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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Civil unions (marriage rights)
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Adoption
- ✖ Step-child adoption only
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Pavia is legal.
Current status
Since 1890
Legal
No laws against homosexual relationships anywhere in Italy's Penal Code
Same-sex marriage in Pavia is civil unions (marriage rights).
Current status
Since May 11, 2016
Civil unions (marriage rights)
Italy's parliament has backed same-sex civil unions. MPs in the lower house voted 372-51 for the government, ensuring that the civil unions bill will become law. Under Italian law a same sex couple in a civil union have all the of the rights and the obligations of marriage except for the right to jointly adopt a child.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Pavia is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Italy, there are no laws restricting to discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Pavia is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Current status
Since Jul 23, 2015
Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
A Supreme Court decision overruled the surgery requirement to change one's legal gender.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Pavia is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
Italy does not yet legally recognize non-binary identities.
However, a breaking decision on March 7, 2022, had the Italian court rule in favor of a non-binary person to have their gender recognized.
They are currently the only example of this recognition.
However, a breaking decision on March 7, 2022, had the Italian court rule in favor of a non-binary person to have their gender recognized.
They are currently the only example of this recognition.
LGBT discrimination in Pavia is varies by region.
Current status
Since Mar 1, 2004
Varies by Region
In Tuscany, Piedmont, Liguria, Marche, Umbria, Sicily, Emilia-Romagna and Campania discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is banned.
LGBT employment discrimination in Pavia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Pavia is varies by region.
Current status
Since Mar 23, 2016
Varies by Region
In Tuscany, Piedmont, Liguria, Marche, Umbria, Sicily, Emilia-Romagna and Campania housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is banned
Same-sex adoption in Pavia is step-child adoption only.
Current status
Since Jun 22, 2016
Step-child adoption only
On June 22, 2016 the Court of Cassation stated that same sex couples in a civil union should be able to adopt their partner’s child for the child’s best interest. Same-sex couples can also apply for foster care since no law prohibits it.
Ambiguous
Some courts have recognized foreign joint adoption. Some receptions are also made for step-children. Gay adoption legalizing pending.
Serving openly in military in Pavia is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 1986
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
Until 1986, "sexual deviance" was a reason for exclusion for military service. At that time, some men claimed to be homosexual to avoid the draft. Lesbians have never been banned from the Italian military since women were first allowed to serve in 2000. Since 2010, discrimination against gays and lesbians in military service is banned, but the situation for transgender people is unclear. The organization Polis Aperta estimates that 5 to 10% of Italians in uniformed service (military or police) are LGB. Despite the ban on discrimination, some service personnel unfortunately face harassment or violence because of their sexual orientation. Unfortunately transgenders have not yet gained the right to military service in Italy
Blood donations by MSMs in Pavia is legal.
Current status
Since 2001
Legal
Italy uses a risk-based donor selection system that treats MSM and heterosexual partners equally.
Ambiguous
Italy legalizes blood donations as Health Minister lifts blood ban. However, Italy still denies men who engaged in "risky behaviors"
Conversion therapy in Pavia is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Not banned by the law. However, the national psychological association officially stated in 2013 that conversion therapy goes strictly against its code of ethics and therefore is not allowed.
Equal age of consent in Pavia is equal.
Current status
Equal
Age of consent: 14
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