- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Fine as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Šiauliu Apskritis is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Šiauliu Apskritis is banned.
A court in 2023 stated that a same-sex couple who married abroad cannot register their marriage.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Šiauliu Apskritis is fine as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Šiauliu Apskritis is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
It was proposed to eliminate this provision in 2009, and once again in 2013.
In April 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ruled, in A.P., Garçon and Nicot v. France, that it is discriminatory and a human rights violation to require transgender people to undergo surgery to alter their official documents. Subsequently, two Lithuanian trans men were allowed by Lithuanian courts to change their gender on their official documents without them undergoing surgery beforehand. Lithuanian LGBT groups are now calling on future legislation scrapping the requirement for surgery to be introduced.
Effective from February 2, 2022, transgender individuals within Lithuania who want to change their legal name and/or sex can do so legally without sex reassignment surgery under new justice regulations. However, trans people who wish to change their name on official documents will still have to obtain a certificate from a Lithuanian or EU healthcare establishment of “diagnosed transgenderism”
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Šiauliu Apskritis is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Šiauliu Apskritis is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Šiauliu Apskritis is sexual orientation only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Šiauliu Apskritis is sexual orientation only.
Same-sex adoption in Šiauliu Apskritis is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Šiauliu Apskritis is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Šiauliu Apskritis is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Šiauliu Apskritis is legal.
Conversion therapy in Šiauliu Apskritis is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Šiauliu Apskritis is equal.
Art 151 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code.