- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✖ Not legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Single only
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✔ Legal
- Conversion TherapyAmbiguous
History
Current status
Legal, but requires surgery
Requires sterilization. Ruled not legal by EU. Changes pending. Missing non binary options on documents.
Current status
(since Oct 2, 2017)
(since Oct 2, 2017)
Single only
Legalization pending.
Current status
(since Sep 30, 2003)
(since Sep 30, 2003)
Illegal
Current status
(since Sep 30, 2003)
(since Sep 30, 2003)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
No
Current status
(since Sep 30, 2003)
(since Sep 30, 2003)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
No
Current status
(since Aug 1, 2004)
(since Aug 1, 2004)
Legal
Bulgaria provides protection against discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in the fields of employment, health care, and education, recruitment to the military, housing, accommodation, and a range of services available to the public
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2002)
(since Jan 1, 2002)
Equal
No
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