- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- 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 Saitama is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Saitama is unrecognized.
Since Sep 9, 2018
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Saitama is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Saitama is legal, but requires surgery.
Since Jan 2004
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Saitama 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 Saitama is illegal in some contexts.
Since 2023
LGBT employment discrimination in Saitama is varies by region.
LGBT housing discrimination in Saitama is no protections.
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 Saitama 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 Saitama is legal.
Since May 3, 1947
Blood donations by MSMs in Saitama is banned (6-month deferral).
Since Apr 1, 2011
Conversion therapy in Saitama is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Saitama is equal.
Since May 3, 1947