- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in South Gyeongsang is legal.
Article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Act penalizes "anal intercourse" and other so-called “indecent acts” in any military setting with up to two years in prison — and all able-bodied men must serve about two years in the military. No law criminalizes heterosexual intercourse in the South Korean military.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in South Gyeongsang is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in South Gyeongsang is legal, but requires surgery.
These guidelines include abusive or discriminatory requirements, such being at least 19 years old themselves, as well as being unmarried, diagnosed with “transsexualism” and having undergone hormone therapy and been sterilized.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in South Gyeongsang is unknown.
LGBT discrimination in South Gyeongsang is illegal in some contexts.
to obtaining permission from the family court under Article 104 of the Act on the Registration, Etc. of Family Relationships.
LGBT employment discrimination in South Gyeongsang is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in South Gyeongsang is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in South Gyeongsang is illegal.
Serving openly in military in South Gyeongsang is illegal.
However, there are some signs that restrictions on LGBTQ service members may be easing: In 2022, the South Korean Supreme Court overturned the conviction of two soldiers for gay sex, and in 2021, a district court posthumously reinstated a transgender soldier who died by suicide after being dismissed from the army.
Blood donations by MSMs in South Gyeongsang is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in South Gyeongsang is not banned.
Equal age of consent in South Gyeongsang is equal.