- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Fine as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Same-sex marriage in Lithuania is banned.
A court in 2023 stated that a same-sex couple who married abroad cannot register their marriage.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Lithuania is fine as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Lithuania is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
It was proposed to eliminate this provision in 2009, and once again in 2013.
In April 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ruled, in A.P., Garçon and Nicot v. France, that it is discriminatory and a human rights violation to require transgender people to undergo surgery to alter their official documents. Subsequently, two Lithuanian trans men were allowed by Lithuanian courts to change their gender on their official documents without them undergoing surgery beforehand. Lithuanian LGBT groups are now calling on future legislation scrapping the requirement for surgery to be introduced.
Effective from February 2, 2022, transgender individuals within Lithuania who want to change their legal name and/or sex can do so legally without sex reassignment surgery under new justice regulations. However, trans people who wish to change their name on official documents will still have to obtain a certificate from a Lithuanian or EU healthcare establishment of “diagnosed transgenderism”
Gender-Affirming Care in Lithuania is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Lithuania is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Lithuania is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Lithuania is sexual orientation only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Lithuania is sexual orientation only.
Same-sex adoption in Lithuania is single only.
Serving openly in military in Lithuania is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Intersex infant surgery in Lithuania is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Lithuania is legal.
Conversion therapy in Lithuania is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Lithuania is equal.
LGBT Rights by County
View the LGBT laws in each individual county of Lithuania.