- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- 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 Saga is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Saga is unrecognized.
Since Sep 9, 2018
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Saga is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Saga 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 Saga 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 Saga is no protections.
Since Jun 23, 2023
Until Jun 22, 2023
LGBT employment discrimination in Saga is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Saga is no protections.
Since 2018
However, the Human Rights Committee report states that in reality, "municipalities decide who can rent public houses under the amended Public Housing Law and few municipal policies allow same-sex couples to qualify. Thus, in practice same-sex couples remain excluded from public housing."
Same-sex adoption in Saga 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 Saga is legal.
Since May 3, 1947
Blood donations by MSMs in Saga is banned (6-month deferral).
Since Apr 1, 2011
Conversion therapy in Saga is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Saga is equal.
Since May 3, 1947