- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but banned for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Kentucky is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Kentucky is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Kentucky is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Kentucky is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Kentucky is legal, but banned for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kentucky is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Kentucky is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Kentucky is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Kentucky is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Kentucky is legal.
Single adoption, joint adoption for married couples and second parent adoption for married couples are all allowed for LGBT people.
In Kentucky, businesses can discriminate against LGBT people on the basis of religion. While it is unclear if this also applies to adoption agencies, such a case has been brought up in court and ended up with the judge resigning.
Second-parent adoption had been permitted, but is not now considered unlawful following the appellate court ruling in S.J.L.S. v. T.L.S., 265 S.W.3.d 804 (Ky. App. 2008).
Intersex infant surgery in Kentucky is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Kentucky is legal.
A year after the ban was lifted, Admiral Levine was sworn into being a Admiral being the first transgender woman to hold a high rank in the Navy and in Cabinet.
Blood donations by MSMs in Kentucky is legal.
Conversion therapy in Kentucky is banned.
Equal age of consent in Kentucky is equal.