- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Public Opinion
Research in attittudes towards LGBTQ+ issues in Georgia have identified a strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting underlying homophobic sentiments.
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Survey results from 10 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Georgia.
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Culture
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History
Same-sex marriage in Georgia is banned.
Current status
Banned
The civil code of Georgia defines marriage as a union strictly between a man and woman.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Georgia is state-enforced.
Current status
Since Sep 17, 2024
State-enforced
Georgia’s new anti-LGBTQ+ law bans Pride events, rainbow flags, and allows censorship of LGBTQ+ content in media.
Until Sep 17, 2024
No censorship
In Georgia, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Georgia is illegal.
Current status
Since Sep 17, 2024
Illegal
Georgia recently passed strict anti-LGBTQ+ legislation banning gender changes on official documents
Legal, but requires surgery
Since 2008, transgender people in Georgia can change documents and personal names to reflect their preferred gender after having undergone sex reassignment surgery.
Legal, but requires surgery
Georgia was part of the Soviet Union during 1972 when the first sex change was performed and a trans man was granted legal gender recognition after completing surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Georgia is banned.
Current status
Since Sep 17, 2024
Banned
Georgia’s new law bans gender-affirming care, blocking all medical treatments related to gender transition.
Legal, but restricted for minors
In 1983, transsexualism began to be professionally diagnosed in the Soviet Union, which allowed the prescription of hormone therapy.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Georgia is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
According to the ILGA Europe, there's no recognition of non-binary gender in Georgia.
LGBT discrimination in Georgia is illegal.
Current status
Since May 7, 2014
Illegal
On May 7th, Georgia's landmark anti-discrimination law came into effect. It was passed to be granted a short-term visa-free regime by the European Union and passed despite strong internal pressure against it.
LGBT employment discrimination in Georgia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2014
Sexual orientation and gender identity
According ILGA
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LGBT housing discrimination in Georgia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2014
Sexual orientation and gender identity
According ILGA
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Same-sex adoption in Georgia is illegal.
Current status
Since Nov 16, 2024
Illegal
In September 2024, a law passed in Georgia explicitly banning gay and trans people from adopting children, even as singles under the Law of Georgia on the Protection of Family Values and Minors. It took effect 60 days later.
Until Nov 15, 2024
Single only
Both single individuals and married heterosexual couples can adopt. The Civil Code of Georgia defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Accordingly, same-sex married couples cannot adopt in Georgia. However, here is no prohibition against adoption based on the sexual orientation of an unmarried prospective adoptive parent.
Intersex infant surgery in Georgia is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
There is no official ban on unnecessary sex reassignment operations in infants in Georgia.
Serving openly in military in Georgia is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Current status
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
Only 22 countries allow trans military service, Georgia is not one of them
Blood donations by MSMs in Georgia is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Conversion therapy in Georgia is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
There is no ban on conversion therapy in the country of Georgia.
Equal age of consent in Georgia is equal.
Current status
Since Feb 15, 2000
Equal
According to article 140 and 141 of the Georgian Penal Code, the age of consent for both homosexual and heterosexual sex is 16.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Georgia.
- Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
- Samtskhe-Javakheti
- Shida Kartli
- Abkhazia (Autonomous Republic)
- Ajaria (Autonomous Republic)
- Tbilisi (City)
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