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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Surat Thani is legal.
Current status
Since 1956
Since 1956
Legal
Same-sex marriage in Surat Thani is unrecognized.
Current status
Unrecognized
Thailand currently does not recognize gay marriages. Legal gay marriage pending.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Surat Thani is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Thailand, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Surat Thani is legal, surgery not required.
Current status
Ambiguous
In July 2019, a proposal to regulate sex changes for transgender individuals was presented to the National Assembly. Among others, the proposed bill would allow those who have undergone sex reassignment surgery to change their legal gender on official documents. It also covers name changes, marriage rights and military conscription.
Current status
N/A
Sex reassignment surgery is legal in Thailand, however Thai law does not allow for gender to be changed on legal documents such as ID. Date shown is when Thailand became a constitutional monarchy.
Current status
Legal, surgery not required
Thailand is known to host a large transgender population in the world for sex change surgery and it is one of the most tolerant cultures. Every year, the number of international patients travelling to Thailand to undergo sex reassignment surgery continues to increase.
Until Dec 8, 1999
Ambiguous
No laws in place to legally change sex
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Surat Thani is not legally recognized.
Current status
Ambiguous
In Thailand, khatoeys (ladies-boys) are considered in different ways by the khatoeys themselves and by members of the public. The researcher Sam Winter informs that the Thai public sees them 50% as men with a female spirit, 35% as a third sex and 15% as women born in a male body. As for khatoeys, they define themselves 45% as women, 36% as «a second kind of woman» and 11% as «khatoey» (non-human).
In 2004, the Chiang Mai School of Technology reserved a separate toilet space for khatoeys, showing on the door the intertwined male and female symbols. In the rest of the school, khatoeys must wear male clothing but can wear female haircuts.
In 2004, the Chiang Mai School of Technology reserved a separate toilet space for khatoeys, showing on the door the intertwined male and female symbols. In the rest of the school, khatoeys must wear male clothing but can wear female haircuts.
Current status
Not legally recognized
Thailand doesn't allow changing legal gender.
LGBT employment discrimination in Surat Thani is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jan 26, 2015
Since Jan 26, 2015
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under Thailand Criminal Code.
LGBT housing discrimination in Surat Thani is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jan 26, 2015
Since Jan 26, 2015
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under the revision of Thailand Criminal Code.
Same-sex adoption in Surat Thani is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
Adoption is only allowed for married couples, but same-sex marriage isn't allowed either.
Blood donations by MSMs in Surat Thani is banned (indefinite deferral).
Current status
Since 1977
Since 1977
Banned (indefinite deferral)
Date shown is when US banned gay male blood donations.
Conversion therapy in Surat Thani is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Not criminalized in Thailand.
Equal age of consent in Surat Thani is equal.
Current status
Since 1997
Since 1997
Equal
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