- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unregistered cohabitation
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Gender identity only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Gender identity only
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- Varies by Region
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Karnataka is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Karnataka is unregistered cohabitation.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Karnataka is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Karnataka is legal, but requires surgery.
Under section 6 of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, a trans person may apply to be issued a certificate of identity that certifies that they are transgender (denoted as "Transgender"). Upon receiving this certificate, the applicants have the right to be recorded as transgender in all official documents.
Gender-Affirming Care in Karnataka is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Karnataka is recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Karnataka is gender identity only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Karnataka is gender identity only.
Same-sex adoption in Karnataka is single only.
Serving openly in military in Karnataka is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Karnataka is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Karnataka is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Karnataka is varies by region.
Equal age of consent in Karnataka is equal.