- 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
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in West Bengal is legal.
Since Sep 6, 2018
Same-sex marriage in West Bengal is unregistered cohabitation.
Since Oct 17, 2023
Censorship of LGBT Issues in West Bengal is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in West Bengal is legal, but requires surgery.
Since Dec 5, 2019
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 West Bengal is recognized.
Since Apr 15, 2014
LGBT employment discrimination in West Bengal is gender identity only.
Since Jan 2020
LGBT housing discrimination in West Bengal is gender identity only.
Since Jan 2020
Same-sex adoption in West Bengal is single only.
Serving openly in military in West Bengal is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in West Bengal is banned (indefinite deferral).
Since 2017
Conversion therapy in West Bengal is banned.
Since Jun 7, 2021
Until Jun 7, 2021
Equal age of consent in West Bengal is equal.
Since Sep 6, 2018