- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unregistered cohabitation
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- 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
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Maharashtra is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Maharashtra is unregistered cohabitation.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Maharashtra is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Maharashtra 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.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Maharashtra is recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Maharashtra is gender identity only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Maharashtra is gender identity only.
Same-sex adoption in Maharashtra is single only.
Serving openly in military in Maharashtra is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Maharashtra is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Maharashtra is banned.
Equal age of consent in Maharashtra is equal.