu is single only.
Serving openly in military in Tamil Nadu is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Tamil Nadu is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Tamil Nadu is varies by region.
Equal age of consent in Tamil Nadu is equal.