- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Civil unions (limited rights)
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but restricted for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Pafos is legal.
Current status
Since May 21, 1998
Legal
Homosexuality legalised following the European Court of Human Rights case of Modinos v. Cyprus.
Same-sex marriage in Pafos is civil unions (limited rights).
Censorship of LGBT issues in Pafos is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Cyprus, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Pafos is legal, no restrictions.
Current status
Since Nov 23, 2022
Legal, no restrictions
Since November 23rd, 2022, trans people in Cyprus can update their legal gender simply by applying online. While they can submit medical documentation if they think that would support their demand, there is no obligation to do so. A person must be at least 18 years old to request this change.
Gender-affirming care in Pafos is legal, but restricted for minors.
Current status
Legal, but restricted for minors
Gender-affirming care is legal in Cyprus but puberty blockers are not provided for trans youth.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Pafos is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
There's no legal recognition of non-binary gender in Cyprus.
Hate crime protections in Pafos is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since 2017
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Article 35A
The Court, in the context of the exercise of its powers when imposing the penalty, may take into account as an aggravating factor the motivation of prejudice against a group of persons or a member of such a group of persons on the basis of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, religion or other belief, descent, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Article 99A
Any person who intentionally, publicly and in a manner of a threatening or abusive or offensive urges or incites, orally or through the press or with written texts or illustrations or in any other way, violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of a group of persons determined on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity, is guilty of an offense.
The Court, in the context of the exercise of its powers when imposing the penalty, may take into account as an aggravating factor the motivation of prejudice against a group of persons or a member of such a group of persons on the basis of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, religion or other belief, descent, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Article 99A
Any person who intentionally, publicly and in a manner of a threatening or abusive or offensive urges or incites, orally or through the press or with written texts or illustrations or in any other way, violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of a group of persons determined on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity, is guilty of an offense.
LGBT housing discrimination in Pafos is no protections.
Current status
No protections
There is no protections for sexuality orientation and gender identity against housing discrimination in Cyprus.
Serving openly in military in Pafos is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
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