- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭Varies by Region
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- Ambiguous
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (6-month deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Kagawa is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Kagawa is varies by region.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Kagawa is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Kagawa is legal, but requires surgery.
On October 16th 2023, a Japanese transgender man won his case in court to allow him to change his legal gender without sterilization. The law was deemed unconstitutional. It remains to be seen what changes will be made to the law and when they will come in effect.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kagawa is not legally recognized.
However, the city of Yokosuka recognizes the relationships of people of all genders, including "x-gender", the common term for non-binary in Japan.
LGBT discrimination in Kagawa is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Kagawa is varies by region.
Companies in Japan consisting of ten or more employees are required to establish work regulations. In January 2018, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare revised the Model Rules of Employment which "stands as the example framework for work regulations", to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and "gender identification". Article 15 reads:
In addition to what are provided for from Article 12 to the preceding paragraph, employees are prohibited from any other forms of harassment at the workplace that are damaging to the work environment of other employees such as by way of speech or behaviour related to sexual orientation or gender identification.
LGBT housing discrimination in Kagawa is sexual orientation and gender identity.
In February 2018, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare created provisions addressing discrimination in housing, stating that "consideration must be taken to not deny lodging on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity."
Same-sex adoption in Kagawa is ambiguous.
It was reported in 2016 that many same-sex couples have been rejected by public authorities and are told “Children will never be fostered” by same-sex couples and “couples of friends are not accepted.”
There is however one documented case from 2016 of same-sex foster parents in Osaka.
Intersex infant surgery in Kagawa is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Kagawa is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Kagawa is banned (6-month deferral).
Conversion therapy in Kagawa is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Kagawa is equal.