- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✖ Not legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Illegal
- Discrimination✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination✖ No protections
- Housing DiscriminationVaries by Region
- Military✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Conversion Therapy✔ Banned
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Unregistered cohabitation
Recognized for some limited purposes in Beijing. Civil Unions pending. Their was a symbolic First Gay marriage in China in 2009. As well as in Beijing.
Gay unions and gay marriage pending in Hong Kong. Foreign marriage recognition in Hong Kong.
Gay unions and gay marriage pending in Hong Kong. Foreign marriage recognition in Hong Kong.
Current status
(since Dec 4, 1982)
(since Dec 4, 1982)
Not legal
There are no laws in China recognizing same-sex relationships or marriage.
Current status
Legal, but requires surgery
"Sex change operation technical management standard" allows surgeries, and "Reply on household registration change gender related issues after the project's citizens Transsexual" by the Police Ministry allowed the legal gender to be changed.
Varies by Region
Single nationwide. but laws might be pending for same sex couples in some areas.
Current status
(since Dec 4, 1982)
(since Dec 4, 1982)
Illegal
The China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) does not allow same-sex couples to adopt, nor does it allow foreign same-sex couples to adopt a baby from China.
Varies by Region
Some discrimination protections in certain regions of China. Currently a lawsuit is under way to get some discrimination protections in another region.
Current status
No protections
Under Chinese Labour Law, there are no protections specifically protecting LGBT people.
Current status
(since Oct 1, 1949)
(since Oct 1, 1949)
Equal
The age of consent in China is 14 for both same-sex and opposite sex couples.
Current status
(since Dec 19, 2014)
(since Dec 19, 2014)
Banned
Though the practice is still widespread throughout China, a Beijing court ruled conversion therapy illegal.
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