Gender-affirming care: Legal from (unknown) to Dec 18, 2025.
Informed consent for HRT was adopted nationwide during 2023 as according to the Primary Care Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy Initiation Guidelines (2023 - Aotearoa New Zealand). This guides GPs on…
Homosexual activity: Illegal (up to life in prison as punishment) from Mar 28, 2025 to (none).
The Criminal Offences Act 2025, outlaws homosexuality under articles 122, 123 and 124. For "unnatural offences" and "attempts to commit unnatural offences" the punishments are for a…
Homosexual activity: Illegal (imprisonment as punishment) from 1903 to Jan 1, 1957.
In 1903, King Rama V introduced punishments for homosexuality in order to look modern to Western observers. The punishment was fines and/or imprisonment. However, the law seems to have not been…
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires medical diagnosis from Oct 6, 2025 to (none).
On October 6, 2025, the Kansas Supreme Court declined Attorney General Kris Kobach’s petition to review his lawsuit against the Kansas Department of Revenue, which challenged the department’s…
Right to change legal gender: Illegal from Jul 1, 2023 to Oct 5, 2025.
Kansas passed a new law making it impossible to change one's gender marker on legal documents, be it driver's licenses or birth certificates.
Any documents previously changed would be…
Homosexual activity: Varies by Region from (unknown) to Jun 25, 2003.
Before Lawrence v. Texas, a majority of states had already decriminalized homosexuality. The first state was Illinois in 1962, and an additional 36 states and Washington, D.C. followed suit before…
"Reverting to revision #58926: should not be federal because different states legalized it at different times before 2003"
Homosexual activity: Legal from Jun 26, 2003 to (none).
Homosexuality was decriminalized at the federal level in the United States through the landmark Supreme Court decision of Lawrence v. Texas in 2003. The court struck down a Texas statute that…
Same-sex adoption: Legal from Jan 1, 2024 to (none).
Estonia's parliament approved a law to legalise same-sex marriage as well as joint adoption by same-sex couples. The law took effect on January 1, 2024.
Equal age of consent: Equal from (unknown) to Aug 31, 2025.
Before 2025, homosexuality was legal in Burkina Faso, and there were no discrepancies between the age of consent for heterosexual sex and homosexual sex.
Homosexual activity: Illegal (imprisonment as punishment) from Sep 1, 2025 to (none).
In September 2025, Burkina Faso’s Transitional Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a law criminalizing homosexuality with punishments of between two to five years in prison and fines. The…
Intersex infant surgery: Not banned from (unknown) to (none).
In Monaco, unnecessary genital “normalization” surgery on intersex infants is not banned; there are no reports of efforts taken by medical associations or the government to limit such procedures.