- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Civil unions (limited rights)
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Ambiguous
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Shanghai is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Shanghai is civil unions (limited rights).
Additionally, Beijing provides dependent residency status to foreign same-sex couples since the 1st of July 2013.
In Hong Kong, several court decisions and most notably court case Leung Chun Kwong v Secretary for the Civil Service granted same-sex couples limited rights and benefits in the realm of immigration, tax rights and inheritance.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Shanghai is state-enforced.
A Chinese broadcaster, Mango TV, which broadcasts Eurovision blurred a rainbow flag during the semi-final of the show.
In April of 2022, a few lines of dialog were removed from the Chinese release of the film 'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.' The dialog referenced the gay romance between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald.
In August of 2023, Chinese officials removed an LGBTQ song from the set list of popular Taiwanese pop star A-Mei, ahead of her concert in Beijing. Security guards at the event forced fans to remove rainbow symbols and clothing. On the 22nd of August, Chinese officials shut down a handful of popular social media accounts on the Chinese social networking service WeChat.
Right to change legal gender in Shanghai is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Shanghai is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Shanghai is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Shanghai is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Shanghai is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Shanghai is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Shanghai is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Shanghai is ambiguous.
Serving openly in military in Shanghai is ambiguous.
Transgender people are banned from serving in the Chinese military.
Blood donations by MSMs in Shanghai is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Shanghai is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Shanghai is equal.