- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Tighina is legal.
Current status
Since Jul 10, 1995
Legal
In 1995, Moldova decriminalised homosexuality. This also applies in Tighina.
Male illegal, female legal under federal Moldova law
An article under which sodomy was punishable by imprisonment from 5 to 8 years appeared in the Soviet Criminal Code on March 7, 1934 - number 154-a: “Sexual intercourse between a man and a man (sodomy) - imprisonment for a term of three to five years. Sodomy committed with the use of violence or taking advantage of the dependent position of the victim - imprisonment for a term of five to eight years."
Right to change legal gender in Tighina is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Current status
Since Apr 26, 2001
Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
Transgender people are allowed to change their legal name and gender on official documents in Moldova, but require a psychiatric diagnosis confirming their "transgenderism" to do so. This also applies in Tighina.
Gender-affirming care in Tighina is legal.
Current status
Legal
As is the case for the rest of Moldova, gender-affirming care is legal in Tighina. but often difficult to access in practice.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Tighina is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT employment discrimination in Tighina is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in Tighina is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Intersex infant surgery in Tighina is not banned.
Current status
Not banned under federal Moldova law
There is no official ban on unnecessary sex reassignment operations in infants in Moldova.
Serving openly in military in Tighina is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Blood donations by MSMs in Tighina is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
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