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- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Adoption✖ Single only
- DiscriminationIllegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
History
Current status
Legal, surgery not required
Not required but provided by government. Missing non binary options on documents.
Current status
(since Oct 11, 2016)
(since Oct 11, 2016)
Single only
No restrictions. No laws in place for same sex couples. Legalization pending.
Current status
(since Dec 21, 2013)
(since Dec 21, 2013)
Illegal in some contexts
New non-discrimination law protects LGBT persons from discriminations in the workplace. Language does not strictly protects people of other gender identities however.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2013)
(since Jan 1, 2013)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under the Cuban Criminal Code.
Current status
(since Dec 21, 2013)
(since Dec 21, 2013)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under the election reform law.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 1979)
(since Jan 1, 1979)
Equal
No
Current status
(since Jan 1, 1979)
(since Jan 1, 1979)
Legal
every citizen is required to give blood in cuba.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2013)
(since Jan 1, 2013)
Not banned
According to ilga.org. Conversion therapy ban pending.
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