- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Other type of partnership
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- Ambiguous
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (6-month deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Iwate is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Iwate is other type of partnership.
Since Oct 28, 2015
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Iwate is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Iwate is legal, but requires surgery.
Since Apr 1, 2022
On October 16th 2023, a Japanese transgender man won his case in court to allow him to change his legal gender without sterilization. The law was deemed unconstitutional. It remains to be seen what changes will be made to the law and when they will come in effect.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Iwate is not legally recognized.
However, the city of Yokosuka recognizes the relationships of people of all genders, including "x-gender", the common term for non-binary in Japan.
LGBT discrimination in Iwate is illegal.
Since 2018
Until 2018
LGBT employment discrimination in Iwate is varies by region.
Companies in Japan consisting of ten or more employees are required to establish work regulations. In January 2018, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare revised the Model Rules of Employment which "stands as the example framework for work regulations", to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and "gender identification". Article 15 reads:
In addition to what are provided for from Article 12 to the preceding paragraph, employees are prohibited from any other forms of harassment at the workplace that are damaging to the work environment of other employees such as by way of speech or behaviour related to sexual orientation or gender identification.
LGBT housing discrimination in Iwate is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since 2003
In February 2018, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare created provisions addressing discrimination in housing, stating that "consideration must be taken to not deny lodging on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity."
Same-sex adoption in Iwate is ambiguous.
It was reported in 2016 that many same-sex couples have been rejected by public authorities and are told “Children will never be fostered” by same-sex couples and “couples of friends are not accepted.”
There is however one documented case from 2016 of same-sex foster parents in Osaka.
Serving openly in military in Iwate is legal.
Since May 3, 1947
Blood donations by MSMs in Iwate is banned (6-month deferral).
Since Apr 1, 2011
Conversion therapy in Iwate is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Iwate is equal.
Since May 3, 1947