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- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Civil unions
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Adoption✔ Legal
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Employment DiscriminationSexual orientation only
- Military✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
History
Current status
(since Aug 16, 1971)
(since Aug 16, 1971)
Legal
Current status
(since 2004)
(since 2004)
Illegal
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2004)
(since Jan 1, 2004)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
No
Current status
(since Jun 24, 2002)
(since Jun 24, 2002)
Equal
The age of consent between people with maximum 5 years of difference is 14. Sexual contact between coetaneous is never punishable.
Current status
Not banned
only banned in few places in Europe. Conversion therapy ban pending.
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