- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- Ambiguous
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
According to recent survey data, there appears to be strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan Surveys
Orthodox Christian Support for Church's Position of Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage
History
Same-sex marriage in Kazakhstan is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Kazakhstan is state-enforced.
Since Feb 13, 2024
Right to change legal gender in Kazakhstan is legal, but requires surgery.
Since 2011
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kazakhstan is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Kazakhstan is no protections.
According to the Constitution, any kind of discrimination is illegal as long as a person is considered a competent citizen. (Article 14 of the Constitution).
LGBT employment discrimination in Kazakhstan is no protections.
According to the Constitution, any kind of discrimination is illegal, but neither sexuality nor gender identity is included explicitly.
The official list of mental illnesses of the Republic of Kazakhstan does not include either sexuality or gender identity. And therefore, since a person does not have any reason to be considered incompetent, they should have the right to be employed (Article 24 of the Constitution).
LGBT housing discrimination in Kazakhstan is no protections.
According to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the people's right to housing shall not be violable (Article 25 of the Constitution). And even though neither sexual orientation nor gender identity is included into the protected categories of people from discrimination explicitly, as neither of them is viewed as a mental illness in Kazakhstan, a non-cishet person may not be considered incompetent, and therefore, their rights to housing may not be discriminated against.
Same-sex adoption in Kazakhstan is ambiguous.
Since Dec 16, 1991
Until Dec 16, 1991
Serving openly in military in Kazakhstan is legal.
Since Feb 25, 2022
Blood donations by MSMs in Kazakhstan is legal.
Conversion therapy in Kazakhstan is not banned.
Since Aug 25, 1991
Equal age of consent in Kazakhstan is equal.
Since Jul 16, 1997
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Kazakhstan.
- Ongtüstik Qazaqstan oblysy
- Pavlodar oblysy
- Qaraghandy oblysy
- Qostanay oblysy
- Qyzylorda oblysy
- Shyghys Qazaqstan oblysy
- Soltüstik Qazaqstan oblysy
- Zhambyl oblysy
- Almaty (city)
- Astana (city)
- Bayqongyr (city)