- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal with restrictions
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in Santa Cruz is banned.
Article 1587 of the Civil Code states that "A marriage contracted by two people of the same sex is legally non-existent."
Censorship of LGBT issues in Santa Cruz is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Santa Cruz is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Santa Cruz is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Santa Cruz is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Santa Cruz is sexual orientation and gender identity.
the penalty shall be imprisonment for 15 to 30 years when the circumstances of the case reveal a marked degree of illegality of the act or guilt of the culprit, and the homicide is motivated by racial, religious or political hate, or by the sexual orientation or gender identity of the victim.
LGBT discrimination in Santa Cruz is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Santa Cruz is sexual orientation only.
Intersex infant surgery in Santa Cruz is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Santa Cruz is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Santa Cruz is legal with restrictions.
Conversion therapy in Santa Cruz is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Santa Cruz is equal.