- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Ambiguous
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Suggest Public Opinion Data
Public Opinion
Acceptance of homosexuals as neighbors ?
Ranked #66 out of 79 regions surveyed. (Source: World Values Survey, 2017-2020)
(73.4%) Mentioned homosexuals
Did not mention homosexuals (26.6%)
Justifiability of homosexuality ?
Ranked #57 out of 79 regions surveyed. (Source: World Values Survey, 2017-2020)
(70.8%) Not justifiable
Justifiable (5%)
Opinion on same-sex couples as parents ?
Ranked #50 out of 74 regions surveyed. (Source: World Values Survey, 2017-2020)
(55.9%) Disagree
Agree (15.6%)
Support for same-sex marriage in Central and Eastern Europe ?
Ranked #15 out of 19 regions surveyed. (Source: Pew Research Center, June 2015-July 2016)
(89%) Oppose
Favor (7%)
"Should society accept homosexuality?" (2016, Eastern/Central Europe) ?
Ranked #14 out of 19 regions surveyed. (Source: Pew Research Center, June 2015-July 2016)
(85%) No
Yes (7%)
Perceived Acceptance of Gay People ?
Ranked #71 out of 119 regions surveyed. (Source: Gallup, 2013)
(49%) Not a good place
Good place (9%)
By The Numbers
74%
of Orthodox Christians support the Church's position on refusing to perform same-sex marriages
14%
oppose
(Pew Research Center, 2017)
History
Homosexual activity in Kazakhstan is legal.
Current status
Since Jul 16, 1997
Since Jul 16, 1997
Legal
Same-sex marriage in Kazakhstan is not legal.
Current status
Not legal
The Constitution described marriage as an union between a man and a woman
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Kazakhstan is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Kazakhstan, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Kazakhstan is legal, but requires surgery.
Current status
Since 2022
Since 2022
Legal, but requires surgery
surgery required
Legal, but requires surgery
Since 2003, Transgender individuals have been allowed to change legal gender in Kazakhstan. People who wanted to change their gender had to receive a diagnosis of "gender identity disorder" involving several medical tests and a 30-day psychiatric evaluation. In 2011, new guidelines were established and allowed change to identity documents only after sex reassignment surgery, physical and psychiatric medical examinations, hormone therapy and sterilization. Additionally, people under 21 are not allowed to change their gender on their official identity documents.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kazakhstan is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
Kazakhstan lacks a third gender option, and has yet to do so
LGBT housing discrimination in Kazakhstan is no protections.
Current status
Since Dec 16, 1991
Since Dec 16, 1991
No protections
old one was fake
Blood donations by MSMs in Kazakhstan is legal.
Current status
Legal
No restrictions.
Conversion therapy in Kazakhstan is ambiguous.
Current status
Since Dec 25, 1991
Since Dec 25, 1991
Ambiguous
It is neither banned nor legalized
Equal age of consent in Kazakhstan is equal.
Current status
Since Jul 16, 1997
Since Jul 16, 1997
Equal
The law sets the age of consent as 16 for all sexual activities ("sodomy and "lesbianism" included explicitly.)
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